{"636082":{"#nid":"636082","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dellaert Awarded IEEE ICRA Milestone Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFrank Dellaert\u003C\/strong\u003E, a professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E, and affiliated with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EMachine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGVU Center\u003C\/a\u003E, has been honored with the IEEE ICRA Milestone Award at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.icra2020.org\/\u0022\u003E2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA.)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award recognizes the most influential ICRA paper published between 1998-2002 and selected\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ri.cmu.edu\/pub_files\/pub1\/dellaert_frank_1999_2\/dellaert_frank_1999_2.pdf\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMonte Carlo Localization for Mobile Robots\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;as this year\u0026rsquo;s recipient. Dellaert conducted this work during his Ph.D studies at Carnegie Mellon University with\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EDieter Fox, Wolfram Burgard\u003C\/strong\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESebastian Thrun\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It is a great honor to be recognized, but receiving a \u0026rsquo;20 years on\u0026rsquo; milestone award also makes you feel old!\u0026rdquo; said Dellaert.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe paper was accepted to ICRA in 1999 and introduced the Monte Carlo Localization (MLC) method or particle filter localization, which represents the probability density involved in maintaining a set of samples that are randomly drawn from it. This method is faster, more accurate, and less memory-intensive than earlier grid-based methods and allows a robot to be localized without knowledge of its starting location.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMCL is simple to apply to the robotics domain, leading to its popularity. It is now taught in every robotics 101 class around the world. Many mobile robots, including commercial efforts, rely on MCL for localizing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Simplicity is key for acceptance and you cannot predict which of your research will have the most impact. This paper was a result of me procrastinating on my Ph.D. thesis which is a paper almost nobody read. It is an enormous honor that MCL has made a lasting impact on our field,\u0026rdquo; said Dellaert.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The award recognizes the most influential ICRA paper published between 1998-2002 and selected\u00a0Monte Carlo Localization for Mobile Robots\u00a0as this year\u2019s recipient. 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