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What do Alpiq, GWF, Hamilton Medical, VAT, and Zurich Insurance have in common? A deep interest in control and optimisation! We were happy to host them at the third iteration of our Workshop on Control and Computational Methods together with researchers from ETH, EPFL, Empa, ZHAW, FHNW, OST, and Inspire AG.

This time host Alberto Padoan is talking to Miroslav Krstić (UC San Diego) about nonlinear adaptive control, PDEs, delays, extremum seeking, safety and neural operators for control.

In un corso di Master all'ETH, gli studenti imparano a gestire il processo decisionale dei robot - e il loro lavoro viene anche valutato dai robot. I compiti sono disponibili su GitHub e possono essere provati da chiunque.

Munther Dahleh (MIT) takes us from L1 control theory to agile robotic manoeuvres, abstractions, cascaded failures in networks, markets, and the role of data and systems thinking in solving societal problems. Don’t miss out!

What are real challenges in control and automation that industry faces? What are advances in research that could help address them?

This year’s EnergyDataHackdays took place on 16-17th September in Brugg. The event is designed to bring together people to work on some of the biggest challenges to the energy sector, and see how automation can play a part.

Through the lens of linear algebra, Bart De Moor guides us through the foundations of system identification to SVD applications, SVMs, quantum information, tensor algebra, and time series geometry —all the way to the very roots of system modelling!

Sapete come si dice: se una cosa sembra troppo bella per essere vera... Tranne forse nel caso della borsa di studio NCCR Automation. Non fidatevi della nostra parola!

Per aumentare l'innovazione, dobbiamo avvicinare la ricerca alle esigenze industriali del mondo reale. Un nuovo libro dai ricercatori di NCCR Automation analizza come si può ottenere questo risultato e dove si registrano i progressi più interessanti in questo momento.

Abbiamo utilizzato modellini di auto e robot alieni per far provare l'emozione di lavorare con la robotica a bambini e ragazzi provenienti da contesti diversi.

Last week NCCR Automation members Saverio Bolognani and Nicolas Lanzetti went to the Kantonsschule Zürcher Unterland in Bülach with the SATW TechDays.