We are excited to announce that our PhD researcher Zhenxiang Huang and his co-authors won a IEEE ICRA Best Student Paper Award in 2026. The paper, titled 'LASER: Level-Based Asynchronous Scheduling and Execution Regime for Spatiotemporally Constrained Multi-Robot Timber Manufacturing', is written by Zhenxiang Huang, Lior Skoury, Tim Stark, Aaron Wagner, Hans Jakob Wagner, Thomas Wortmann, and Achim Menges.
This award recognises the best paper authored primarily by a student and presented by the student at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). The award is funded by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and has been established since 1988. Papers are judged based on technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, clarity of the written paper, and quality of the conference presentation.
First author Zhenxiang Huang presented this paper during Award Session 2 at ICRA 2026 on June 2nd. This paper has been selected as an award finalist in Best Paper Award in Automation.
The award was presented during ICRA 2026 Awards Lunch on June 4th in Vienna, Austria.
More information about the award can be found here.
Huang, Z., Skoury, L., Stark, T., Wagner, A., Wagner, H. J., Wortmann, T., & Menges, A. (2026). LASER: Level-Based Asynchronous Scheduling and Execution Regime for Spatiotemporally Constrained Multi-Robot Timber Manufacturing. arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.20577
The full text of the paper is available here
Congratulations to Zhenxiang Huang and his co-authors, Lior Skoury, Tim Stark, Aaron Wagner, Hans-Jakob Wagner, Thomas Wortmann & Achim Menges on this great achievement.