All articles published by MDPI are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. No special
permission is required to reuse all or part of the article published by MDPI, including figures and tables. For
articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without
permission provided that the original article is clearly cited. For more information, please refer to
https://www.mdpi.com/openaccess.
Feature papers represent the most advanced research with significant potential for high impact in the field. A Feature
Paper should be a substantial original Article that involves several techniques or approaches, provides an outlook for
future research directions and describes possible research applications.
Feature papers are submitted upon individual invitation or recommendation by the scientific editors and must receive
positive feedback from the reviewers.
Editor’s Choice articles are based on recommendations by the scientific editors of MDPI journals from around the world.
Editors select a small number of articles recently published in the journal that they believe will be particularly
interesting to readers, or important in the respective research area. The aim is to provide a snapshot of some of the
most exciting work published in the various research areas of the journal.
As Editor-in-Chief of Robotics, it is my pleasure to announce the winner of the 2020 Travel Award sponsored by Robotics.
The award has been granted to Dr. Gabriele Costante, Ph.D. at the Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy. His research interests are exploring and devising solutions for Robot Perception and Action Planning through Computer Vision and Deep Learning techniques.
With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their work, collectively covering a diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate the winner on his accomplishment.
Prof. Dr. Marco Ceccarelli Editor-in-Chief
Robotics 2020 Travel Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Inho Kim
California Institute of Technology, USA
Award Committee
Prof. Marco Ceccarelli
Chairman
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Prof. Dr. Kean Aw
University of Auckland
Dr. David Portugal
Winner
Nicole D'Aurizio
University of Siena, Italy
Award Committee
Prof. Marco Ceccarelli
Chairman
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Prof. Huosheng Hu
University of Essex
Prof. Giuseppe Carbone
University of Calabria
Prof. Xinjun Liu
Tsinghua University
Winner
Wenzhong Yan
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Riddhiman Laha
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Award Committee
Prof. Marco Ceccarelli
Chairman
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Prof. Gursel Alici
University of Wollongong
Prof. Xinjun Liu
Tsinghua University
Winner
Gabriele Costante
University of Perugia, Italy
Winner
Lawrence Kim
Stanford University, CA, USA
Winner
Martin Garrad
University of Bristol, UK; University of the West of England, UK
Winner
Piyamate Wisanuvej
Imperial College London, UK
We use cookies on our website to ensure you get the best experience.
Read more about our cookies here.