Here you can read short presentations about the winners of the former Robotdalen Scientific Award:
The winner of the Robotdalen Scientific Award 2010 was Dr. Matei Ciocarlie from Columbia University, USA. He participated with his thesis Low-Dimensional Robotic Grasping: Eigengrasp Subspaces and Optimized Underactuation.
The winner of the Robotdalen Scientific Award 2009 was Dr Davide Scaramuzza from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland. He participated with his thesis Omnidirectional Vision: from Calibration to Robot Motion Estimation.
The winner of the Robotdalen Scientific Award 2008 was Dr Sylvain Calinon from the University Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland. He participated in the competition with his thesis Continuous Extraction of Task Constraints in a Robot Programming by Demonstration Framework.
The winner of the Robotdalen Scientific Award 2007 was Dr Eric Demeester from the Katholieke Universiteit in Belgium. He entered the competition with his thesis User-adapted plan recognition and shared control for wheelchair driver assistance under uncertainty.