List of Competitions, Challenges and Events (in order of submissions)
IROS2018 Fan Robotic Challenge
Organizer: Fernado Martín Monar (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Organizers: Hyungpil Moon (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea), David Hyunchul Shim (KAIST, Korea), Si Jung Kim (University of Nevada, USA), Pascual Campoy (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Industrial Robot Obstacle Race Competition
Organizers: Jesús Enrique Sierra García (ASTI, Spain), Felipe Espinosa (University of Alalá, Spain)
European Robotics League: Service Robots, Major Tournament
Organizers: Pedro U. Lima (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal), Jordi Pages (PAL Robotics, Spain)
Program-A-Robot Challenge
Organizer: José María Cañas Plaza (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
IROS Mobile Manipulation Hackathon
Organizers: Maximo A. Roa, (German Aerospace Center, Germany), Mehmet Dogar (University of Leeds, UK), Nikolaus Correll (University of Colorado, USA), Francesco Ferro (PAL Robotics, Spain), Carlos Vivas (PAL Robotics, Spain), Jordi Pages (PAL Robotics, Spain), Antonio Morales (Universidad Jaume I, Spain)
Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-free World
Organizers: Alaa Khamis (General Motors, Canada), Mohamed Aboud (Hadath for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Egypt)
Humanoid Robot Application Challenge - Robot Magic
Organizer: Jacky Baltes (National Taiwan Normal University, ROC)
MathWorks Mini Drone Competition
Organizer: Lauren Tabolinsky (MathWorks, USA)
Autonomous Vehicles Event
Organizers: Christian Laugier (INRIA, France), Philippe Martinet (INRIA, France), Christoph Stiller (Karlsruhe Institute of Tecnhnology, D), Urbano Nunes (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Miguel Angel Sotelo (University Alcala, Spain)
List of Competitions, Challenges and Events (in order of submissions)
IROS2018 Fan Robotic Challenge
Organizer: Fernado Martín Monar (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Organizers: Hyungpil Moon (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea), David Hyunchul Shim (KAIST, Korea), Si Jung Kim (University of Nevada, USA), Pascual Campoy (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Industrial Robot Obstacle Race Competition
Organizers: Jesús Enrique Sierra García (ASTI, Spain), Felipe Espinosa (University of Alalá, Spain)
European Robotics League: Service Robots, Major Tournament
Organizers: Pedro U. Lima (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal), Jordi Pages (PAL Robotics, Spain)
Program-A-Robot Challenge
Organizer: José María Cañas Plaza (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
IROS Mobile Manipulation Hackathon
Organizers: Maximo A. Roa, (German Aerospace Center, Germany), Mehmet Dogar (University of Leeds, UK), Nikolaus Correll (University of Colorado, USA), Francesco Ferro (PAL Robotics, Spain), Carlos Vivas (PAL Robotics, Spain), Jordi Pages (PAL Robotics, Spain), Antonio Morales (Universidad Jaume I, Spain)
Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-free World
Organizers: Alaa Khamis (General Motors, Canada), Mohamed Aboud (Hadath for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Egypt)
Humanoid Robot Application Challenge - Robot Magic
Organizer: Jacky Baltes (National Taiwan Normal University, ROC)
MathWorks Mini Drone Competition
Organizer: Lauren Tabolinsky (MathWorks, USA)
Autonomous Vehicles Event
Organizers: Christian Laugier (INRIA, France), Philippe Martinet (INRIA, France), Christoph Stiller (Karlsruhe Institute of Tecnhnology, D), Urbano Nunes (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Miguel Angel Sotelo (University Alcala, Spain)
List of Competitions, Challenges and Events (in order of submissions)
IROS2018 Fan Robotic Challenge
Organizer: Fernado Martín Monar (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Organizers: Hyungpil Moon (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea), David Hyunchul Shim (KAIST, Korea), Si Jung Kim (University of Nevada, USA), Pascual Campoy (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Industrial Robot Obstacle Race Competition
Organizers: Jesús Enrique Sierra García (ASTI, Spain), Felipe Espinosa (University of Alalá, Spain)
European Robotics League: Service Robots, Major Tournament
Organizers: Pedro U. Lima (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal), Jordi Pages (PAL Robotics, Spain)
Program-A-Robot Challenge
Organizer: José María Cañas Plaza (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
IROS Mobile Manipulation Hackathon
Organizers: Maximo A. Roa, (German Aerospace Center, Germany), Mehmet Dogar (University of Leeds, UK), Nikolaus Correll (University of Colorado, USA), Francesco Ferro (PAL Robotics, Spain), Carlos Vivas (PAL Robotics, Spain), Jordi Pages (PAL Robotics, Spain), Antonio Morales (Universidad Jaume I, Spain)
Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-free World
Organizers: Alaa Khamis (General Motors, Canada), Mohamed Aboud (Hadath for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Egypt)
Humanoid Robot Application Challenge - Robot Magic
Organizer: Jacky Baltes (National Taiwan Normal University, ROC)
MathWorks Mini Drone Competition
Organizer: Lauren Tabolinsky (MathWorks, USA)
Autonomous Vehicles Event
Organizers: Christian Laugier (INRIA, France), Philippe Martinet (INRIA, France), Christoph Stiller (Karlsruhe Institute of Tecnhnology, D), Urbano Nunes (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Miguel Angel Sotelo (University Alcala, Spain)
As the results of the reviews, 14 proposals had been accepted for the Special Session at the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot and Systems (IROS2018).
Each organizer collects at least 8 papers for each Special Session. They will be reviewed similar to the regular papers and only the accepted ones will be published in the IROS2018 Proceedings. The organizer will be invited to be the Chair of the Special Session and responsible for.
If the number of accepted papers is bigger than 8, papers will be allocated in two sessions and if necessary will be completed with regular papers of similar topic. Just in case that the number of accepted papers is less than 8, the papers will be reassigned to the other regular sessions according to the topic.
As the results of the reviews, 14 proposals had been accepted for the Special Session at the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot and Systems (IROS2018).
Each organizer collects at least 8 papers for each Special Session. They will be reviewed similar to the regular papers and only the accepted ones will be published in the IROS2018 Proceedings. The organizer will be invited to be the Chair of the Special Session and responsible for.
If the number of accepted papers is bigger than 8, papers will be allocated in two sessions and if necessary will be completed with regular papers of similar topic. Just in case that the number of accepted papers is less than 8, the papers will be reassigned to the other regular sessions according to the topic.
As the results of the reviews, 14 proposals had been accepted for the Special Session at the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot and Systems (IROS2018).
Each organizer collects at least 8 papers for each Special Session. They will be reviewed similar to the regular papers and only the accepted ones will be published in the IROS2018 Proceedings. The organizer will be invited to be the Chair of the Special Session and responsible for.
If the number of accepted papers is bigger than 8, papers will be allocated in two sessions and if necessary will be completed with regular papers of similar topic. Just in case that the number of accepted papers is less than 8, the papers will be reassigned to the other regular sessions according to the topic.
October, 1-5, 2018 Madrid, Spain
As a result of the reviews, 48 proposals have been accepted for the Workshops sessions at the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot and Systems (IROS2018). The workshops will be held on Monday, 1st October and Friday, 5th October, 2018. There are 33 full-day workshops and 15 half-day ones. Morning sessions are from 9:00 until 13:30, with a half-hour coffee break at 11:00. Afternoon sessions are from 14:30 until 19:00, with a half-hour coffee break at 16:30 (times to be confirmed).
Registration is required for the workshops, through the IROS2018 registration website. The workshop registration gives you access to all workshops (and tutorials) on both workshop/tutorials days (1st and 5th October). However, you need to select the workshops (and/or tutorials) of your interest from the list on the registration site. (Also note that the workshops might be re-numbered for better consistency in the final program).
As a result of the reviews, 48 proposals have been accepted for the Workshops sessions at the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot and Systems (IROS2018). The workshops will be held on Monday, 1st October and Friday, 5th October, 2018. There are 33 full-day workshops and 15 half-day ones. Morning sessions are from 9:00 until 13:30, with a half-hour coffee break at 11:00. Afternoon sessions are from 14:30 until 19:00, with a half-hour coffee break at 16:30 (times to be confirmed).
Registration is required for the workshops, through the IROS2018 registration website. The workshop registration gives you access to all workshops (and tutorials) on both workshop/tutorials days (1st and 5th October). However, you need to select the workshops (and/or tutorials) of your interest from the list on the registration site. (Also note that the workshops might be re-numbered for better consistency in the final program).
Awards
Conference Paper Award Finalists and Winners
IROS 2018 Best Paper Award, Finalists
Airborne Docking for Multi-Rotor Aerial Manipulations.
Ryo Miyazaki, Rui Jiang, Hannibal Paul, Koji Ono, Kazuhiro Shimonomura
Information Sparsification in Visual-Inertial Odometry.
Jerry Hsiung, Ming Hsiao, Eric Westman, Rafael Valencia, Michael Kaess
Robust Visual-Inertial State Estimation with Multiple Odometries and Efficient Mapping on an MAV with Ultra-Wide
FOV Stereo Vision.
M. G. Müller, F. Steidle, M. J. Schuster, P. Lutz, M. Maier, S. Stoneman, T. Tomic, W. Stürzl WINNER
Approximate Distributed Spatiotemporal Topic Models for Multi-Robot Terrain Characterization.
Kevin Doherty, Genevieve Flaspohler, Nicholas Roy, Yogesh Girdhar
Learning Image-Conditioned Dynamics Models for Control of Underactuated Legged Millirobots.
Anusha Nagabandi, Guangzhao Yang, Thomas Asmar, Ravi Pandya, Gregory Kahn, Sergey Levine, Ronald S. Fearing
Video Motion Capture from the Part Confidence Maps of Multi-Camera Images by Spatiotemporal Filtering Using
the Human Skeletal Model.
Takuya Ohashi, Yosuke Ikegami, Kazuki Yamamoto, Wataru Takano, Yoshihiko Nakamura
IROS 2018 ABB Best Student Paper Award, Finalists
Risk-Based Human-Aware Multi-Robot Coordination in Dynamic Environments Shared with Humans.
Zeynab Talebpour, (Alcherio Martinoli)
Online inference of human belief for cooperative robots.
Moritz C. Buehler, (Thomas H. Weisswange)
Online Temporal Calibration for Monocular Visual-Inertial Systems.
Tong Qin, (Shaojie Shen) WINNER
Indoor Mapping and Localization for Pedestrians using Opportunistic Sensing with Smartphones.
Qing Liang, (Lujia Wang, Youfu Li, Ming Liu)
Embedded and Controllable Shape Morphing with Twisted-and-Coiled Actuators.
Jiefeng Sun, (Ben Pawlowski, Jianguo Zhao)
Configuration Space Metrics.
Hong J. Jeon, (Anca D. Dragan)
JTCF Novel Technology Paper Award for Amusement Culture, 2018 Finalists
Classification of Hanging Garments Using Learned Features Extracted from 3D Point Clouds.
Jan Stria, Václav Hlaváč
City-Scale Road Audit System using Deep Learning.
Sudhir Yarram, Girish Varma, C.V. Jawahar
Real-Time Dance Generation to Music for a Legged Robot.
Thomas Bi, Péter Fankhauser, Dario Bellicoso, Marco Hutter WINNER
Hands and Faces, Fast: Mono-Camera User Detection Robust Enough to Directly Control a UAV in Flight.
Sepehr MohaimenianPour, Richard Vaughan WINNER
RoboCup Best Paper Award, 2018 Finalists
Robust Object Recognition Through Symbiotic Deep Learning In Mobile Robots.
João Cartucho, Rodrigo Ventura, Manuela Veloso
A Multimodal Classifier Generative Adversarial Network for Carry and Place Tasks from ambiguous Language Instructions.
Aly Magassouba, Komei Sugiura, Hisashi Kawai WINNER
Learning Implicit Sampling Distributions for Motion Planning.
Clark Zhang, Jinwook Huh, Daniel D. Lee
IROS Best Paper Award on Cognitive Robotics sponsored by KROS, 2018 Finalists
Persistent Anytime Learning of Objects from Unseen Classes.
Maximilian Denninger, Rudolph Triebel
Adaptive robot body learning and estimation through predictive coding.
Pablo Lanillos, Gordon Cheng
Human Motion Classification based on Multi-Modal Sensor Data for Lower Limb Exoskeletons.
Jonas Beil, Isabel Ehrenberger, Clara Scherer, Christian Mandery, Tamim Asfour
Comparison of Multimodal Heading and Pointing Gestures for Co-Located Mixed Reality Human-Robot Interaction.
Dennis Krupke, Frank Steinicke, Paul Lubos, Yannick Jonetzko, Michael Gorner, Jianwei Zhang
Learning Synergies between Pushing and Grasping with Self-supervised Deep Reinforcement Learning.
Andy Zeng, Shuran Song, Stefan Welker, Johnny Lee, Alberto Rodriguez, Thomas Funkhouser
Augmenting Physical Simulators with Stochastic Neural Networks: Case Study of Planar Pushing and Bouncing.
Anurag Ajay, Jiajun Wu, Nima Fazeli, Maria Bauza, Leslie P. Kaelbling, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Alberto Rodriguez WINNER
IROS Best Paper Award on Safety, Security, and Recue Robotics in memory of Motohiro Kisoi, 2018 Finalists
Human Motion Prediction Under Social Grouping Constraints.
Andrey Rudenko, Luigi Palmieri, Achim J. Lilienthal, Kai O. Arras
Fire-Aware Planning of Aerial Trajectories and Ignitions.
Evan Beachly, Carrick Detweiler, Sebastian Elbaum, Brittany Duncan, Carl Hildebrandt, Dirac Twidwell, Craig Allen WINNER
Humanoid Teleoperation using Task-Relevant Haptic Feedback.
Firas Abi-Farraj, Bernd Henze, Alexander Werner, Michael Panzirsch, Christian Ott, Máximo A. Roa
GONet: A Semi-Supervised Deep Learning Approach For Traversability Estimation.
Noriaki Hirose, Amir Sadeghian, Marynel Vázquez, Patrick Goebel, Silvio Savarese
IROS ICROS Best Application Paper Award, 2018 Finalists
Planning Hand-Arm Grasping Motions with Human-Like Appearance.
Néstor García, Raúl Suárez, Jan Rosell
Five-fingered Hand with Wide Range of Thumb Using Combination of Machined Springs and Variable Stiffness Joints.
Shogo Makino, Kento Kawaharazuka, Ayaka Fujii, Masaya Kawamura, Tasuku Makabe, Moritaka Onitsuka, Yuki Asano, Kei Okada, Koji Kawasaki, Masayuki Inaba
Robotic Sewing and Knot Tying for Personalized Stent Graft Manufacturing.
Yang Hu, Lin Zhang, Wei Li, Guang-Zhong Yang
Printing Strain Gauges on Intuitive Surgical da Vinci Robot End Effectors.
Rut Peña, Michael J. Smith, Nicolas P. Ontiveros, Frank L. Hammond III, Robert J. Wood
Closed-Loop Single-Beacon Passive Acoustic Navigation for Low-Cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicles.
Nicholas R. Rypkema, Erin M. Fischell, Henrik Schmidt WINNER
IROS awards winners in 2018
IROS Harashima Award for Innovative Technologies
WINNER:
Wolfram Burgard (University of Freiburg), for pioneering research in robot simultaneous localization and mapping.
IROS Distinguished Service Award
WINNER:
Anthony A. Maciejewski (Colorado State University), for leadership and service on the IROS Conference Paper Review Board.
WINNER:
Hong Zhang (University of Alberta), for leadership and distinguished service for IROS Conferences.
IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award
WINNER:
Ming Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), for outstanding contributions to mobile robot path planning and control.
IROS fellow in 2018: Prof. Tamio Arai
IEEE awards winners in 2018
IEEE Technical Field Award in Robotics & Automation: Matt Mason
IEEE RAS George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation: Bill Hamel