Groundbreaking research
Emilio Frazzoli, ETH Professor of Dynamical Systems and Control, together with Sertac Karaman, received the RSS Test of Time Award 2022, which goes to high impact research published at least ten years ago in the field of robotics.
Emilio Frazzoli and Sertac Karaman, formerly Frazzoli’s doctoral student and now Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published their research on "external page Incremental Sampling-based Algorithms for Optimal Motion Planning" back in 2010. This laid the groundwork for the introduction of PRM and RRT algorithms, which are widely used in robotics today. The Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Test of Time Award was presented at the RSS virtual conference this summer.