Awards

1. The Horizon 2020 Innovation Radar service has identified the “Vortex Robot for Aerospace Inspection and Repair” as a significant innovative result from the project Horizon Project Compinnova.
2. The Horizon 2020 Innovation Radar service has identified the “5G communication network for application in underground mining environment” as a significant innovative result from the project Horizon Project SIMS.
3. The Horizon 2020 Innovation Radar service has identified the “Semi-Autonomous Flying of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Inspection Activities in Mines” as a significant innovative result from the project Horizon Project SIMS.
4. Listed in the TOP 100 list for the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineers for 2020 and for the work “Aerial Autonomous Inspection of Ore Passes”
5. Selected in the Top 100 Innovators list in Sweden in 2020, for work on autonomous aerial inspection of underground environments.
6. IVA Mentor 2019
7. Awarded the “Innovator of the year for Luleå, Sweden in 2019”
8. Listed in the FOCUS top 100 Most Cited Researchers in the Field of Mathematics and Technologies 2019.
9. DISIRE Horizon 2020 has been selected in the list of World Alliance for the Top 1000 Solutions that will create an impact on earth.
10. Selected in the Top 100 Innovators list in Sweden in 2019, for work on autonomous aerial inspection of infrastructures
11. Our work on Autonomous Aerial Inspection of Wind Turbines has been selected to be featured in the top engineering achievements in 2017 from the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineers (IVA - https://www.iva.se/). The full announcement is located in the video below and we are featured at 56.05 min in the film.
12. Our article "Survey on Computer Vision for UAVs: Current Developments and Trends" has been listed as No.2 in the 10 Most Downloaded Articles of Springer in the area of Robotics and Control in 2017. Article Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10846-017-0483-z
13. Our article "Switching Model Predictive attitude control for a quadrotor helicopter subject to atmospheric disturbances" [J14] has been listed as No. 3 in the Most Cited Control Engineering Practice (CEP) articles from 2011. The full list of articles can be found at this link.
14. Journal [J14] ranked in the Top 25 Hottest Articles (Rank 14) in the Journal of Control Engineering Practice during January to March 2015.
15. Journal [J14] ranked in the Top 25 Hottest Articles (Rank 25) in the Journal of Control Engineering Practice during April to June 2015.
16. Journal [J14] ranked in the Top 25 Hottest Articles (Rank 14) in the Journal of Control Engineering Practice during July to September 2015.
17. In 2015 I have granted a FETopen Project in H200 entitled CompInnova in the robotic inspection of Aircrafts