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.