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The announcements are made at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation awards event. The winners and honorable mentions of the “RA-L Best Paper Award” for each previous year are listed below.</span></h3> <hr /> <h2><strong>2023</strong></h2> <p><span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Winners</span></p> <p>Ignacio Vizzo, Tiziano Guadagnino, Benedikt Mersch, Louis Wiesmann, Jens Behley, and Cyrill Stachniss, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10015694/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KISS-ICP: In Defense of Point-to-Point ICP – Simple, Accurate, and Robust Registration If Done the Right Way</a>", vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 1029-1036, Feb. 2023</p> <p>Edmundo Pozo Fortunić, Mehmet C. Yildirim, Dennis Ossadnik, Abdalla Swikir, Saeed Abdolshah, and Sami Haddadin, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10287538" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Optimally Controlling the Timing of Energy Transfer in Elastic Joints: Experimental Validation of the Bi-Stiffness Actuation Concept</a>", vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 8106-8113, Dec. 2023.</p> <p>Seth Isaacson, Pou-Chun Kung, Mani Ramanagopal, Ram Vasudevan, and Katherine A. Skinner, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10284988" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LONER: LiDAR Only Neural Representations for Real-Time SLAM</a>", vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 8042-8049, Dec. 2023</p> <p>Chenxing Jiang, Hanwen Zhang, Peize Liu, Zehuan Yu, Hui Cheng, Boyu Zhou, and Shaojie Shen, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10243098" target="_blank" rel="noopener">H2-Mapping: Real-Time Dense Mapping Using Hierarchical Hybrid Representation</a>", vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 6787-6794, Oct. 2023</p> <p>Lixian Zhang, Chengzhe Han, Yimin Zhu, Yifei Dong, Xiaoyu Ji, Zhenting Zhao, and Jianan Yang, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10287555" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grasping Lightweight Objects With Chat-PM: A Rotorwash-Aware Motion Planning Method</a>", vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 8114-8121, Dec. 2023</p> <p>Honorable Mentions</p> <p>Elias Marks, Matteo Sodano, Federico Magistri, Louis Wiesmann, Dhagash Desai, Rodrigo Marcuzzi, Jens Behley, and Cyrill Stachniss, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10158793" target="_blank" rel="noopener">High Precision Leaf Instance Segmentation for Phenotyping in Point Clouds Obtained Under Real Field Conditions</a>", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 4791-4798, Aug. 2023</p> <p>Alessio De Luca, Luca Muratore, and Nikos G. Tsagarakis, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10243138" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Autonomous Navigation With Online Replanning and Recovery Behaviors for Wheeled-Legged Robots Using Behavior Trees</a>", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 6803-6810, Oct. 2023</p> <p>Jan Ole von Hartz, Eugenio Chisari, Tim Welschehold, Wolfram Burgard, Joschka Boedecker, and Abhinav Valada, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10246319" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Treachery of Images: Bayesian Scene Keypoints for Deep Policy Learning in Robotic Manipulation</a>", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 6931-6938, Nov. 2023</p> <p>Shuo Cheng and Danfei Xu, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10227514" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LEAGUE: Guided Skill Learning and Abstraction for Long-Horizon Manipulation</a>", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 6451-6458, Oct. 2023</p> <p>Ozan Unal, Dengxin Dai, Ali Tamer Unal, and Luc Van Gool, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10266679" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Discwise Active Learning for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation</a>", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters; vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 7671-7678, Nov. 2023</p> <div></div> <h2><strong>2022</strong></h2> <p><span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Winners</span></p> <p>Karl Van Wyk, Mandy Xie, Anqi Li, Muhammad Asif Rana, Buck Babich, Bryan Peele, Qian Wan, Iretiayo Akinola, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Dieter Fox, Byron Boots, and Nathan D. Ratliff, <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9682604" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Geometric Fabrics: Generalizing Classical Mechanics to Capture the Physics of Behavior,"</a> in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume 7, Issue 2, pages 3202-3209, April 2022</p> <p>Amy Kyungwon Han, Amar Hajj-Ahmad, and Mark R. Cutkosky, <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9732638" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Bimanual Handling of Deformable Objects With Hybrid Adhesion,"</a> in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume 7, Issue 2, pages 5497-5503, April 2022</p> <p>Oier Mee, Lukas Hermann, Erick Rosete-Beas, and Wolfram Burgard, <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9788026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"CALVIN: A Benchmark for Language-Conditioned Policy Learning for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation Tasks," </a>in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume 7, Issue 3, pages 7327-7334, July 2022</p> <p>Minho Oh, Euigon Jung, Hyungtae Lim, Wonho Song, Sumin Hu, Eunchang Mason Lee, Junghee Park, Jaekyung Kim, Jangwoo Lee, and Hyun Myung,<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9794594" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"TRAVEL: Traversable Ground and Above-Ground Object Segmentation Using Graph Representation of 3D LiDAR Scans,"</a> in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume 7, Issue 3, pages 7255-7262, July 2022</p> <p>Hwayeong Jeong, Jirou Feng, and Jung Kim, <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9925437" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"2.5D Laser-Cutting-Based Customized Fabrication of Long-Term Wearable Textile sEMG Sensor: From Design to Intention Recognition,"</a> in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume 7, Issue 4, pages 10367-10374, October 2022</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: underline;">Honorable Mentions</span></p> <p>Shubham Singh, Ryan P. Russell, and Patrick M. Wensing, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9674779" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Efficient Analytical Derivatives of Rigid-Body Dynamics Using Spatial Vector Algebra</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume 7, Issue 2, pages 1776-1783, April 2022</p> <p>Di Chen, Zhengxing Wu, Pengfei Zhang, Min Tan, and Junzhi Yu, <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9681242" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Performance Improvement of a High-Speed Swimming Robot for Fish-Like Leaping," </a>in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume 7, Issue 2, pages 1936-1943, April 2022</p> <p>Xu Liu, Decai Li, and Yuqing He, <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9721684" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"A Unified Framework for Large-Scale Occupancy Mapping and Terrain Modeling Using RMM,"</a> in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume 7, Issue 2, pages 5143-5150, April 2022</p> <p>Marie Harder, Manuel Keppler, Xuming Meng, Christian Ott, Hannes Höppner, and Alexander Dietrich, <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9779469" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Simultaneous Motion Tracking and Joint Stiffness Control of Bidirectional Antagonistic Variable-Stiffness Actuators,"</a> in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume 7, Issue 3, pages 6614-6621, July 2022</p> <p>David Cáceres Domínguez, Marco Iannotta, Johannes A. Stork, Erik Schaffernicht, and Todor Stoyanov, <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9907864" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"A Stack-of-Tasks Approach Combined With Behavior Trees: A New Framework for Robot Control,"</a> in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume 7, Issue 4, pages 12110-12117, October 2022</p> <div></div> <h2><strong>2021</strong></h2> <p><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Winners</span></p> <p>Sihao Sun; Giovanni Cioffi; Coen de Visser; Davide Scaramuzza, <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9312462">"Autonomous Quadrotor Flight Despite Rotor Failure With Onboard Vision Sensors: Frames vs. Events," </a>in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 580-587, January 2021 (Online publication: 01 January 2021)</p> <p>Anh-Dzung Doan, Yasir Latif, Tat-Jun Chin, Ian Reid, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9250504">HM<sup>4</sup>: Hidden Markov Model With Memory Management for Visual Place Recognition</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 167-174, January 2021 (Online publication: 06 November 2020)</p> <p>David Bombara, Revanth Konda, Jun Zhang, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9345383">Experimental Characterization and Modeling of the Self-Sensing Property in Compliant Twisted String Actuators</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 974-981, April 2021 (Online publication: 02 February 2021)</p> <p>Gregory P. Meyer, Jake Charland, Shreyash Pandey, Ankit Laddha; Shivam Gautam; Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez; Carl K. Wellington, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9310205">LaserFlow: Efficient and Probabilistic Object Detection and Motion Forecasting</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 526-533, April 2021. (Online publication: 29 December 2020)</p> <p>Peizhi Zhang, Mitsuhiro Kamezaki, Zhuoyi He, Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Shigeki Sugano, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9502558">EPM–MRE: Electropermanent Magnet–Magnetorheological Elastomer for Soft Actuation System and Its Application to Robotic Grasping</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 8181-8188, July 2021 (Online publication: 30 July 2021)</p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Honorable Mentions</span></p> <p>Binbin Xu, Andrew J. Davison, Stefan Leutenegger, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9264717">Deep Probabilistic Feature-Metric Tracking</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 223-230, January 2021 (Online publication: 19 November 2020)</p> <p>Letian Wang, Liting Sun, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Wei Zhan, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9361150">Socially-Compatible Behavior Design of Autonomous Vehicles With Verification on Real Human Data</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2,  pp. 3421-3428, April 2021 (Online publication: 23 February 2021)</p> <p>Keunhwan Kim, Jonghwi Kim, Jinwhan Kim, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9444206">Robust Data Association for Multi-Object Detection in Maritime Environments Using Camera and Radar Measurements</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 5865-5872, July 2021 (Online publication: 28 May 2021)</p> <p>Di Wu, Yao Zhang, Mouloud Ourak, Kenan Niu, Jenny Dankelman, Emmanuel Vander Poorten, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9360444">Hysteresis Modeling of Robotic Catheters Based on Long Short-Term Memory Network for Improved Environment Reconstruction</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 2106-2113, February 2021 (Online publication: 22 February 2021)</p> <p>Vishnu Dev Amara, Jörn Malzahn; Wesley Roozing, Nikos Tsagarakis, “<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9360453">Blending of Series-Parallel Compliant Actuation With Field Weakening Control for Explosive Motion Generation</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 2076-2083, April 2021 (Online Publication: 22 February 2021)</p> <hr /> <h2><strong>2020</strong></h2> <p><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Winners</span></p> <p>G. Valsecchi, R. Grandia, and M. Hutter, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8968320" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Quadrupedal Locomotion on Uneven Terrain With Sensorized Feet</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1548-1555, April 2020 (Online publication: 24 January 2020)</p> <p>K. Xu and N. Pérez-Arancibia, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9121677" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Electronics-Free Logic Circuits for Localized Feedback Control of Multi-Actuator Soft Robots</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 3990-3997, July 2020 (Online publication: 23 March 2020)</p> <p>Y. Chen, N. Doshi, and R. Wood, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9121677" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inverted and Inclined Climbing Using Capillary Adhesion in a Quadrupedal Insect-Scale Robot</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4820-4827, July 2020. (Online publication: 19 June 2020)</p> <p>D. Morrison, P. Corke, and J. Leitner, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9085936" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EGAD! An Evolved Grasping Analysis Dataset for Diversity and Reproducibility in Robotic Manipulation</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4368-4375, July 2020 (Online publication: 13 May 2020)</p> <p>Z. Zhou, X. Chen, and O. Jenkins, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9113653" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LIT: Light-Field Inference of Transparency for Refractive Object Localization</a>,“ in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4548-4555, July 2020. (Online publication:10 June 2020)</p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Honorable Mentions</span></p> <p>H. Yang, P. Antonante, V. Tzoumas, and L. Carlone, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8957085" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception: From Non-Minimal Solvers to Global Outlier Rejection</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1127-1134, April 2020  (Online publication: 13 January 2020)</p> <p>P. Kornatowski, M. Feroskhan, W. Stewart, and D. Floreano, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9091043" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Morphing Cargo Drone for Safe Flight in Proximity of Humans</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4233-4240, July 2020. (Online publication: 11 May 2020)</p> <p>Y. Tian, A. Koppel, A. Bedi, and J. How, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9143442" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asynchronous and Parallel Distributed Pose Graph Optimization</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 5819-5826, Oct. 2020.(Online publication: 17 July 2020)</p> <p>B. Rivière, W. Hönig, Y. Yue, and S. Chung, "<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9091314" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GLAS: Global-to-Local Safe Autonomy Synthesis for Multi-Robot Motion Planning With End-to-End Learning</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 4249-4256, July 2020. (Online publication: 11 May 2020)</p> <hr /> <h2><strong>2019</strong></h2> <p><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Winners</span></p> <p>P. Florence, L. Manuelli, and R. Tedrake, "<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2019.2956365">Self-Supervised Correspondence in Visuomotor Policy Learning</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 492-499, 2020. (Online publication: 28 November 2019)</p> <p>Y.-J. Kim, J. Yoon, and Y.-W. Sim, “<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2019.2929988">Fluid Lubricated Dexterous Finger Mechanism for Human-Like Impact Absorbing Capability</a>,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters , vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 3971-3978, 2019. (Online publication: 22 July 2019)</p> <p>T. Kislassi and D. Zarrouk, "<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2019.2959237">A Minimally Actuated Reconfigurable Continuous Track Robot</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 652-659, 2020. (Online publication: 11 December 2019)</p> <p>N. Kuppuswamy, A. Castro, C. Phillips-Grafflin, A. Alspach, and R. Tedrake, “<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2019.2961050">Fast Model-Based Contact Patch and Pose Estimation for Highly Deformable Dense-Geometry Tactile Sensors</a>,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 1811-1818, 2020. (Online publication: 19 December 2019)</p> <p>T. Ort, K. Murthy, R. Banerjee, S. K. Gottipati, D. Bhatt, I. Gilitschenski, L. Paull, and D. Rus, "<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2019.2961051">MapLite: Autonomous Intersection Navigation Without a Detailed Prior Map</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 556-563, 2020. (Online publication: 19 December 2019.</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Honorable Mentions</span> </p> <p>C. Della Santina and Daniela Rus, “<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2019.2955936">Control Oriented Modeling of Soft Robots: The Polynomial Curvature Case</a>,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 290-298, 2020. (Online publication: 26 November 2019)</p> <p>G. Shan, Z. Zhang, C. Dai, X. Wang, L.-T. Chu, Y. Sun, “<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2019.2952998">Model-Based Robotic Cell Aspiration: Tackling Nonlinear Dynamics and Varying Cell Sizes</a>,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters<i>, </i>vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 173-178, 2020. (Online publication: 11 November 2019)</p> <p>J.-B. Weibel, T. Patten, and M. Vincze, “<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2019.2959497">Addressing the Sim2Real Gap in Robotic 3-D Object Classification</a>,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 407-413, 2020. (Online publication: 12 December 2019)</p> <p>S. Zhou, H. Zhao, W. Chen, Z. Miao, Z. Liu, H. Wang and Y.-H. Liu, “<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2019.2956380">Robust Path Following of the Tractor-Trailers System in GPS-Denied Environments</a>,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 500-507, 2020. (Online publication: 29 November 2019)</p> <p>S. Itadera, E. Dean-Leon, J. Nakanishi, Y. Hasegawa, G. Cheng, “<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2019.2928770">Predictive Optimization of Assistive Force in Admittance Control-Based Physical Interaction for Robotic Gait Assistance</a>,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 3609-3616, 2019. (Online publication: 15 July 2019)</p> <p> </p> <div><hr /></div> <h2><strong>2018</strong></h2> <br /> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Winner</span></p> <p>B. Penin, P. R. Giordano, and F. Chaumette, "<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2018.2856526">Vision-Based Reactive Planning for Aggressive Target Tracking While Avoiding Collisions and Occlusions</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 3725-3732, Oct. 2018.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Honorable Mentions</span></p> <p>R. Calandra, A. Owens, D. Jayaraman, J. Lin, W. Yuan, J. Malik, E. H. Adelson, and S. Levine, "<a style="background-color: white;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2018.2793357">More Than a Feeling: Learning to Grasp and Regrasp Using Vision and Touch</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 3300-3307, Oct. 2018.</p> <div>A. R. Vidal, H. Rebecq, T. Horstschaefer and D. Scaramuzza, "<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2018.2852779">Ultimate SLAM? Combining Events, Images, and IMU for Robust Visual SLAM in HDR and High-Speed Scenarios</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 994-1001, April 2018.</div> <div><hr /></div> <h2><strong>2017 </strong></h2> <p> <br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Winner</span></p> <p>C. Garcia Cifuentes, J. Issac, M. Wüthrich, S. Schaal and J. Bohg, "<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2016.2645124">Probabilistic Articulated Real-Time Tracking for Robot Manipulation</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 577-584, April 2017. doi: 10.1109/LRA.2016.2645124</p> <hr /> <h2><strong>2016  </strong></h2> <div> <br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Winner:</span>  </div> <p>T. Bartelds, A. Capra, S. Hamaza, S. Stramigioli and M. Fumagalli, "<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2016.2519948">Compliant Aerial Manipulators: Toward a New Generation of Aerial Robotic Workers</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 477-483, Jan. 2016.<br /><br /></p> <div><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Winner:</span>  M. C. Yip and D. B. Camarillo, "<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2016.2526062">Model-Less Hybrid Position/Force Control: A Minimalist Approach for Continuum Manipulators in Unknown, Constrained Environments</a>," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 844-851, July 2016.<br /><br /></div> <div class="clearfix"></div></article> <div id="content-column-1" class="col-md-3 col-md-pull-9"> <hr class="visible-sm-block visible-xs-block" /> <ul class="nav navbar-nav menu"> <li id="secondary-nav" class="menu-title visible-sm visible-xs">Publications</li><li class="item-272 child"><a href="/publications/subscription-information" ><span>Subscription Information</span></a></li><li class="item-1720 child"><a href="/publications/video-submission-guidelines" ><span>Video Submission Guidelines</span></a></li><li class="item-662 active deeper parent"><a href="/publications/ra-l" ><span>RA-L</span></a><ul class="nav-child"><li class="item-664 child"><a href="/publications/ra-l/faq" 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