TC on Robot Control Best Paper Awards

Each year, the TC on Robot Control recognizes outstanding contributions in the field by selecting a Best Paper and a set of Finalists.
The awards are presented annually.

2026

The new call for the 2026 Best Paper Award is open. Click here to apply.

2025

Winner

• T. Duong, A. Altawaitan, J. Stanley and N. Atanasov,
  “Port-Hamiltonian Neural ODE Networks on Lie Groups for Robot Dynamics Learning and Control,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 40, pp. 3695-3715, 2024 → Interview with the authors

Finalists

• J. van Steen, G. v. d. Brandt, N. v. d. Wouw, J. Kober and A. Saccon,
  “Quadratic Programming-Based Reference Spreading Control for Dual-Arm Robotic Manipulation With Planned Simultaneous Impacts,”
  IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 40, pp. 3341-3355, 2024

• D. R. Agrawal, R. Chen and D. Panagou, “gatekeeper: Online Safety Verification and Control for Nonlinear Systems in Dynamic Environments,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 40, pp. 4358-4375, 2024

• Javier Borquez, Shuang Peng, Yiyu Chen, Quan Nguyen, Somil Bansal,
  “Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis for Hybrid Systems with Controlled and Forced Transitions,”
  Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Delft, Netherlands, July 2024

• Lasse Peters, Andrea Bajcsy, Chih-Yuan Chiu, David Fridovich-Keil, Forrest Laine, Laura Ferranti, Javier Alonso-Mora,
  “Contingency Games for Multi-Agent Interaction,”
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 2208-2215, March 2024

Jury Members

• Marilena Venditelli (University of Rome La Sapienza)
• Andrew Sabelhaus (Boston University)
• Ian Abraham (Yale University)