Awards

Year	Award	Event details
2024	Best paper award	IMAV 2024 with the paper: "“Flying a quadrotor with unknown actuators and sensor configuration"
2024	Winner outdoor competition 'multimodal' category	IMAV 2024
2019	Winner	AlphaPilot AI drone race challenge
2019	Special achievement paper award	IMAV 2019 with the paper: "Hear-and-avoid for UAVs using convolutional neural networks"
2018	1st place outdoor competition	IMAV 2018, joint team with ENAC
2018	Most Innovative Design	IMAV 2018, for the use of the Delfly Nimble with on-board vision
2018	Innovation Oscar	Drones in Water Management (Pelican drone project)
2017	System Design award	IMAV 2017 for the use of UWB formation flight and cooperative carrying
2017	3rd place indoor competition	IMAV 2017
2017	Best paper award	IMAV 2017 with the paper: "Quad-thopter: tailless flapping wing robot with 4 pairs of wings"
2016	2nd place	IROS Drone race
2016	3rd place indoor competition	IMAV 2016
2016	Best paper award	IMAV 2016 for the paper "Control of a hybrid helicopter with wings"
2016	2nd place	Outback Medical Express UAV Challenge
2016	Airmanship award	Outback Medical Express UAV Challenge
2015	Special Achievement	IMAV 2015 for the feed=forward control of Nano Quad CX-10
2015	3rd place in indoor competition	IMAV 2015
2013	1st place in outdoor competition	IMAV 2013
2013	1st place in indoor competition	IMAV 2013
2013	3rd place in indoor autonomy award	IMAV 2013
2010	1st place in the category "Indoor Flight Dynamics - Flapping Wing MAVs"	IMAV 2010
2009	Nationale Luchtvaart Prijs	Microvliegtuig Delfly
2008	Smallest camera equipped Airplane	Guinness World Record for the world's "smallest camera plane", the Delfly Micro
2008	Special Prize	EMAV 2008 for "Indoor Flight Dynamics - Best automatic MAV"
2008	3rd place outdoor autonomy competition	EMAV 2008
2007	Best demo	Inspire Prize
2005	ID-NL Jaarprijs 2015	Holland Innovation Prize