Mr. Koganti and Prof. Shibata have received the best application paper award of IROS 2015.

On Oct 1st 2015, Mr. Nishanth Koganti (a special research student) and Prof. Tomohiro Shibata have received ICROS Award for the Best Application Paper Award of IROS 2015. IROS is a prestigious international conference for robotics. This study was led by Prof. Shibata, and was a collaborative work with Nara Institute of Science and Technology. It is about their world-leading study on clothing assistance robot. In this paper, they proposed to use Kinect V2 (Microsoft Corp.) instead of expensive, space-consuming, and relatively hard-to-use optical-marker based motion capturing systems, in order to automatically recognize cloth-human relationship necessary to accomplish clothing, and showed feasibility and plausibility through experiments with a dual-arm robot.

■The award-winning paper
Authors: Koganti, N., Ngeo, G.J., Tamei, T., Ikeda, K., Shibata, T.
Title: Cloth dynamics modeling in latent spaces and its application to robotic clothing assistance

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