FRPG's Bachelor student Simon Grimm won our faculty's exceptional Bachelor Thesis Award for year 2024-25 at the University of Stuttgart.

Simon's work was on "Machine Optimized Parametric Design, Development and Flight Evaluation of a Stable Flying Wing UAV Glider". In only four months of work, he was able to go from project conceptualization to real UAV development and testing in the field. Simon's work also expands our WildCap's fleet to a new vehicle type with significantly increased endurance. 

Our paper “A Multi-Simulation Approach with Model Predictive Control for Anafi Drones” [1] was selected as one of the Top 3 Finalists for the Best Paper Award at the European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR 2025)

[1] A Multi-Simulation Approach with Model Predictive Control for Anafi Drones, Pascal Goldschmid and Aamir Ahmad, IEEE European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2025), September 2025.
(Preprint Available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10218).

First place in the video category of the 9th Annual #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge (Judging Panel Award) for our video https://youtu.be/poV5-4lZmF0, organized by the WILDLABS Community. The challenge aims to recognize how technology is being used and is changing wildlife conservation work. Picture Credits: Ollie Wearn

KI-Champions Baden-Württemberg 2024 Award from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labor and Tourism (Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Tourismus) for our project WildCap. Presented by Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, Minister of Economic Affairs, Labor and Tourism. (Picture Credit:  Kristijan Matic)

Best Paper Award: Our paper "Airship Formations for Animal Motion Capture and Behaviour Analysis" won the best paper award (for day 2 talks) in the 2nd International Conference on Design and Engineering of Lighter-Than-Air systems (DELTAs 2024) held at IIT Bombay, India in June 2024. (Picture: My PhD student and Co-author, Eric Price, receiving the award, Photo Credit: DELTAs2024)

Faculty Publication Prize 2023 for our IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) paper "Viewpoint-Driven Formation Control of Airships for Cooperative Target Tracking". The prize is given every year to the best paper from every faculty (department) at the University of Stuttgart. (Picture: My PhD student and Co-author, Eric Price, receiving the award, Photo Credit: Pascal Goldschmid)