Georges Giralt PhD Award

List of prizewinners

Sixth Award (given 2007)
Pierre Lamon, EPFL, Switzerland,
"3D position tracking for all-terrain robots".
Pierre Lamon
Fifth Award (given 2006)
Martijn Wisse, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands,
"Essentials of dynamic walking: Analysis and design of two-legged robots".
Martijn Wisse
Fourth Award (given 2005)
Juan Andrade Cetto, Institute of Robotics - Spanish Council of Scientific Research / Technical University of Catalonia (CSIC/UPC),
"Environment Learning for Indoors Mobile Robots".
Juan Andrade Cetto
Third Award (given 2004)
Guilles Duchemin, Universite de Montpellier,
"Force control and programming of a medical assistant robot in contact with soft tissues".
Second Award (given 2003)
Ralph Koeppe, Kuka/ETH/DLR, Germany,
"Robot Compliant Motion based on Human Skills".
First Award (given 2002)
Two winners shared the first Georges Giralt PhD Award:

  • Gianluca Antonelli, University of Naples, Italy,
    "Motion and force control of underwater vehicle-manipulator systems".
  • Jens-Steffen Gutmann, Institut für Informatik, University of Freiburg, Germany,
    "Robust Navigation for Autonomous Mobile Robots".
 

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