On 9 September 2015 at Automatica.it in Bari Dr. Fabio Ruggiero has received the 2015 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Italian Chapter (I-RAS) Young Author Best Paper Award. This award is given every year to an Italian author or co-author under 35 y.o. of a recent paper published in one of the journals sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS).