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KUKA Best Service Robotics
Paper Award
● "Autonomous Interactive Recognition and Unfolding of Clothes Using
Random Forests and Probabilistic
Planning," Andreas Doumanoglou,
Andreas Kargakos, Tae-Kyun Kim,
and Sotiris Malassiotis.
Best Manipulation Paper Award
● "Toward Parallel Continuum
Robots," Caroline E. Bryson and D.
Caleb Rucker.

(b)

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Figure 6. (a) and (b) The attendees enjoying the famous and stunning Victoria Harbor
night view during cocktails before the Conference Banquet.

Best Vision Paper Award
"D e n s e T h r e e - D i m e n s i o n a l
Semantic Mapping of Indoor Scenes
from RGB-D Images," Alexander
Hermans, Georgios Floros, and
Bastian Leibe.

●

Best Student Paper Award
"Automated Microrobotic Characterization of Cell-Cell Communication,"
Jun Liu, Vinayakumar Siragam,
Zheng Gong, Jun Chen, Clement
Leung, Zhe Lu, Changhai Ru,
Shaorong Xie, Jun Luo, Robert
Hamilton, and Yu Sun.

●

Best Conference Paper Award
● "Manipulation Strategy Decision and
Execution Based on Strategy Proving
Operation for Carrying Large and
Heavy Objects," Masaki Murooka,
Shintaro Noda, Shunichi Nozawa,
Yohei Kakiuchi, Kei Okada, and
Masayuki Inaba.

Figure 7. A live band, water drum performance, and culture dance were featured at the
banquet.

2014 RAS Administrative Committee Election Results.
The newly elected members of the RAS Administrative Committee (AdCom) will
begin their role on 1 January 2015. They will join the AdCom meeting for the first
time during the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in May.

Humanitarian Robotics and
Automation Technology
Challenge Winners:
● Team ORION, University of Texas at
Arlington, United States: Sandesh
Gowda, Isura Ranatunga, Shweta
Hardas, and Dan Popa.
Mobile Microrobotics-
Assembly Challenge
Cowinners
● ETH, ETHZ, Switzerland: Poel
Pieters, Simon Schuerle, Franziska
Ullrich, Samuel Charreyron, and
Brad Nelson
● UTA Microrobotics Team, University
of Texas, Arlington, United States:
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Wolfram Burgard,
University of
Freiburg, Germany.

Lydia Kavraki, Rice
University, USA.

Danica Kragic, Royal
Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden.

Yasushi Nakauchi,
University of
Tsukuba, Japan.

Richard Vaughan,
Simon Fraser
University, Canada.

Zhidong Wang,
Chiba Institute of
Technology, Japan.

Special thanks to those stepping down from their role on AdCom: Nancy Amato,
Fumihito Aria, and Robin Murphy.

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