{"id":1054,"date":"2020-05-29T12:15:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T16:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2026_icuas\/?page_id=1054"},"modified":"2025-09-29T10:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:48:29","slug":"icuas-best-paper-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2026_icuas\/icuas-best-paper-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Paper Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Best Paper Award winners since 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2025<\/strong>
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<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best LATAM Paper: Gabriel Torre, Claudio Pose and Juan Giribet, Propeller Damage Detection: Adapting Models to Diverse UAV Sizes<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024<\/strong>
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<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023<\/strong>
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<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022<\/strong>
J. A. Moreno, C. Ruiz, A. Satu\u00e9, J. \u00c1. Acosta, and A. Ollero, Design, Development and Testing of a Hybrid Fixed-Flapping Wing UAV<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021<\/strong> (two papers)
Sabrina Carroll, Michail Kalaitzakis, Nikolaos Vitzilaios: UAS Sensor Deployment and Retrieval to the Underside of Structures<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steffen Holter, Athanasios Tsoukalas, Nikolaos Evangeliou, Nikolaos Giakoumidis, Anthony Tzes: Relative Spherical-Visual Localization for Cooperative Unmanned Aerial Systems<\/strong>
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2020<\/strong>
Not awarded due to CoVID-19 pandemic.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019<\/strong>
Brady Anderson, Jaron Ellingson, Michael Eyler, David Buck, Cameron Peterson, Timothy W. McLain, Karl Warnick: Networked Radar Systems for Cooperative Tracking of UAVs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018<\/strong>
Christoph Briese, Andreas Seel, Franz Andert: Vision-based Detection of Non-cooperative UAVs Using Frame Differencing and Temporal Filter<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017<\/strong>
Wenxin Chen, Zhenhai Duan, Yingfei Dong: False Data Injection on EKF-Based Navigation Control<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016<\/strong>
Zhuming Ai, Mark Livingston, I. S. Moskowitz: Real-Time Unmanned Aerial Vehicle 3D Environment Exploration in a Mixed Reality Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015<\/strong>
Brandon Stark, Matthew McGee, YangQuan Chen: Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) Imaging Systems Using Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014<\/strong>
Satyanarayana Gupta Manyam, Sivakumar Rathinam, Swaroop Darbha, Phil Chandler, David Casbeer: Routing of Two Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Communication Constraints<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Where to find the awarded papers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The awarded papers are available in the respective year’s conference proceedings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Best Paper Award winners since 2014 2025Jess 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 2024Ali Srour; Salvatore Marcellini; Tommaso Belvedere; Marco […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2026_icuas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2026_icuas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2026_icuas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2026_icuas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2026_icuas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2026_icuas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4224,"href":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2026_icuas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1054\/revisions\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uasconferences.com\/2026_icuas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}