Awards

Congratulations to the following people!

Best Paper Award / Best Systems Paper Award in Memory of Seth Teller

• TARE: A Hierarchical Framework for Efficiently Exploring Complex 3D Environments Chao Cao, Hongbiao Zhu, Howie Choset, and Ji Zhang
  

Best Student Paper Award

• Learning Riemannian Manifolds for Geodesic Motion Skills Hadi Beik-mohammadi, Soren Hauberg; Georgios Arvanitidis, Gerhard Neumann, Leonel Rozo

• DiSECt: A Differentiable Simulation Engine for Autonomous Robotic Cutting Eric Heiden, Miles Macklin, Yashraj S Narang, Dieter Fox, Animesh Garg, Fabio Ramos
  

Outstanding Reviewer Award

• Lawson Wong

Best Paper Award Finalists

• Optimal Pose and Shape Estimation for Category-level 3D Object Perception Jingnan Shi, Heng Yang, and Luca Carlone

• Moving sidewinding forward: optimizing contact patterns for limbless robots via geometric mechanics Baxi Chong, Tianyu Wang, Bo Lin, Shengkai Li, Howie Choset, Grigoriy Blekherman, Daniel Goldman

• Toward Certifiable Motion Planning for Medical Steerable Needles Mengyu Fu, Oren Salzman, Ron Alterovitz