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2024 Best Paper Award Finalists and Winner

Winners (tied):

  • Consensus Complementarity Control for Multi-Contact MPC, by A. Aydinoglu, A. Wei, W. Huang, M. Posa

  • Constrained Articulated Body Dynamics Algorithms, by A. Sathya, J. Carpentier

Finalists:

  • Fast and Certifiable Trajectory Optimization, S. Kang, X. Xu, J. Sarva, L. Liang, H. Yang

  • Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation, S. Teng, A. Jasour, R. Vasudevan, M. Ghaffari

  • TinyMPC: Model-Predictive Control on Resource-Constrained Microcontrollers, K. Nguyen, S. Schoedel, A. Alavilli, B. Plancher, Z. Manchester

  • MPCGPU: Real-Time Nonlinear Model Predictive Control through Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient on the GPU, E. Adabag, M. Atal, W. Gerard, B. Plancher

  • Conflict-Based Model Predictive Control for Scalable Multi-Robot Motion Planning, A. Tajbakhsh, L. Biegler, A. M. Johnson

  • Gait Optimization for Legged Systems Through Mixed Distribution Cross-Entropy Optimization, I. Tsikelis, K. Chatzilygeroudis

  • Adaptive Complexity Model Predictive Control, J. Norby, A. Tajbakhsh, Y. Yang, A. M. Johnson

Congratulations to all the authors!

Each winner is awarded a cash prize (USD 500).

We got 36 submissions and 9 were selected for jury evaluation.

The jury members this year were: - Dr. Ioannis Havoutis - Dr. Majid Khadiv - Dr. Dana Kulic - Dr. Nezmiye Ozay - Dr. Ram Vasudevan - Dr. Eiichi Yoshida

A warm thank you to them.