The following table lists major awards given to JPL Robotics personnel over the past 20 years. Please click on the award names for more information.
| Year | Award Name | Effort | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Popular Science Best of What's New | Asteroid Anchors | Aaron Parness; Matt Frost |
| 2012 | NASA Early Career Achievement Medal | For exceptional technical achievement developing autonomous dexterous manipulation technology applicable to NASA and terrestrial applications. | Nicolas Hudson |
| 2012 | NASA Group Achievement Award | For the development of autonomous robotic manipulation software technology, which leads the nation in capability and has utility in NASA missions and terrestrial applications. | Autonomous Robotic Manipulation Software Team |
| 2011 | NASA Group Achievement Award | For exemplary performance in development and transition of first-of-its-kind intelligent autonomy technology derived from NASA flight missions to the US Navy maritime domain. | Intelligent Autonomy for Unmanned Vehicles Team |
| 2011 | NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal | For exemplary leadership and effort in engineering the technical success of the All-Terrain Hex Limbed Extraterrestrial Explorer (ATHLETE) robotic vehicle research project. | Jaret B. Matthews |
| 2011 | NASA Exceptional Service Medal | For exceptional service leading the Mobility and Robotic Systems Section to the forefront of flight and technology development. | Richard A. Volpe |
| 2010 | NASA Group Achievement Award | For successful implementation of the R9.3 software enabling Mars Exploration Rover operations past 2010. | MER R9.3 Flight Software Team |
| 2010 | NASA Group Achievement Award | For the quick and extensive action by the operations team that permitted the Spirit rover to survive a massive and fast moving global Martian dust storm. | MER Spirit Dust Storm Survival Team |
| 2010 | IEEE Aerospace Conference Best Paper | Analysis of Flash Lidar Field Test Data for Safe Lunar Landing, IEEE Aerospace Conference, 6-13 March 2010 | Tonislav Ivanov, A. E. Johnson, J. A. Keim |
| 2009 | King-Sun Fu Best IEEE Transactions on Robotics Paper Award | Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation for Spacecraft Entry, Descent, and Landing, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 25, No. 2, Page(s): 264 - 280 | Adnan Ansar, Larry Matthies, A. I. Mourikis, N. Trawny, S. I. Roumeliotis, A. E. Johnson |
| 2009 | NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal | For outstanding leadership of the Phoenix mission Robotic Arm system development. | Robert Bonitz |
| 2009 | NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal | For the successful maturation, validation, and deployment of the Visual Targeting Tracking capability for the Mars Exploration Rover mission. | Won Kim |
| 2009 | NASA Group Achievement Award | For outstanding achievement in developing an innovative Mars entry, descent, and landing simulation and targeting tool for the Phoenix and Mars Science Laboratory missions. | DSENDS Team |
| 2009 | NASA Group Achievement Award | For outstanding contributions to the development and operations of the Aerobot Testbed in support of proposed NASA Titan missions. | Titan Aerobot Testbed Development Team |
| 2009 | NASA Group Achievement Award | For successful implementation, delivery, and operation of the payload for the Phoenix Mars Lander. | Phoenix Project Payload Team |
| 2008 | NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal | Leadership and effective collaboration oversight of the technology infusion of new autonomy software into the MER flight software. | Khaled Ali |
| 2008 | IEEE Robotics and Automation Award | For contributions to robotics enabling effective autonomous operations of science investigations under extreme conditions on the planet Mars. | Paul Backes, Larry Matthies, Eric Baumgartner |
| 2007 | NASA Inventions and Contributions Board Major Space Act Award | Mars Exploration Rovers Flight Software | Khaled Ali, Jeffrey Biesiadecki, Robert Bonitz, Mark Maimone, Todd Litwin, Chris Leger |
| 2007 | IEEE Region 6 Outstanding Engineer award | For exceptional technical leadership in diagnosing the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity robotic arm anomaly culminating in a successful resolution of the problem and continued use of the arm in extended mission operations. Also for exceptional service to the IEEE as a Guest Editor in organizing and publishing a special issue of IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine on Mars Exploration Rovers, June 2006. | Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu |
| 2007 | Institution of Engineering and Technology Achievement Medal - Sir Monty Finniston Award for an outstanding technical contribution to an engineering project | Mars Exploration Rovers extended mission operations and engineering. | Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu |
| 2007 | Robotics Society of Japan, Best Paper Award | For the paper, "Slip-compensated path following for planetary exploration rovers," Advanced Robotics, Vol.20, No.11, pp.1257-1280, October, 2006. | Daniel Helmick, Yang Cheng, Daniel Clouse, Max Bajracharya, Larry Matthies |
| 2007 | NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal | Computer Vision Research and Mission Infusion | Larry Matthies |
| 2007 | NASA Equal Employment Opportunity Medal | Robotics engineering in research and flight, and consistent support of Equal Opportunity Programs | Edward Tunstel |
| 2007 | NASA Group Achievement Award | Development of the Descent Image Motion Estimation System (DIMES) for the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission | Andrew Johnson, Yang Cheng, Reg Willson, Jay Goguen, Chris Leger, Miguel Sanmartin |
| 2007 | NASA Inventions and Contributions Board Major Space Act Award | Sub-pixel Fiducial Detection | Max Bajracharya |
| 2007 | NASA Inventions and Contributions Board Major Space Act Award | AUTOAPPROACH: System for Single Command Science Target Rendezvous | Terry Huntsberger, Yang Cheng, Chris Leger |
| 2006 | World Automation Congress Lifetime Career Achievement Award | In Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Multivariable Control Systems, Robotic Systems, and Space Applications | Homayoun Seraji |
| 2006 | ASPRS John I Davidson Award for Practical Papers | Initial Results of Rover Localization and Topographic Mapping for the 2003 MER Mission | Mark Maimone, Larry Matthies, et al. |
| 2006 | Center Best One NASA Peer Award | CLARAty: Coupled Layer Architecture For Robotic Autonomy | Issa Nesnas, et al. |
| 2006 | NASA Exceptional Service Medal | Control and Modelling Using Spatial Operators for Multibody Dynamics | Guillermo Rodriguez |
| 2005 | JPL Level A Bonus Award | Mars Exploration Rovers Slip Compensation | Mark Maimone |
| 2005 | NASA Inventions and Contributions Board Major Space Act Award | Configuration Control of Dexterous 7-DOF Robotic Arms | Homayoun Seraji |
| 2005 | The Industrial Robot Highly Commended Award | For the paper "LEMUR IIB: a Robotic System for Steep Terrain Access", at the CLAWAR 2005 conference. | Brett Kennedy, Avi Okon, Hrand Aghazarian, Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Mike Garrett, Lee Magnone, et al. |
| 2004 | Imager of the Year award, Advanced Imaging Magazine | Visualization and image processing software of the MER's Science Activity Planner (a.k.a. Maestro) | Mark Powell |
| 2004 | INCOSE Outstanding Paper Award | Towards a Systematic Approach for Selection of NASA Technology Portfolios | Alberto Elfes, et al. |
| 2004 | Journal of Robotic Systems | Most-published author in 20-year history | Homayoun Seraji |
| 2004 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Arab Student Organization Arab American Science and Technology Achievement Award | Cumulative | Khaled Ali |
| 2004 | NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal | Mars Exploration Rover Autonomous Surface Navigation System | Mark Maimone |
| 2004 | NASA Exceptional Service Medal | Mars Exploration Rovers Flight Software | Jeffrey Biesiadecki |
| 2004 | NASA Inventions and Contributions Board Major Space Act Award | Planetary Rover Absolute Heading Using a Sun-Sensor | Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu, et al. |
| 2004 | NASA Software Of The Year Award | Science Activity Planner | Jeff Norris, Mark Powell, Paul Backes, et al. |
| 2003 | Best Paper, International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR'03) | Sensory Fusion for Planetary Surface Robotic Navigation, Rendezvous, and Manipulation Operat | T. Huntsberger, Y. Cheng, E.T. Baumgartner, M. Robinson, and P.S. Schenker |
| 2003 | JPL Level A Bonus Award | Mars Technology Program Rover Technology Development | Richard Volpe |
| 2003 | NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal | Galileo, SSI Recovery | Greg Levanas |
| 2002 | JPL Edward Stone Award for Best Journal Publication | "Behavior-Based Robot Navigation on Challenging Terrain: A Fuzzy Logic Approach, IEEE Trans. R&A 18(3), June 2002." | Homayoun Seraji, Ayanna Howard |
| 2002 | JPL Lew Allen Award for Excellence | Early Career | Andrew Johnson |
| 2001 | NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal | For exceptional innovations in computer vision technology that enable autonomous navigation of rovers, landers, and orbiters | Larry Matthies |
| 2000 | NASA Group Achievement Award | MER/FIDO Black Rock Summit, NV Field Trials | Paul Schenker, et al. |
| 1999 | JPL Lew Allen Award for Excellence | Early Career | Adrian Stoica |
| 1999 | NASA Group Achievement Award | FIDO Silverlake, CA Field Trials | Paul Schenker, et al. |
| 1998 | NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal | Mars Pathfinder Development and Operations | Al Sirota |
| 1998 | NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal | RCW (Rover Control Workstation) software used on Mars Pathfinder | Brian Cooper |
| 1998 | NASA Software Of The Year Award, Sole Runner-Up | Web Interface for Telescience (WITS) | Paul Backes |
| 1998 | NASA/U.S. Dept. of Interior William T. Pecora Group Award | TOPEX/Poseidon Mission | Eddie Tunstel |
| 1997 | IEEE Fellow, Robotics and Automation Society | For significant original contributions to robotic manipulator control technology | Homayoun Seraji |
| 1997 | NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal | Rocky 7 Rover Development | Richard Volpe |
| 1997 | NASA Software Of The Year Award | DARTS: Dynamics Algorithms for Real-Time Simulation | Abhi Jain, et al. |
| 1997 | U.C. Irvine Lauds and Laurels Outstanding Alumnus | Lead Rover Driver for Mars Pathfinder | Brian Cooper |
| 1996 | NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal | Galileo troubleshooting | Greg Levanas |
| 1994 | Best Video Award, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation | Remote Surface Inspection Technology for the Space Station | Samad Hayati, J. Balaram, Homayoun Seraji, Richard Volpe, et al. |
| 1993 | NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal | Telerobotics | Paul Backes |
| 1992 | NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal | For significant original contributions to robotic manipulator control technology | Homayoun Seraji |
| 1991 | NASA Exceptional Service Medal | Galileo, HGA Recovery Effort | Greg Levanas |