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2020 Finalist Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), ‘End-To-End Joint Intention Estimation for Shared Control Personal Mobility Navigation' Katuwandeniya , K., Valls Miro, J. & Dantanarayana, L ICARCV
2019 Winner Best paper award in International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2019 Fred Sukkar, Chanyeol Yoo and Prof. Robert Fitch ICRA
2018 Winner Best student paper award - ACRA Conference Brian Lee and James Lee ACRA
2017 Winner Best Poster Award from the 8th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines, title Towards a closed loopsoft fishtail actuator - soft sensors utilized for measurement of soft fin curvature Ardian Jusufi Hokkaido Japan
2016 Winner Best Paper Award at 14th International Conference on ICARCV 2016 for Incremental SQP Method for Constrained Optimization Formulation in SLAM. Fang Bai, Prof. Shoudong Shuang, A/Prof. Teresa Vidal Calleja, Qingling Zhang ICARCV
2016 Winner ACRA 2016 Best Student Paper for Probabilistic Maximum Set Cover with Path Constraints for Informative Path Planning Graeme Best and Robert Fitch ACRA
2015 Finalist Best Paper Award, IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA),  ‘Modelling In-Pipe Acoustic Signal Propagation for Condition Assessment of Multi-Layer Water Pipelines’ Su, D., Valls Miro, J. & Vidal-Calleja, T ICIEA
2015 Winner Best Student Paper Award on ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, title "Map-based Navigation of an Autonomous Car Using Grid-based Scan-to-Map Matching" Tomoyuki, Dr. Ravindra Ranasinghe and  Dist. Prof. Gamini Dissanayake Boston, USA
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Highly Commended Paper Award in International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR) 2015, ‘Graph-SLAM Based Calibration of an Embedded Asynchronous Microphone Array for Outdoor Robotic Target Tracking'

Daobilige Su, A/Prof. Teresa Vidal Calleja, A/Prof. Jaime Valls Miro CLAWAR
2015 Highly Commended Paper Award in International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR) for “Mapping Repetitive Structural Tunnel Environments for a Biologically-Inspired Climbing Robot" Dr. Gavin Paul, Shuyuan Mao, Liyang Liu, Rong Xiong  
2011 Winner Best Paper Award  “Electromyogram (EMG) based Fingers Movement Recognition Using Neighbourhood Preserving Analysis with QR-Decomposition”, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2011), pp 1-6, (Best Paper for the Biomedical Sensing and Sensors Symposium -ISSNIP 2011) 6-9 Dec 2011. Rami N Khushaba, Prof. Sarath Kodagoda, Dist. Prof. Dikai Liu, Dist. Prof. Gamini Dissanayake Adelaide, Australia
2008 Winner Best Student Paper Award on International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (InTech 2008), title "A New System-On Programmable Chip (SOPC) for Smart Car Braking Control" Ying-Hao Yu, N.M.Kwok, and Q.P. Ha Samui, Thailand
2007 Winner Best Student Paper Award “A 3-dimensional force field method for robot collision avoidance in complex environments”, Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, pp 139-145, 19-21 Sep 2007. P.Chotiprayanakul, Dist. Prof. Dikai Liu, D.Wang, Dist. Prof. Gamini Dissanayake Kochi, Kerala, India
2007 Winner Best Student Paper Award on IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering IEE CASE 2007, title "Dynamic Modelling of Wheel-Terrain Interaction of a UGV" T.H. Tran, N.M. Kwok, S. Scheding and Q.P Ha Arizona, USA
2006 Winner Best paper award, proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, title "Bridge Maintenance Robotic Arm: Capacitive sensor for obstacle ranging in particle laden air", pp 596-601, Oct 3-5,2006. Nathan Kirchner, Dikai Liu, Gamini Dissanayake Tokyo, Japan
2006 Best paper award nominations on IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, title "Intensity Preserving Contracts Enhancement for Gray-Level Images using Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization" N.M. Kwok, Q.P. Ha, D.K.Liu, G.Fang Shanghai, China
2005 Best paper award International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (In Tech 2005) title "Toward a Generic Architecture for Robotic Formations: Planning and Control" Ngo, VT, Nguyen A.D and Ha, Q.P Phuket, Thailand

 

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