News: Award Finalists available!
Award 1 – Best Conference Paper Award
- 342 – “Accelerating Virtual Fixture Estimation for Robot Manipulation Using Reinforcement Learning and Human Demonstrations” by Fernandez Prado, Diego; Larintzakis, Konstantinos; Irsperger, Jan; Steinbach, Eckehard
- 481 – “Semantic Behaviour Tree Learning through Kinesthetic Demonstrations for Position-Force Controlled Robotic Applications” by Fratini, Lorenzo; Lucci, Niccolò; Malavenda, Matteo; Zanchettin, Andrea Maria; Rocco, Paolo
- 616 – “Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Based on Planning Operators” by Zhang, Jing; Dean, Emmanuel; Ramirez-Amaro, Karinne
Award 2 – Best Short Paper Award
- 832 – “Measuring Healthcare Accessibility in Metropolitan Cities in China” by Wang, Qing; Weng, Leqi; Ma, Fanyuan; Li, Jingshan
- 844 – “Data-Driven Methods for Virtual Metrology of Sheet Resistance in Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) Process” by Hsu, Chia-Yu; Cheng, You-Wei; Lee, Ming-Yu
- 849 – “Designing Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Dynamic Machine Allocation with Case Study of a Semiconductor Tool Group” by Hsu, Hsin-Tzu; Chang, Shi-Chung
Award 3 – Best Application Paper Award
- 496 – “Multi-Agent Path Planning for Finite Horizon Tasks with Counting Time Temporal Logics” by Lv, Peng; Li, Shaoyuan; Yin, Xiang
- 511 – “Chattering-Free Sliding Mode Control for Position and Attitude Tracking of a Quadrotor with a Cable-Suspended Load” by Gomiero, Sara; von Ellenrieder, Karl
- 550 – “A Geometry Aware Diffusion Model for 3D Point Cloud Generation” by Zhang, Ao; Shen, Zhen; Fang, Qihang; Jian Yang, Jian; Xiong, Gang; Dong, Xisong
Award 4 – Best Application Video Award
- 228 – “Adaptive Incremental Hybrid Impedance Control for Robotic Garment Manipulation” by Zhang, Yukuan; Chen, Dayuan; Petrilli-Barceló, Alberto Elías; Salazar Luces, Jose Victorio; Hirata, Yasuhisa
- 237 – “Strongly-Connected Minimal-Cost Radio-Networks among Fixed Terminals Using Mobile Relays and Avoiding No-Transmission Zones” by Bernardini, Francesco; Biediger, Daniel; Pineda, Ileana; Kleist, Linda; Becker, Aaron
- 508 – “Concentric-Tube-Eccentric-Rod: A Continuum Actuator for Macro-/Micro-Scale Translational Actuation” by Zeng, Lingyun; Sadati, S.M.Hadi; Ismayilov, Mirroyal; Lindenroth, Lukas; Bergeles, Christos
Award 5 – Best Student Paper Award
- 682 – “A Feature Extraction Framework with Entropy on Graphs for Cross-Dataset Building Fault Detection” by Huang, Jiajing; Patharkar, Abhidnya; Wu, Teresa; Wen, Jin; O’Neill, Zheng; Candan, Kasim
- 716 – “Adaptive Responses of Cancer Cells to Tumor Microenvironment Changes: An Evolutionary Model Perspective” by Romano, Chiara; Borri, Alessandro; Di Benedetto, Maria Domenica
- 733 – “Development of a Novel Multipurpose Robotic End Effector for Fruitlet Thinning and Fruit Harvesting of Apples” by Jangali, Rahul; McGuinness, Benjamin John; Lim, Shen Hin; Williams, Henry; Qureshi, Ans; Smith, David Anthony James; MacDonald, Bruce; Duke, Mike
Award 6 – Peter Luh Award
- 159 – “An efficient parallel single surrogate objective optimization method for multi-objective black-box problem and its application in processor design” by Lv, Xiaoliang; Zhai, Qiaozhu; Zhu, Yuhang; Hu, Jianchen; Zhou, Yuzhou; Guan, Xiaohong
- 623 – “Helical Trajectory Control of Quadrotor UAVs Using Fractional Order Proportional-Integral-Derivative (FOPID) Controller” by Abro, Ghulam E Mustafa Abro; Abdallah, Ayman M; Elshaar, Mohssen E.
- 709 – “A Distributed Algorithm for Coordination in Energy Communities” by Brumali, Riccardo; Carnevale, Guido; Carli, Ruggero; Notarstefano, Giuseppe
Award 7 – Best Healthcare Automation Paper Award
- 192 – “Fiducial Marker Based Patient-To-Robot Registration and Target Tracking for Automatic Extra-Body Ultrasound Imaging” by Zheng, Yixuan; Wang, Weizhao; Ferhusoglu, Hamza; Subramaniyam, Tharun; Xu, Zhouyang; Rhode, Kawal; Housden, Richard James
- 213 – “Accelerating Laboratory Automation through Robot Skill Learning for Sample Scraping” by Pizzuto, Gabriella; Wang, Hetong; Fakhruldeen, Hatem; Peng, Bei; Luck, Kevin Sebastian; Cooper, Andrew Ian
- 802 – “Automating 3D Surgical Suture Planning” by Ramakrishnan, Viraj; Isaac, Julia; Jalan, Harshika; Polavaram, Harsha; Adler, Aviv; Kim, Hansoul; Fer, Danyal; Goldberg, Ken
IEEE CASE2024 organizes competitions for several Awards. The finalists must present their papers in person or online during the Awards session.
While the rest of the award finalists will be selected directly by the award committee, the Best Student Paper Award and the Peter Luh Award are selected based on applications from the authors.
Nomination deadline: June 30, 2024, at 12:00 (CEST)
Details about the awards, including categories and judging criteria, can be found below.
Description: The award is given annually to the author(s) of a paper presented at the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) that contributed to the notable advancement in automation research: abstractions, algorithms, theory, methodologies, and models that improve efficiency, productivity, quality, and reliability of machines and systems operating in structured environments over extended periods, or that improve the explicit structuring of environments where machines and systems operate.
Established: 2007
Prize: A single award of $1,000 to be shared by all authors and certificates for individual authors. If there are multiple authors of a winning paper, they will share the $1,000 prize equally. In the exceptional case that two papers are deemed worthy, the authors of each paper will share a $500 prize equally.
Eligibility: There are no restrictions as to organization, nationality, race, creed, sex, or age, except for the acceptance of a full regural or full special session paper and its presentation at IEEE CASE. There is no requirement for IEEE membership. Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations.
Basis for Judging: The award is given annually to the author(s) of a paper presented in IEEE CASE that contributed to the notable advancement in automation research: abstractions, algorithms, theory, methodologies, and models that improve efficiency, productivity, quality, and reliability of machines and systems operating in structured environments over extended periods, or that improve the explicit structuring of environments where machines and systems operate. Finalists are selected from all the accepted papers by the Conference Awards Committee and are notified prior to the conference. The finalists will present their works in the conference plenary best paper award session that is attended by the selection committee. The committee listens to the presentations, the questions from the audience and the authors’ answers. The committee also invites comments after each presentation and considers them in the evaluation. The selection committee then decides upon the winner.
Presentation: The award will be presented during the conference. No award will be given if no qualified candidate is identified.
Description: Best application paper presented at the International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
Established: 2008
Prize: award of $1,000 to be shared by all authors and certificates for individual authors. If there are multiple authors of a winning paper, they will share the $1,000 prize equally. In the exceptional case that two papers are deemed worthy, the authors of each paper will share a $500 prize equally.
Eligibility: There are no restrictions as to organization, nationality, race, creed, sex, or age, except for the acceptance of a paper and its presentation at IEEE CASE. There is no requirement for IEEE membership. Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations.
Basis for Judging: Factors to be considered: The significance of new applications, technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, and clarity of presentation. The Committee consists of experts in the related fields and is led by the CASE Conference Award Committee Chair.
Presentation: The award will be presented during the conference. No award will be given if no qualified candidate is identified.
Description: This award recognizes the best paper authored primarily by a student and presented by the student at the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). The award is supported by his academic family to honor Professor Yu-Chi (Larry) Ho, a Past President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Council, which later became the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
Established: 2007
Prize: A single award of $1,000 to the student first-author and certificates for all individual authors. In the exceptional case that two papers are deemed worthy, the student first-author of each paper will receive a $500 prize.
Eligibility: All student papers presented at the annual CASE conference are eligible. There are no restrictions as to IEEE membership, organization, nationality, race, creed, sex, or age. Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations.
Basis for Judging: A selection committee will be appointed by the CASE Awards Committee. Papers are judged based on technical merit, originality, relevance and potential impact on the field of automation science and engineering, clarity of the written paper, and quality of the conference presentation.
Presentation: The award will be presented during the conference. No award will be given if no qualified candidate is identified.
Description: The Peter Luh Memorial Best Paper Award for Young Researcher, presented at the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). An award is established in honor of Professor Peter Luh’s dedicated service to raising the profile of Automation and supporting young researchers early in their career. Peter Luh was a co-founder of CASE and the founding Editor in Chief of the automation journal, Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE). He was also noted by many of the Robotics and Automation Society volunteers as the first person to reach out to them early in their careers and encourage them to become volunteers. For this reason, this award is specifically dedicated to young researchers with a PhD exam not older than five years, and the award does not overlap nor conflict with any other award at the CASE conference.
Prize: A single award is given to the best paper. Up to two awards are given as an exceptional case. A prize of $1,000 and a certificate are given to the young leading researcher of the winning paper, also when multiple authors are involved. In the exceptional case of two winning papers, the young leading researchers of each paper will share the $1000 prize equally.
Eligibility:
All papers presented at the annual CASE conference by a young leading researcher are eligible. The young researcher must hold a Ph.D. degree not older than five years on the last day of the month when the conference is held. To be a leading researcher means that the young researcher is one of the main authors of the paper. There are no restrictions as to IEEE membership, organization, nationality, race, creed, sex, or age. Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society/Council governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations. Previous award winners are not eligible for substantially the same achievements (per IEEE Policies 4.4: An individual shall receive only one award for a given achievement, unless the significance merits a higher award, which may be given in the following year or thereafter.)
Presentation: The award will be presented during the conference. No award will be given if no qualified candidate is identified.
Description: The award is given to the author(s) of a presentation-only paper or abstract presented at the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE).
Prize: A single award of $1,000 to be shared by all authors and certificates for individual authors. If there are multiple authors of a winning paper, they will share the $1,000 prize equally. In the exceptional case that two papers are deemed worthy, the authors of each paper will share a $500 prize equally.
Eligibility: There are no restrictions as to organization, nationality, race, creed, sex, or age, except for the acceptance of a
– Special Session Presentation-only Abstracts
– Work-in-progress and Industry Presentation-only Papers
– Work-in-progress and Industry Presentation-only Special Session Papers
There is no requirement for IEEE membership. Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations.
Presentation: The award will be presented during the conference. No award will be given if no qualified candidate is identified.
Description: The award is given to the author(s) of a application video presented at the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE).
Prize: A single award of $1,000 to be shared by all authors and certificates for individual authors. If there are multiple authors of a winning paper, they will share the $1,000 prize equally. In the exceptional case that two papers are deemed worthy, the authors of each paper will share a $500 prize equally.
Eligibility: There are no restrictions as to organization, nationality, race, creed, sex, or age, except for the acceptance of an application video and its presentation at IEEE CASE. There is no requirement for IEEE membership. Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations.
Presentation: The award will be presented during the conference. No award will be given if no qualified candidate is identified.
Description: The award is given annually to the author(s) of a paper presented at the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) that contributed to the notable advancement in Best Healthcare Automation.
Established: 2019
Prize: A single award of $1,000 to be shared by all authors and certificates for individual authors. If there are multiple authors of a winning paper, they will share the $1,000 prize equally. In the exceptional case that two papers are deemed worthy, the authors of each paper will share a $500 prize equally.
Funding: The award is sponsored by Pinetree Health Technologies Co., Ltd for a period of 4 years (2021-2024). If funding becomes unavailable, the award will not be given.
Eligibility: There are no restrictions as to organization, nationality, race, creed, sex, or age, except for the acceptance of a paper and its presentation at IEEE CASE. There is no requirement for IEEE membership. Eligibility and Selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations.
Basis for Judging: The award is given annually. A selection committee will be appointed by the CASE Awards Committee with members who have appropriate expertise in the field of Healthcare Automation. Papers are judged based on technical merit, originality, relevance and potential impact on the Healthcare Automation field, clarity of the written paper, and quality of the conference presentation.