From the 24th to the 26th of June, the SAS-Lab team landed in Porto, Portugal, to participate in the 11th International Airborne Wind Energy Conference -AWEC 2026!

We are proud to have been one of the most active groups at the event, with 10 contributions:

• Dr. Leonardo Cecchin: Identification and Hardware-In-The-Loop Testing of a Tail-Sitter UAV
• Dr. Filippo Trevisi: Concurrent Aerodynamic Design of the Wing and Turbines of AWE Systems
• Mattia Alborghetti: A Mid-Level Feedback Control Strategy for Crosswind Fly-gen AWES
• Matteo Bordignon: Control Co-Design for Takeoff and Landing of Tailsitter VTOL AWES
• Sofia Trombini: Experimental Validation of an Offshore Floating AWES Platform Using a HIL Framework
• Syed Hassan Ahmed Shah: Disturbance-Learning MPC for Wave-Induced Motion Rejection in Offshore AWES
• Andrea Bertozzi: Floating Airborne Wind Energy Farms with Shared Mooring Lines
• Andrea Bertozzi: A Perspective on Fully Autonomous Control of AWE Systems
• Alessandro Cappellari: Robust Autonomous Control of Onboard-Generation AWE Systems

The presented contributions can be found in the conference’s Book of Abstracts, edited by Fernando A.C.C. Fontes, Stefanie Thoms, and Roland Schmehl