Awards

DARS 2026 presented Paper Awards for outstanding papers and a Student Travel Award to support student participation.

Best Paper Award

Safe and Energy-Aware Decentralized PDE-Constrained Optimization-Based Control of Multi-UAVs for Persistent Wildfire Suppression Longchen Niu and Gennaro Notomista

Paper Award Nominees

The following papers have been selected as nominees for the DARS 2026 Paper Awards.

Nominees

MACH3: Multi-Agent Cooperative Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning via a Three-Layer Architecture Alessandro Bonetti, Xin Zhou, Yifeng Zhang, Silvia Proia, Tanishq Duhan, Tingguang Zhou, Lorenzo Sabattini and Guillaume Sartoretti
Heterogeneous Sensor-Based Multi-Robot Exploration for Radiation Source Localization in Unknown Environments Akinori Watanabe, Yusuke Tamura and Yasuhisa Hirata
Experimental Evaluation of Decentralized Hemispherical Coverage for Multi-UAV Systems Mehdi Belal, Tiziano Manoni, Dario Albani and Lorenzo Sabattini
Safe and Energy-Aware Decentralized PDE-Constrained Optimization-Based Control of Multi-UAVs for Persistent Wildfire Suppression Longchen Niu and Gennaro Notomista — Best Paper Award
Probabilistic Multi-Robot Gas Source Localization with Uncalibrated Sensors: A Distributed Estimation Approach Wanting Jin, Marc Zoel Arias Mitjà and Alcherio Martinoli

Selection process: The final Paper Award recipients were determined by the Award Committee based on both the submitted papers and the presentations delivered in S5: Award Nominees.

Student Travel Award

The following students have been selected as recipients of the DARS 2026 Student Travel Award.

Award Recipients

Brendan Dijkstra University of Groningen, Netherlands
Marta Gabbi University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Wanting Jin EPFL, Switzerland
Edwin Meriaux CentraleSupélec / McGill University, France
Mason (Longchen) Niu University of Waterloo, Canada
Jose Alberto Rodriguez University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, United States
Riana Annie Gagnon Souleiman Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Alkesh Kumar Srivastava Temple University, United States

Student Travel Award recipients will receive partial reimbursement of their conference registration fee.