Javier García Aguilar, research assistant at IIT, Sergio Díaz, second year sudent in the Industrial Engineering and Connected Industry Master's degrees, and Carlos Martín, former ICAI student, achieved the third position in the «Mathworks Minidrone Competition» this year. The competition consisted on two rounds, simulation and deployment. The second round was held the 4th of october at the IROS Conference 2018 in Madrid.

Javier García González and Quanyu Zhao have participated in the General Assembly with which the European project Best Paths is closed after four years, as well as the conference «Renewing the EU electricity grid: the Best Paths towards energy transition» that have took place in Brussels on 19 and 20 September 2018. The IIT team presented the conclusions of its replicability analysis to help assess the technical-economic impact of the most promising technologies to improve the capacity and flexibility of the transmission system transport. More information here.

Jaime Román, co-director of Observatory of the Electric Vehicle and Sustainable Mobility (OVEMS) said last October 5th in Informativos Telecinco that in the city every time you will see less vehicle owners. Information here .

Mario Castro, Professor of Comillas ICAI, has developed a mathematical methodology to determine if the differences in the expansion of a virus in one or another population is due to divergences between regions, populations or preventive measures, or simply are the result of chance. The study, which has been published on Frontiers in Microbiology, has been prepared by Castro and other researchers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. More information here.