LAB-RS 2010 Awards

Homayoun Seraji Memorial Award for Best Paper or Presentation
($1000 cash prize)
To honor the memory of Dr. Homayoun Seraji, leading researcher in robotics (who in 2003 was the most published author in the 20 years history of the Journal of Robotic Systems).

LAB-RS 2008 Winners

Homayoun Seraji Award ($1000): Best Paper
R. Felix Reinhart and Jochen J. Steil from Bielefeld University, Germany, for the paper titled Recurrent Neural Autoassociative Learning of Forward and Inverse Kinematics for Movement Generation of the Redundant PA-10 Robot

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Program Chair Adrian Stoica with winner Felix Reinhart

Best Video Award ($1000)
T. Noda, S. Ikemoto, D. Quevedo, T. Shimizu, H. Sumioka, H. Ishihara, Y. Sasamoto, Y. Yoshikawa, T. Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro and Minoru Asada from JST ERATO Project, Osaka University, Japan for the video titled CB2: Child Robot with Biomimetic Body

LAB-RS 2009 Winners

Homayoun Seraji Award ($1000): Best Paper
Mihail Pivtoraiko from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, for the paper titled Adaptive Anytime Motion Planning for Robust Robot Navigation in Natural Environments
Homayoun Seraji Award ($500): Runnerup Best Paper
Ernesto Burrattini, Alberto Finzi, Silvia Rossi and Mariacarla Staffa from the University of Naples, for the paper titled Monitoring Strategies for Adaptive Periodic Control in Behavior-based Robotic Systems

Organized by

- European Centre for Secure Information and Systems
- University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Technical University of Iasi, Romania

Hosted by

- Technical University of Iasi

Endorsed by

- Society for Adaptive and Evolvable Hardware and Systems (ADEVO)
- Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch

Contact:
terry.huntsberger@jpl.nasa.gov