Javier Alonso-Mora and team receive IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Multi-Robot Systems

The paper "Distributed Multi-Robot Formation Splitting and Merging in Dynamic Environments", by Hai Zhu, Jelle Juhl, Laura Ferranti, Javier Alonso-Mora has won the IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Multi-Robot Systems during the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, the robotics flagship conference in Montreal in May 2019. 

Paper: http://www.alonsomora.com/docs/19-zhu-icra.pdf 
Video: youtu.be/Kx14E98Iqng
Web: http://www.alonsomora.com 

This award recognizes the best paper on Multi-Robot Systems presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

Basis for Judging: A selection committee is appointed by the ICRA Awards Committee with members who have appropriate expertise in the field of on Multi-Robot Systems. Papers are judged based on technical merit, originality, relevance and potential impact on the human-robot interaction field, clarity of the written paper, and quality of the conference presentation.