Awards and Patents

Awards

James Dyson Award, Global Sustainability Winner, 2024 for airXeed Radiosonde
Research Quality Award, Temasek Labs @ SUTD, 2024
Best Conference Paper Finalist, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, 2024
Paper: Direct Aerial Visual Localization using Panoramic Synthetic Images and Domain Adaptation
Best Student Paper, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, 2023
Paper: Design and Control of a Ground-Aerial Dual Actuator Monocopter (G-ADAM)
Outstanding Dynamics and Control Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2022
Paper: Cooperative Modular Single Actuator Monocopters capable of Controlled Passive Separation
Design Practice Award: Best PhD Thesis Award, Singapore University of Technology and Design, 2020
Thesis: Design, Development and Control of Samara-inspired Autorotating Wings for Aerial Payload Deployment
Finalist, Best Paper Award, 2020, International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications
Paper: Design, modelling and control of collaborative Samara Autorotating Wings (SAW)
SGMark Good Design Award for “SAW: Samara Autorotating Wings”, 2019
SGMark Good Design Award for “CRoW: Compact Rotating Wing”, 2019
SGMark Good Design Award for “SWIRL: Surveyor With Intelligent Rotating Lens”, 2018
SUTD PhD President’s Graduate Fellowship, 2016
Laurel Award, Multi-Rotor Society, SUTD Achievement Awards Ceremony, 2015
Role: Club President
IDA Drone Competition Precision Landing Category, Second Runner-up, 2015
Autonomous Aerial Vehicle Competition, 4th Place, 2014
Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition, Category D, Second Runner-up, 2014
Singapore Amazing Flying Machine Competition, Category E, First Runner-up, 2014
ASEAN Undergraduate Scholarship, 2012
Gold Medal for Diploma in Mechatronics, 2011

Patents

S. Foong, S.K.H. Win, C.H. Tan, D. Sufiyan, L.S.T. Win, H.B. Lim, S.K. Yeung, “Aerial Vehicles, methods of imaging a tunnel and methods of imaging a shaft,” 2021
US 2021/0129987 A1
L.S.T. Win, S.K.H. Win, S. Foong, “Mono-wing aerial device and method of forming the mono-wing aerial device,” 2023
US 2023/0312142 A1
S.K.H. Win, L.S.T. Win, S. Foong, G.S. Soh, “Autorotating aerial device, method of forming the autorotating aerial device and an autorotating aerial system,” 2023
US 2023/0348075 A1
Y.H. Pheh, S.K.H. Win, S. Foong, “Unmanned aerial vehicle, propulsion unit for an unmanned aerial vehicle, and controlling system for an unmanned aerial vehicle”, 2024
US 2024/0239529 A1