Each year, an Awards Committee chaired by Professor Fulvia Quagliotti evaluates candidate papers to choose the best paper in terms of originality, novelty, technical soundness and presentation. An Awards Certificate is presented to the winners at the next conference.

Winners since 2014

The list of best papers since 2014 (in reverse chronological order):

2024

Ali Srour; Salvatore Marcellini; Tommaso Belvedere; Marco Cognetti; Antonio Franchi; Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Experimental Validation of Sensitivity-Aware Trajectory Planning for a Quadrotor UAV Under Parametric Uncertainty

2023

Rubio, Matthias; Naef, Joshua; Buehlmann, Franz; Brigger, Philippe; Huesser, Moritz; Inauen, Martin; Ospelt, Nicole; Gisler, Daniel; Tognon, Marco; Siegwart, Roland Y., Design of PrisMAV: An Omnidirectional Aerial Manipulator Based on a 3-PUU Parallel Mechanism

2022

J. A. Moreno, C. Ruiz, A. Satué, J. Á. Acosta, and A. Ollero, Design, Development and Testing of a Hybrid Fixed-Flapping Wing UAV 

2021 (two papers)

Sabrina Carroll, Michail Kalaitzakis, Nikolaos Vitzilaios: UAS Sensor Deployment and Retrieval to the Underside of Structures

Steffen Holter, Athanasios Tsoukalas, Nikolaos Evangeliou, Nikolaos Giakoumidis, Anthony Tzes: Relative Spherical-Visual Localization for Cooperative Unmanned Aerial Systems

2020

Not awarded due to CoVID-19 pandemic.

2019

Brady Anderson, Jaron Ellingson, Michael Eyler, David Buck, Cameron Peterson, Timothy W. McLain, Karl Warnick: Networked Radar Systems for Cooperative Tracking of UAVs

2018

Christoph Briese, Andreas Seel, Franz Andert: Vision-based Detection of Non-cooperative UAVs Using Frame Differencing and Temporal Filter

2017

Wenxin Chen, Zhenhai Duan, Yingfei Dong: False Data Injection on EKF-Based Navigation Control

2016

Zhuming Ai, Mark Livingston, I. S. Moskowitz: Real-Time Unmanned Aerial Vehicle 3D Environment Exploration in a Mixed Reality Environment

2015

Brandon Stark, Matthew McGee, YangQuan Chen: Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) Imaging Systems Using Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS)

2014

Satyanarayana Gupta Manyam, Sivakumar Rathinam, Swaroop Darbha, Phil Chandler, David Casbeer: Routing of Two Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Communication Constraints

Where to find the awarded papers

The awarded papers are available in the respective year’s conference proceedings.