IEEE ICRA best paper award for CASCB researchers
Collective behaviour robotic researchers Heiko Hamann, Jonas Kuckling and Andreagiovanni Reina have won the best paper award at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Heiko Hamann, Jonas Kuckling, and Andreagiovanni Reina from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz together with co-authors Robin Luckey, Viktor Avrutin, and Andrew Vardy won the best paper award at the ICRA 2024 in Japan. Their contribution “Do We Run Large-scale Multi-robot Systems on the Edge? More Evidence for Two-phase Performance in System Size Scaling” convinced the jury in the area “multi-robotics”.
“We are all very happy for this achievement”, the team says. “It gives us extreme visibility because basically the complete world’s robotics research community was there.” Heiko Hamann adds: “Especially for our postdoc Jonas it can be a great boost for setting up his academic career in robotics. It is very motivating and encouraging that the community perceives our research as relevant, novel, and top quality.”
The conference took place in Yokohama, Japan, in May 2024. The ICRA counts as the world’s biggest robotic conference with around 2000 presented papers and about 6.500 participants.