The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers, based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and their oral presentation at the conference.

Best Paper Award
COMPARYING A TABU SEARCH PROCESS - Using and Not Using and Intensification Strategy to Solve the Vehicle Routing Problem
Etiene Pozzobom Lazzeris Simas and Arthur Tórgo Gómez

Best Student Paper Award
A MULTI CRITERIA EVALUATION OVER A FINITE SCALE FOR MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES OF A MOTORWAY OPERATOR
Céline Sanchez, Jacky Montmain, Marc Vinches and Brigitte Mahieu

Best Paper Award
A DYNAMIC MODEL OF A BUOYANCY SYSTEM IN A WAVE ENERGY POWER PLANT
Tom Pedersen and Kirsten M. Nielsen

Best Student Paper Award
PARAMETER TUNING OF ROUTING PROTOCOLS TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF MOBILE ROBOT TELEOPERATION VIA WIRELESS AD-HOC NETWORKS
Florian Zeiger, Nikolaus Kraemer and Klaus Schilling

Best Paper Award
FROM BENDING TO LINEAR MOVEMENT - A Linear Actuation Mechanism based on Conducting Polymer Actuators
Elise T. Burriss, Gursel Alici, Geoffrey M. Spinks and Scott McGovern

Best Student Paper Award
HIERARCHICAL PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION OF ROBOT REACHABLE WORKSPACE
Jing Yang, Patrick Dymond and Michael Jenkin

Best Paper Award
Area: Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization
PREDICTION OF TEMPERATURE INSIDE A REFRIGERATED CONTAINER IN THE PRESENCE OF PERISHABLE GOODS
Javier Palafox-Albarrán, Reiner Jedermann and Walter Lang

Area: Robotics and Automation
GRASPING WITH VISION DESCRIPTORS AND MOTOR PRIMITIVES
Oliver Kroemer, Renaud Detry, Justus Piater and Jan Peters

Area: Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control
DISTRIBUTED KALMAN FILTER-BASED TARGET TRACKING IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Phuong Pham and Sesh Commuri

Best Student Paper Award
Area: Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization
A PASSIVITY-BASED APPROACH TO DEPLOYMENT IN MULTI-AGENT NETWORKS
Heath LeBlanc, Emeka Eyisi, Nicholas Kottenstette, Xenofon Koutsoukos and Janos Sztipanovits

Area: Robotics and Automation
REMOTE CONTROL OF A MOBILE ROBOT SUBJECT TO A COMMUNICATION DELAY
A. Alvarez-Aguirre, H. Nijmeijer, T. Oguchi and K. Kojima

Area: Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control
ROBUSTNESS OF ISS SYSTEMS TO INPUTS WITH LIMITED MOVING AVERAGE, WITH APPLICATION TO SPACECRAFT FORMATIONS
Esten Ingar Grøtli, Antoine Chaillet, Elena Panteley and Jan Tommy Gravdahl

Best Paper Award
STUDY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESCUE ROBOT PREVENTING CRUSH SYNDROME OF EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS
Taku Sahashi, Akira Sahashi, Hisashi Uchiyama and Ichiro Fukumoto

Best Student Paper Award
NONPARAMETRIC VIRTUAL SENSORS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING - Using Information Theoretic Learning and Kernel Machines
Andrea Schirru, Simone Pampuri, Cristina De Luca and Giuseppe De Nicolao

Special Mention
HIDDEN ATTRACTOR IN CHUA'S CIRCUITS
N. V. Kuznetsov, O. A. Kuznetsova, G. A. Leonov and V. I. Vagaytsev