Okay, so since our time is limited, I would like to start the IROS Awards 2015 ceremony.
This is a, our world chair of the IROS steering committee is Professor Shigeki Sugano from
Pasadena University, and the IROS 2015 Conference of World Chair is Professor Michael Wang from
National University, Singapore, as well as the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Today we have many awards. So I'd like to, the first four will be chaired by myself and the last five
will be chaired by Michael. Okay, so let me start with the IROS Harashima Award for Innovative
Technologies. This award is established to honor Professor Fumio Harashima, the honorary founding
chair of IROS conference by recognizing outstanding contributions of an individual of the IROS community
who has pioneered activities in robotics and the intelligent systems. The nomination committee
consists of a chair is Professor Shigeki Sugano, and the members are Professor Edi Glan, Professor
Lolan Siward, and Professor Masakatsu Fujie. The selection committee's chair is Professor
Joji Lee, and the members are Professor Shinichi Uta, Professor Christian Loje, and Professor
Niko Roplas. They did their hard work, but unfortunately, they worked too hard. We have
no winner this year. So we'd like to encourage you, I mean, to be nominated. This is very
unfortunate. They are very strict. The committee are very strict, and they couldn't finalize one
good recipient. Next one is IROS Distinguished Services Award. This Distinguished Services
Award is established to recognize an individual who has performed outstanding services to the
I2P-RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Up to two awards will be given
annually at the I2P-RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Eligibility is,
if, I mean, only members of the I2P Robotics and Automation Society, I2P Industrial Electronics
Society, Robotics Society of Japan, and the Society of Instrumental and Controlled Engineers
are eligible. And the basis of judging is the fact that considered include services, activities,
and participation to the I2P-RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
The sponsor of this award is the IROS Organizing Committee, and the prize is a total of US $1,000
and a certificate. A total means that if you have two recipients, this award will be divided. So,
the award will be presented by Professor Joji Lee, the Chair of the IROS Distinguished
Committee. The winners this year is, we have two winners, Professor Toshio Fukuda for his
outstanding services in founding and supporting IROS conferences, and Professor TJ Tan for his
outstanding services to IROS Advisory Steering Committee and IROS Conference.
Joji, please come to the podium, come to the stage.
As you know, their contributions are so huge, but the important thing is that they
receive only once. Okay. The congratulations, TJ. Okay. Next, Toshio.
Congratulations. Yeah, you can take pictures together. Yes. No, no, no. Okay. No, no, you can.
Okay. Join me to give them a big hand. Thank you very much for your services and
contribution to this IROS so far. Thank you very much. Next award is a
IOS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award. This award is established to recognize individuals
from academic institutions, government, industry, and or other research labs who in the early
career have made identifiable contributions that have had a major impact on intelligent
robots and systems. Up to two awards will be given annually at the IROS International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems. Members of the I2P Robotics and Automation Society, the I2P
Industrial Ethnic Society, the Robotics Society of Japan, and the Society of Instrument and
Control Engineers are eligible. The nominee must be in his or her early stage of career in the
intelligent robots and systems field. That is the period between the date of the issue of the
nominees diploma and the close of the nominations for the award is, sorry, is less than 15 years.
Okay. And basis of judging is factors that will be considered are potential impact and achievements
of the submitted contributions to the intelligent robot and systems and or industrial patterns and
discovery related to the intelligent robot and systems. This award is sponsored also by
IOS Organizing Committee. A prize is the US $1,000 and a certificate. This award will be presented by
Professor Toshio Fukuda, major university, Japan. We have a winner this year. The winner is Dr.
Raina Bischoff. For his technical contributions to the personal robotic assistant and his effort in
uniting the European robotics community. Congratulations.
Okay. Next one is IOS Fellow. IOS Fellow is established to recognize an individual who has
performed outstanding leadership and services to the international conference on intelligent
robots and systems. Only retired members over 65 years old of ITP Robotics and Automation Society,
ITP Industrial Electric Society, Robotics Society of Japan, and the Society of Instrumental and
Control Engineers are eligible. IOS Advisory Committee and IOS Sterling Committee nominates
and the judge the results. The prize is the exemption of the registration fee of IOS
conferences and the invitation to the IOS official events. This fellow will be presented
by Professor Jojiri, chair of the IOS Sterling Committee. We have three recipients this year.
The recipients are Professor T.J. Tan, Professor Shun-Sachou, and Professor Humio Harashima. I'm
sure that everybody knows them. So please come to the stage and we prepare the certificate for that.
Okay. So Professor Shun-Sachou is a... Okay.
Professor Yifan Su is a representative. He's for Professor H.S. Cho.
Okay. Congratulations again. Okay. Next five hours is relating to this IOS conference
and that will be presented by the IOS 2015 Conference Award Chair, Michael. So please.
Thank you. It's my pleasure to conduct IOS 2015 Best Papers Awards. We have five categories
of Best Papers Awards. These awards are selected in a process as follows. The program committee
selects candidates for each award during the IOS PC meeting and the selection committee for each
award is then formed by each sponsoring organizations of IOS 2015. Then the selection
committee selects the finalists and they also attend to the presentations of all finalists
and finally they select the winner for each of the five categories.
So these are the five categories. We will start with the first category until we finish all of
five today. The first category is JTC, no technology paper award for amusement culture.
The purpose of this award is to recognize practical technology contribution to toys,
toy models, and amusement culture. It's sponsored by Japan Toyo Culture Foundation, also known as
JTCF. The prize comprises of Japanese yuan of a hundred thousand and also a certificate.
And these are the selection committee and Dr. Sakuno chaired the selection committee
with a total of four members. For this award, Dr. Yasashi Nakuchi will make the presentation.
I have not come to the finalists yet. So these three finalists were selected and the results
were announced about 10 days ago and the results are on the IOS 2015 website. So the finalists,
authors, please come to the stage. We will present to you each of the papers,
a certificate as well. Please come to the stage.
The final list of the three finalist papers, the authors of three finalist papers come to the stage, please.
Please come up.
And the certificate for the finalists will be presented now.
All right, so take a picture. Then now we go to the winner. The winner is paper entitled
Moment and Driven Single Actuated Swimming Robot by Gala Darafil and Amir Degani.
Now is the certificate for the winner of this category.
Congratulations to all.
Congratulations and thank you.
The next category is the Robot Cup Best Paper Award.
Now Robot Cup Best Paper Award is sponsored by the Robot Cup Federation.
It comprises a prize of 500 euro and a certificate and the selection committee is chaired by
Manuro Asada with other five members. And for this award, the presentation will be made by the
Robot Cup Federation, the President Tukil Noda, and also Vice President of Europe,
Gayhard Carter-Shama. I have to struggle with that a little bit. And the three finalists
are here. And the author of the finalist, please come up on the stage to receive
your certificate for the finalist as well.
No, I'm not going to read. We will just give the finalist.
A photo, please.
And the winner. I'm jumping ahead. Please stay.
Kangwei Wu, Weisang Li, and David Xu, paper entitled POMDP to the Rescue,
boosting performance for Robot Cup Rescue.
Thank you. Congratulations.
Thank you. The next category of the award is ICROS Best Application Paper Award.
So this award is sponsored by ICROS Institute of Control Robotics and Systems. And this is
the institution in South Korea. The institution started in 1999. And this award is to recognize
excellent robotic applications. The price of U.S. dollars of 1,000 and a certificate.
The selection committee is chaired by Bajun Yi, with a large number of people. And this award
will be presented by Filvino Mastro Giovanni. And the finalists are these three. The authors of
the finalists, please come to the stage. There will be a certificate to each of the finalists as well.
Congratulations.
And the winner is
ICROS Institute of Control Robotics and Systems.
Congratulations again. Thank you.
And we move very fast to the next category. That is ICROS 2015 ABB Best Student Paper Award.
And this has long words in it. The purpose of this award is to recognize most outstanding paper
authored primarily by a student at ICROS. The student must be one of the sponsoring members
of ICROS conferences. And the award is administered by the Confidence Awards Committee of ICROS
Conference. And the sponsor this year is ABB as well as ICROS 2015. The prizes of U.S. $1,000
and a certificate. The selection committee is chaired by me with 12 members in the selection
committee. And for this award it will be presented by ICROS 2015 program chair Alois Ngo.
And the finalists, there are three finalists, authors of the finalist papers,
please come on stage. There will be a certificate for each of the finalists.
Okay.
And the certificate for the finalist will be ready at the registration desk a little bit later.
And we're going to move ahead to the winner.
And the winner is the paper by Yifeng Chen. A little bit of farro pebbling.
Garvish Nicholas, Kevin Ma, and Robert Wood. The paper title is hybrid aerial, a quintic
local mission in an at-scale robotic insect. And the certificate to the winner is going to be
presented now. Okay. Please. Photo, please. All right. Thank you very much. Just a moment.
All right. Oh, we have the certificates for the finalist. Okay. They don't have to wait.
Photo. Photo together, then. All together, please. A photograph together for all
finalists and the winner waits their certificates.
Great. Congratulations. Thank you very much.
We have our last category, but not the least, AROS 2015. Best paper award.
Now, this paper award is sponsored by two societies, RSJ, the Robotics Society of Japan,
and SICE, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers. And today we have the RSJ president
and also the vice president of SICE to be at the presentation of this award. And I will ask them to
come on the stage a little bit later. The prize comprises of US$2,000 and a certificate.
The selection committee is chaired by me again and with 12 members of the selection committee,
just as in the best student paper committee. And the award will be presented by general
chair of AROS 2015, Genevieve Zhang. And I'd also like to invite the two sponsoring
societies representative to also join us to come on the stage from RSJ president,
Professor Tuyo Takanishi. From SICE, the vice president, Dr. Akara Maeda. Please come to the
stage. And there are four finalists. These are the authors and their papers of all four finalists.
Authors of the finalists, please come on the stage to receive the certificate for each paper
at the final list.
We will also present all certificates after the winner is announced. So we go to the next step.
So winner is paper by Shin Alice Wu, Suminash Suresh, Ho Jim, John Uman,
Illith Wright Hokey, David Christensen, and Mark Kotosky. The paper is entitled
Tactile Something for Gecko-Inspired Haitian. Congratulations to all. And now we will present
certificates to the winner as well as the certificates to all final lists.
Thank you.
Congratulations and thank you. And final congratulations to all the winners and all the
finalists of the five conference best paper awards. Also thank you. Thank you very much.
We are going to have two more announcements. First, we are going to have an announcement.
I would like to introduce a generator of iOS 2016. He is going to give us some presentation.
Quite short presentation. And we have one more very important information at the end of this
ceremony.
Okay.
Only show me five.
Okay.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to be here to give us some promotion speech
for iOS 2016. I'm the general chair from Hanyang University. And the program chair.
There will be three concepts to organize iOS 2016. First one is economically rich.
Second one is socially entertaining. And final one is the cultural enjoyable.
So ASK is asked. So I would like to ask you to come to Dajon to participate in iOS 2016.
The theme is the road to companionship with intelligent robots in everyday life and work
spaces. And more than 40 organizing committee members are ready to serve you.
This is the program summary. We would like to mix up the oral presentation and interactive sessions.
And the socially entertaining, to be socially entertaining, we are arranging several social
events. Especially all registered students will be invited to Dajon City mayor's banquet.
It is free. Okay. Yeah. And also build fountain with music performances after 5 p.m.
So you can enjoy everything at the DCC.
And to have the cultural enjoyable events, I would like to introduce this kind of
fun in Korea. It's a historical tour. And Korean cuisine.
And there are lots of performances. Shopping and nightlife.
You can enjoy the Korean pubs.
Okay. Let me show
video clips.
So
thank you. See you in Dajon.
I would like to introduce the chief of the conference publication.
Okay. I have just two quick announcements. The first one is we are always trying to improve
IROS and make it a better conference. Although it's probably hard to make the next one a better
conference than this one. But as we saw, they are really working hard on that. And in order to
achieve this, we created a survey. And actually all of you should have received an email already
with a link to a survey where you can actually give us your own opinion about the advantages
and disadvantages of IROS 2015. And in order to make this a little bit more attractive,
there is actually a price of 400 US dollars to win. If you should have not received this email,
please go to the registration desk and give them your email address under which you actually want
to receive that request for filling out this form. This was the first half of the last announcement.
The second half is about, I guess you all had a great time here thus far and took a lot of
pictures. And the weather outside is very nice. And probably many of you took really, really
beautiful pictures of the environment as well of Hamburg. And it might even be that there are some
pictures of people dancing during the conference banquet. And if this should be the case, please
send these pictures to photos at iros2015.org. Thank you. So photos in this case, P-H-O-T-O-S.
This will be the right address. And we'll try to have a nice slideshow this afternoon at the
farewell reception and in order to share these pictures with others and maybe have also some
memories of the beautiful city, the great iros and great company here. Thank you very much.
Okay, thank you very much for your cooperation. This is the, I'd like to close the award ceremony.
So please enjoy the rest of the conference and the favorite party
and the city of Hamburg. So thank you very much for your coming and joining us.