Awards

Best Paper Award

Winner in Biology

• Design and Development of A Bio-Inspired Lower Limb Prosthesis with Real-Time Haptic Feedback

Pasut Suriyasomboon, Rene Suarez, Sajid Nisar

Finalists in Biology

• • Ants May Compensate for the Discrepancies in Movements between a Visual Cue and Themselves

Akihiro Takahara and Tomoko Sakiyama 

• Simulate Phototactic Behavior and Puddle-Crossing Behavior: Preparation for Assembly of Soldier Crabs’ Swarm Logical Gates

Yuta Nishiyama, Kyohei Sagawa, Hisashi Murakami, Claudio Feliciani, Davin Browner, and Andrew Adamatzky

• • Toward Understanding the Principles of Animal Behaviors: Systems Ethology

Hayato M Yamanouchi, Yusuke Notomi, Ryoya Tanaka, Shumpei Hisamoto, Shigeto Dobata

• The Role of Density in the Swarming Behavior of Soldier Crabs: Laboratory Experiments and Ecological Observations

Claudio Feliciani, Hisashi Murakami, Takenori Tomaru, Yuto Uesugi, Sakurako Tanida, Yuta Nishiyama, Xiaolu Jia

• Footstep Coordination May Contribute to Self-organized Structures in Human Crowds

Takenori Tomaru, Yuta Nishiyama, Claudio Feliciani, Hisashi Murakami

• Design and Development of A Bio-Inspired Lower Limb Prosthesis with Real-Time Haptic Feedback

Pasut Suriyasomboon, Rene Suarez, Sajid Nisar

Winner in Engineering

• Evolution and Analysis of Controllers for a Robotic Swarm: A Case Study on Collective Perception

Daichi Morimoto, Souto Takase, Motoaki Hiraga, Kazuhiro Ohkura, Masaharu Munetomo

Finalists in Engineering

• Extremum Seeking Control of Hopping Rover

Shuntaro Takekuma, Shun-ichi Azuma, Ryo Ariizumi, Toru Asai

• MBEANN Approach for Online Distributed Evolution in Robotic Swarms

Motoaki Hiraga

• Distributed Quantized Optimization by Online Adaptive Gradient Algorithm

Kento Yamamoto, Naoki Hayashi, Masahiro Inuiguchi

• • Efficient Flocking Control for Swarm Robots Using Reinforcement Learning-Based Lazy Agents

Jongyun Kim, Minjae Jung, Hyo-Sang Shin, Hyondong Oh, Antonios Tsourdos

• Evolution and Analysis of Controllers for a Robotic Swarm: A Case Study on Collective Perception

Daichi Morimoto, Souto Takase, Motoaki Hiraga, Kazuhiro Ohkura, Masaharu Munetomo

• Analysis of Effect of Arm Swing on Performance of a Jumping Robot

Cong Yan, Yanqiu Zheng, Fumihiko Asano, Isao Tokuda

Best Student Paper Award

Winner in Biology

• Toward Understanding the Principles of Animal Behaviors: Systems Ethology

Hayato M Yamanouchi, Yusuke Notomi, Ryoya Tanaka, Shumpei Hisamoto, Shigeto Dobata

Finalists in Biology

• Ants May Compensate for the Discrepancies in Movements between a Visual Cue and Themselves

Akihiro Takahara and Tomoko Sakiyama 

• Toward Understanding the Principles of Animal Behaviors: Systems Ethology

Hayato M Yamanouchi, Yusuke Notomi, Ryoya Tanaka, Shumpei Hisamoto, Shigeto Dobata

• Design and Development of A Bio-Inspired Lower Limb Prosthesis with Real-Time Haptic Feedback

Pasut Suriyasomboon, Rene Suarez, Sajid Nisar

Winner in Engineering

• Efficient Flocking Control for Swarm Robots Using Reinforcement Learning-Based Lazy Agents

Jongyun Kim, Minjae Jung, Hyo-Sang Shin, Hyondong Oh, Antonios Tsourdos

Finalists in Engineering

• Extremum Seeking Control of Hopping Rover

Shuntaro Takekuma, Shun-ichi Azuma, Ryo Ariizumi, Toru Asai

• Distributed Quantized Optimization by Online Adaptive Gradient Algorithm

Kento Yamamoto, Naoki Hayashi, Masahiro Inuiguchi

• Efficient Flocking Control for Swarm Robots Using Reinforcement Learning-Based Lazy Agents

Jongyun Kim, Minjae Jung, Hyo-Sang Shin, Hyondong Oh, Antonios Tsourdos

Best Poster Award

Winner in Biology

• [P1] Comparison of Motion Encoding Frameworks for Generalization to Human-like Trajectories

Lennart Jahn, Florentin Wörgötter, Peter B Marschik and Tomas Kulvicius

Finalists in Biology

• [P1] Comparison of Motion Encoding Frameworks for Generalization to Human-like Trajectories

Lennart Jahn, Florentin Wörgötter, Peter B Marschik and Tomas Kulvicius

• [P6] Investigating Ant Aggregation Dynamics: An Analysis Using ImageJ and Trackpy

Nadhira Afiani Ramadhanty and Adam Cronin

Winner in Engineering

• [P11] Distributed PSO with Coupled Oscillator System for Robot Swarms

Kanon Yokoi, Yuki Origane, Daisuke Kurabayashi and Hayato Dan

Finalists in Engineering

• [P11] Distributed PSO with Coupled Oscillator System for Robot Swarms

Kanon Yokoi, Yuki Origane, Daisuke Kurabayashi and Hayato Dan

• [P18] Collision-Free Navigation of Multi-Agent Systems Based on Control Barrier Functions 

Fidelia Chaitra Siri, Song Jie and Mikhail Svinin

• [P15] Decentralized Nonlinear MPC-Based Flock Navigation with Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance in Unknown Obstructed Environments

Nuthasith Gerdpratoom and Kaoru Yamamoto