AWARDS & GRANTS.
Grants, prizes, and distinctions received by the lab and its members.
- 2023
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.











