Best Paper Award

Every two years we give out awards to papers published within our consortium that are deemed to be exemplary. The first author receives a CHF 500 cash prize and a certificate.

To submit a paper, login to the intranet (NCCR Robotics members only) and follow the instructions under the Best Paper Award section or contact our Education Officer at education {@} nccr-robotics.ch

The 2018 Best PhD Paper was awarded to Jenifer Mielhbradt for the paper "Data-driven body–machine interface for the accurate control of drones"
The 2018 Best Postdoc Paper was awarded to Jeff Delmerico for his paper “A Benchmark Comparison of Monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry Algorithms for Flying Robots“
The 2016 Best Postdoc Paper was awarded to Marco Capogrosso for his paper "Mechanisms Underlying the Neuromodulation of Spinal Circuits for Correcting Gait and Balance Deficits after Spinal Cord Injury". DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.01.009
The 2016 PhD Best Paper was awarded to Jun Shintake for his paper "Versatile soft grippers with intrinsic electroadhesion based on mulifunctional polymer actuators" DOI: 10.1002/adma.201504264
A special mention was given to Michael Neunert for his paper "Fast nonliner Model Predictive Control for Unified Trajectory Optimization and Tracking" DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487274
Stanisa Raspopovic won the 2014 Best Postdoc paper for "Restoring Natural Sensory Feedback in Real-Time Bidirectional Hand Prostheses". DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3006820
Klas Kronander won the 2014 Best PhD paper for his paper entitled "Learning Compliant Manipulation through Tactile and Kinesthetic Human-Robot Interaction". DOI 10.1109/TOH.2013.54
The 2012 Best PhD Paper was awarded to Michal Dobrzynski for the paper "Quantifying information transfer through a head attached vibrotactile display: principles for design and control" DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2196433
David Remy won the 2012 Best Postdoc Paper Award for the paper "Quadrupedal Robots with Stiff and Compliant Actuation". DOI: https://doi.org/10.1524/auto.2012.1042
Edoardo d'Anna won a 2020 Best PhD Paper Award with the paper "A closed-loop hand prosthesis with simultaneous intraneural tactile and position feedback"
Anna-Maria Georgarakis won a 2020 Best PhD Paper Award with the paper "Age-Dependent Asymmetry of Wrist Position Sense Is Not Influenced by Stochastic Tactile Stimulation"