Best Paper Award winners since 2014
2025
Jess Stephenson, William S. Stewart, and Melissa Greeff, A Time and Place to Land: Online Learning-Based Distributed MPC for Multirotor Landing on Surface Vessel in Waves
Best LATAM Paper: Gabriel Torre, Claudio Pose and Juan Giribet, Propeller Damage Detection: Adapting Models to Diverse UAV Sizes
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.