Competitions
Awards and Winners
IROS2018 Fan Robotic Challenge
Organizer: David Álvarez Sánchez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Winners:
1st Prize: IRIM Lab Koreatech – Youg-Jae Kim
2nd Prize: DLR Team ZLP – Manfred Schönheits
3rd Prize: Advanced Industrial Automation Laboratory, IIT – Giulia Persano
Organizers: Hyungpil Moon (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea), David Hyunchul Shim (KAIST, Korea), Si Jung Kim (University of Nevada, USA), Pascual Campoy (Universidad Politécnica de M
Winners:
1st Prize: Team Robotics and Perception Group (ETH Zurich, Swiss, ) with the record of 31.78 sec.
2nd Prize: Team USRG (KAIST, Korea) with the record of 1 min 1 sec.
3rd Prize: Team Maryland Paratroopers (Univ. of Maryland, USA) with the record of 1 min 30 sec.
4th Prize: Team DroneBot (UNIST, Korea) with the record of 1 min 34 sec
5th Prize: Team MAB-Lab (TU Delft, Netherlands) gate 5 at 9 sec
6th Prize: Team QuetzalC++(INAOE, Mexico) gate 5 at 1 min 30 sec
7th Prize: Team CVAR-UPM (UPM, Spain) gate 3 at 2 min 3 sec
European Robotics League: Consumer Service Robots, Major Tournament
Organizers: Pedro U. Lima (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal), Jordi Pages (PAL Robotics, Spain), Meysam Basiri (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
Winners:
Team PUMAS, Laboratory of Bio-Robótica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Reynaldo Bartell, Hugo León, Julio Cruz, Marco Negrete and Julio Martínez
Organizer: José María Cañas Plaza (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Winner:
Debrup Datta (Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Sri Sri University)
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)
Winners:
Team RoboticsSG (Nanyang Technological University, Panasonic R&D Singapore and Hand+Robotics) and: Group Tams (Hamburg University).
Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-free World
Organizers: Alaa Khamis (General Motors, Canada), Mohamed Aboud (Hadath for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Egypt)
Winners:
Junior Category:
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1st Prize: MAD team, Bolivia
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2nd Prize: Robo Stack, Egypt
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3rd Prize: Za3fran, Egypt
Academic Category:
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Auctoventa, Egypt
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Life Sentinel, Bolivia
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LSI, Spain
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CVRA, Switzerland
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Mind Coud, Egypt
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RAS-BAU, Jordan
Best Design Award:
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CVRA, Switzerland
Humanoid Robot Application Challenge - Robot Magic
Organizer: Jacky Baltes (National Taiwan Normal University, ROC)
Winners:
1st Prize: ZSTT-NTNU, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
2nd Prize: Snobots, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
3rd Prize: Sweaty, Hochschule Offenburg, Offenburg, Germany
MathWorks Mini Drone Competition
Organizer: Lauren Tabolinsky (MathWorks, USA)
Winners:
1st Prize: Team UNL-IIITD
2nd Prize: University of Moratuwa
3rd Prize: Madlab Drone
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)
Selected teams: