List of SII 2021 Awards-Winners


Best Paper Award

Paper TuC1.6
Renato Miyagusuku and Koichi Ozaki (Utsunomiya University, Japan)
"Distance Invariant Sparse Autoencoder for Wireless Signal Strength Mapping"

Finalists for Best Paper Award

Paper TuC3.1
Ganegoda Vidanage Charaka Rasanga, Ryuichi Hodoshima and Shinya Kotosaka (Saitama University, Japan)
"The Flatworm-Like Pedal Locomotory Robot WORMESH-I: Locomotion Based on the Combination of Pedal Waves"

Paper TuC2.3
Yusuke Hayami, Weiwei Wan, Keisuke Koyama, Peihao Shi (Osaka University, Japan), Juan Rojas(Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) and Kensuke Harada (Osaka University, Japan)
"Error Identification and Recovery in Robotic Snap Assembly"

Paper TuC1.5
Kiyohiko Iwamura, Jun Younes Louhi Kasahara (The University of Tokyo, Japan), Alessandro Moro(Ritecs Inc., Japan), Atsushi Yamashita and Hajime Asama(The University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Potential of Incorporating Motion Estimation for Image Captioning"

Paper WeB1.2
Takuma Sugimoto, Kyusuke Yamaguchi, Zhongshan Bao, Minying Ye, Hiroki Tomoe and Kanji Tanaka (University of Fukui, Japan)
"Fault-Diagnosing Monocular-SLAM for Scale-Aware Change Detection"

Best Student Paper Award

Paper WeD2.1
Yoshihiko Shibuya (Tohoku University, Japan)
"Development and Demonstration of the Mission Control System for Artificial Meteor Generating Micro-Satellites"
(co-authored with Yuji Sato, Hannah Tomio, Toshinori Kuwahara, Shinya Fujita (Tohoku University, Japan), Koh Kamachi, and Hayato Watanabe (ALE Co., Ltd, Japan))

Finalist for Best Student Paper Award

Paper WeB4.5
Taiki Yamada, Katsutoshi Itoyama, Kenji Nishida (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) and Kazuhiro Nakadai Tokyo Institute of Technology / Honda Research Inst. Japan Co., Ltd, Japan)
"Sound Source Tracking Using Integrated Direction Likelihood for Drones with Microphone Arrays"

Paper WeD1.3
Yusuke Kawai, Sora Nagao, Yuki Yokokura, Kiyoshi Ohishi and Toshimasa Miyazaki (Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan)
"Quick Torsion Torque Control Based on Model Error Compensator and Disturbance Observer with Torsion Torque Sensor"

Paper ThA1.3
Fahad Raza and Mitsuhiro Hayashibe (Tohoku University, Japan)
"Towards Robust Wheel-Legged Biped Robot System: Combining Feedforward and Feedback Control"

Paper ThA2.5
Naoya Shiraishi, Kazuki Kibune, Shinya Fujita, Yoshihiko Shibuya, Yuji Sato, Toshinori Kuwahara (Tohoku University, Japan) and Junichi Kurihara (Hokkaido University, Japan)
"Automated Mission Planning System for Ocean Observation of Micro-Satellite RISESAT"

SICE Young Investigator Award (SIYA)

Paper TuC1.5
Kiyohiko Iwamura (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Potential of Incorporating Motion Estimation for Image Captioning"

Paper WeC3.1
Naoki Wake (Microsoft, USA)
"A Learning-from-Observation Framework: One-Shot Robot Teaching for Grasp-Manipulation-Release Household Operations"

Paper TuC2.1
Takuya Fujinaga (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
"Development and Evaluation of a Tomato Fruit Suction Cutting Device"

Video Demo Session Award

Paper ThC_VD4.1
Tanaka Hideyuki (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
"A Novel Lenticular Angle Gauge for High-Accuracy Fiducial Markers"