A strong congratulations to Xiaotong and Vanessa. Their paper, “Bayesian Intention for Human–Robot Collaboration,” received the Best Application Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering.
In this work, they propose a novel statistical framework to predict human intentions in collaborative scenarios, enabling robots to respond more intuitively and effectively. The approach is demonstrated on a UR5 robot, showing how predictive modeling can facilitate smoother and more natural human–robot collaboration.
The full paper can be found here.