Dick Volz Award

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The Dick Volz Best US PhD Thesis in Robotics and Automation is a yearly award to recognize outstanding Ph.D. thesis in the field of robotics and automation at any research institution in the United States of America. It is awarded with a four years delay as it is based both on thesis quality as well as post-graduation impact, hence, the 2007 Dick Volz Best US PhD Thesis Award was awarded in 2011. Its European counterpart is the Georges Giralt PhD Award.[1]

The award is named after Professor Emeritus . He was a former Texas A&M Department of Computer Science department head and the president of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society in 2006-2007.[2] To honor his outstanding research on robotics and control as well as his mentoring, the Dick Volz Best US PhD Thesis in Robotics and Automation was established. The list of award recipients includes the following:

Year Dick Volz Award Dick Volz Runner-Up Award Awarded in
2007 , Johns Hopkins University Jan Peters, USC[3] 2011
2008 Pieter Abbeel, Stanford University[4] Michael Kaess, Georgia Institute of Technology
, MIT[5]		 2012
2009 TBA at R:SS 2013 TBA at R:SS 2013 2013

The award committee includes Seth A. Hutchinson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), John M. Hollerbach (University of Utah), Vijay Kumar (University of Pennsylvania), (University of Southern California), and Henrik I. Christensen (Georgia Tech).

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  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-12-07. Retrieved 2016-03-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Computer Science and Engineering".
  3. ^ "2011 Robotics: Science and Systems".
  4. ^ http://www.i-ras.unicas.it/aggregator/sources/8
  5. ^ http://www.i-ras.unicas.it/aggregator/sources/8
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