The SRV members Joan Pep Company and Alberto Ortiz have been awarded the Best Paper of the Robotics section at CEA – Jornadas de Automática, Valencia 3-5 September 2014 (Automation Workshop of the Automation Spanish Council) for the paper:

Company, J. P.; Ortiz, A. «Diseño de una plataforma híbrida aéreo-terrestre para aplicaciones de inspección visual». Proceedings of the XXXV Jornadas de Automática, 2014.

This work describes the design and the dynamics model of an aero-terrestrial hybrid vehicle to be used for visual inspection tasks, such as e.g. inspection of large tonnage vessels (projects EU-FP7 MINOAS [2009-2012] and EU-FP7 INCASS [2013-2016]).

For more information, see http://www.uib.cat/noticies/Arxiu/Premi-per-a-un-robot-dinspeccio-de-grans-vaixells.cid360351 (in Catalan)