Recognition

AWARDS & GRANTS.

Grants, prizes, and distinctions received by the lab and its members.

  1. 2023

    ERC Starting Grant

    European Research Council

    Awarded to Héctor García de Marina

    ERC Starting Grant
  2. 2021

    Best conference paper award finalist

    IEEE ICRA 2021

    Awarded to Weijia Yao Héctor García de Marina

    Distributed coordinated path following using guiding vector fields.

    Best conference paper award finalist
  3. 2020

    Ramón y Cajal fellowship

    Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Gobierno de España

    Awarded to Héctor García de Marina

    Five years of independent research funding, and arguably the most prestigious Spanish grant for young investigators. Taken up at the University of Granada in April 2022.

    Ramón y Cajal fellowship
  4. 2020

    Research fellow - Atracción de Talento

    Comunidad de Madrid

    Awarded to Héctor García de Marina

    2nd position in the Engineering field, a competitive personal research funding for 2020/24.

    Research fellow - Atracción de Talento
    Research fellow - Atracción de Talento
  5. 2019

    Seal of Excellence

    European Commission

    Awarded to Héctor García de Marina

    The H2020-MSCA-IF-2019 proposal was recognised as a high-quality project proposal.

    Seal of Excellence
  6. 2018

    Best paper award finalist

    ICARCV 2018

    Awarded to Héctor García de Marina

    Multi-robot motion-formation distributed control with sensor self-calibration: experimental validation.

    Best paper award finalist
    Best paper award finalist
  7. 2017

    1st position, international drone competition

    IMAV 2017

    Awarded to Héctor García de Marina

    Category: drone parade. Circular formation control of fixed-wing UAVs with constant speeds.

    1st position, international drone competition
    1st position, international drone competition
  8. 2016

    Shortlisted for the best thesis award

    Dutch Institute for Systems and Control

    Awarded to Héctor García de Marina

    Distributed formation control for autonomous robots.

    Shortlisted for the best thesis award
    Shortlisted for the best thesis award