IROS JTCF Novel Technology Paper Award for Amusement Culture

• Responsive Joint Attention in Human-Robot Interaction [WINNER]
  André Pereira, Catharine Oertel, Leonor Fermoselle, Joe Mendelson, Joakim Gustafson
   
• Deep Dive into Faces: Pose & Illumination Invariant Multi-Face Emotion Recognition System
  Suchitra Saxena, Shikha Tripathi, Sudarshan T S B
   
• Enthusiastic Robots make Better Contact
  Elie Saad, Joost Broekens, Mark Neerincx, Koen Hindriks
   
• Entropic Risk Measure in Policy Search
  David Nass, Boris Belousov, Jan Peters
   

IROS RoboCup Best Paper Award

• Motion Decoupling and Composition via Reduced Order Model Optimization for Dynamic Humanoid Walking with CLF-QP based Active Force Control [WINNER]
  Xiaobin Xiong, Aaron Ames
   
• Early Fusion for Goal Directed Robotic Vision
  Aaron Walsman, Yonatan Bisk, Saadia Gabriel, Dipendra Misra, Yoav Artzi, Yejin Choi, Dieter Fox
   
• Advanced Autonomy on a Low-Cost Educational Drone Platform
  Luke Eller, Theo Guerin, Baichuan Huang, Garrett Warren, Sophie Yang, Josh Roy, Stefanie Tellex
   

IROS Best Paper Award on Cognitive Robotics sponsored by KROS

• Goal-Directed Behavior under Variational Predictive Coding: Dynamic Organization of Visual Attention and Working
  Minju Jung, Takazumi Matsumoto, Jun Tani
   
• Scaling Robot Supervision to Hundreds of Hours with RoboTurk: Robotic Manipulation Dataset through Human Reasoning and Dexterity
  Ajay Uday Mandlekar, Jonathan Booher, Max Spero, Albert Tung, Anchit Gupta, Yuke Zhu, Animesh Garg, Silvio Savarese, Li Fei-Fei
   
• Robot Learning via Human Adversarial Games
  Jiali Duan, Qian Wang, Lerrel Joseph Pinto, C.-C. Jay Kuo, Stefanos Nikolaidis
   
• Planning Beyond The Sensing Horizon Using a Learned Context [WINNER]
  Michael Everett, Justin Miller, Jonathan Patrick How
   
• Volumetric Instance-Aware Semantic Mapping and 3D Object Discovery
  Margarita Grinvald, Fadri Furrer, Tonci Novkovic, Jen Jen Chung, Cesar Cadena Lerma, Roland Siegwart, Juan Nieto
   

IROS Best Paper Award on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics in memory of Motohiro Kisoi

• Optimization Based Motion Planning for Multi-Limbed Vertical Climbing Robots [WINNER]
  Xuan Lin, Jingwen Zhang, Junjie Shen, Gabriel Ikaika Fernandez, Dennis Hong
   
• Landing of a Multirotor Aerial Vehicle on an Uneven Surface Using Multiple On-board Manipulators
  Hannibal Paul, Ryo Miyazaki, Robert Ladig, Kazuhiro Shimonomura
   
• Development of a Steel Bridge Climbing Robot
  Son Nguyen, Hung La
   
• FASTER: Fast and Safe Trajectory Planner for Flights in Unknown Environments
  Jesus Tordesillas Torres, Brett Lopez, Jonathan Patrick How
   
• Reconfiguration Motion Planning for Variable Topology Truss
  Chao Liu, Mark Yim
   

IROS ICROS Best Application Paper Award

• SVIn2: An Underwater SLAM System Using Sonar, Visual, Inertial, and Depth Sensor
  Sharmin Rahman, Alberto Quattrini Li, Ioannis Rekleitis
   
• Integer Programming As a General Solution Methodology for Path-Based Optimization in Robotics: Principles, Best Practices, and Applications
  Shuai D. Han, Jingjin Yu
   
• Mapping for Planetary Rovers from Terramechanics Perspective
  Ruyi Zhou, Liang Ding, Haibo Gao, Wenhao Feng, Zongquan Deng, Nan Li
   
• Flexible Layouts for Fiducial Tags
  Maximilian Krogius, Acshi Haggenmiller, Edwin Olson
   
• A Real-Time Dynamic Simulator and an Associated Front-End Representation Format for Simulating Complex Robots and Environments
  Adnan Munawar, Yan Wang, Radian Gondokaryono, Gregory Scott Fischer
   
• Visual Servoing of Miniature Magnetic Film Swimming Robots for 3D Arbitrary Path Following [WINNER]
  Chenyang Huang, Tiantian Xu, Jia Liu, Laliphat Manamanchaiyaporn, Xinyu Wu
   

IROS 2019 ABB Best Student Paper Award

• Integer Programming As a General Solution Methodology for Path-Based Optimization in Robotics: Principles, Best Practices, and Applications
  Shuai D. Han, Jingjin Yu
   
• Efficient and Guaranteed Planar Pose Graph Optimization Using the Complex Number Representation [WINNER]
  Taosha Fan, Hanlin Wang, Michael Rubenstein, Todd Murphey
   
• Development of a Steel Bridge Climbing Robot
  Son Nguyen, Hung La
   
• Flexible Layouts for Fiducial Tags
  Maximilian Krogius, Acshi Haggenmiller, Edwin Olson
   

IROS 2019 Best Paper Award

• Planning Reactive Manipulation in Dynamic Environments [WINNER]
  Philipp Sebastian Schmitt, Florian Wirnshofer, Kai M. Wurm, Georg v. Wichert, Wolfram Burgard
   
• Bounded-Error LQR-Trees
  Barrett Ames, George Konidaris
   
• Interaction-aware Decision Making with Adaptive Strategies under Merging Scenarios
  Yeping Hu, Alireza Nakhaei, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Kikuo Fujimura
   
• Bee+: A 95-mg Four-Winged Insect-Scale Flying Robot Driven by Twinned Unimorph Actuators
  Xiufeng Yang, Ying Chen, Longlong Chang, Ariel, A Calderon, Nestor O Perez-Arancibia

IROS Harashima Award for Innovative Technologies

Winner: Nancy M. Amato, University of Illinois, for fundamental contributions to innovative robot motion planning and advanced computing methods

IROS Distinguished Service Award

Winner: Ren C. Luo, National Taiwan University, for thirty years of outstanding contributions to the development of IROS

IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award

Winner: Mac Schwager, Stanford University, for contributions to the advancement of multi-robot systems

Winner: Takeshi Ando, Panasonic Corporation, for contributions to the deployment of service robots and assistive robots