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Congratulations to Sophie, who presented the paper "Stability Certificates for Receding Horizon Games"

The new hub for Computation, Learning, Optimization & Control. Taking place in Engelberg, Switzerland from 2-5th September 2025, the event offers inspiring plenary talks from world-class researchers, interactive poster sessions with a best poster award, engaging workshops, panel discussions and networking opportunities.

In addition to the 14 new people we welcomed in February, we have five new people joining us in March

In this episode Manfred Morari traces his journey from chemical process control to IMC, robust and predictive control, MPC, and lessons from a career spanning ETH Zürich, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Caltech and University of Pennsylvania. From theory to real-world impact, this episode is a must-listen for any control enthusiast!

We are happy to welcome the first of our fellowship winners from 2024's call. Our fellows will be arriving throughout the spring and staying with us for a period of up to six months.

Researcher Sophie Hall recently spoke to Richard Delevan on the Wicked Problems podcast about the need to democratise the algorithms in our lives. Give it a listen in the link below.

New episode! 🎙️ Today, we dive into Richard Bellman’s legacy as the father of dynamic programming. 🧠 From his early life in Brooklyn to Princeton, Los Alamos, RAND, and Stanford, we explore his monumental contributions to control theory, which set the stage for modern AI breakthroughs!

Congratulations to Ezzat Elokda who has been presented with the Young Author Award at the 5th IFAC Workshop on Cyber-Physical and Human Systems (CPHS) for his paper "To Travel Quickly or to Park Conveniently: Coupled Resource Allocations with Multi-Karma Economies"

Congratulations to Mahrokh Ghoddousi Boroujeni who has received the Outstanding Student Paper Award at IEEE CDC 2024 for her paper titled "A PAC-Bayesian Framework for Optimal Control with Stability Guarantees."

Il workshop sull'imprenditorialità Bench2Biz di quest'anno è solo uno dei canali a cui si sta attingendo per sostenere un promettente progetto di gestione dell'energia. I fondatori sono determinati a entrare nel mondo degli affari ben preparati.

In un mondo basato su infrastrutture condivise, come possiamo proteggere i più vulnerabili? Sophie Hall spiega perché è impegnata a trovare gli strumenti teorici per costruire sistemi che non lascino nessuno al freddo.

In un post precedente, Jared Miller e Niklas Schmid hanno analizzato il significato di sicurezza in ingegneria. Ma come i diversi sistemi di automazione implementano queste specifiche?

Timothy Asare and Goodnews Iduku, who will be among the first students to graduate from the joint Ashesi-ETH Master's in Mechatronic Engineering, visited us for two weeks earlier this autumn. Together, they are setting up an optimisation framework for a renewable energy grid at the Ashesi University campus, supervised by Varsha Behrunani and John Lygeros.

La sicurezza è un criterio cruciale nell'automazione, ma come possiamo definirla? Come possiamo verificare se siamo sicuri? I membri dell'NCCR Jared Miller e Niklas Schmid investigano questa questione più attentamente.

Mark your calendars! 🗓️ 2-5 September 2025 – Engelberg, Switzerland
Join us at the Swiss CLOCK Summit, a new event bringing together the top minds in Computation, Learning, Optimization, and Control.

Congratulations to NCCR Automation alumnus Gioele Zardini who has been awarded the ETH Doctoral Dissertation Award

Congratulations to NCCR Automation PI Daniel Kuhn for winning the INFORMS Optimization Society 2024 Farkas Prize

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.

We are happy to announce that seven new industry collaboration projects will start in Phase II, leading to shared work that will bring our research into society. You can read details of the funded projects below.

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!

Congratulations to new PhD student Fabian Böhm who was awarded the EHG-Prize by "Energie- und Hochspannungstechnische Gesellschaft an der RWTH Aachen e.V. " for his Master's thesis "Laboratory Implementation of Curative Flexibility Deployments in Distribution Grids Using Online Feedback Optimization".

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.

Congratulations to Fabian Flürenbrock who won the award for his paper Model-Based Estimation of Ventricular Cerebrospinal Fluid Volume, authored by Fabian Flürenbrock, Simon Muntwiler, Leonie Korn, Marianne Schmid Daners, Melanie N. Zeilinger.

You've probably heard of reinforcement learning (or RL for short) if you've spent any time reading about technology or control theory, but what does it really mean? Let us explain.

La tecnologia dei "gemelli digitali" non è solo per l'industria. Inserire in un'app dettagli come le condizioni del suolo e il meteo potrebbe presto aiutare gli agricoltori a ottenere consigli su misura per la gestione delle colture, riducendo le emissioni e aumentando la resa.

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!

Abbiamo parlato di fake news, selfish routing e del rapporto reciproco tra informatica e altri campi con l’esperta di teoria dei giochi in visita al politecnico di Zurigo.

Lo studio di problemi matematici fondamentali può portare a risultati che offrono importanti vantaggi nel mondo reale, oltre a contribuire all'avanzamento della ricerca e ad aiutare gli altri ingegneri e ingegnere. Il lavoro del dottor Mengshuo Jia sulla linearità e il toolkit che ne è derivato ne sono un ottimo esempio.

Host Alberto Padoan meets Francesco Bullo (UC Santa Barbara) to explore his research journey, from early work in geometric control and robotics to robotic networks, cyber-physical systems, mathematical sociology, all the way to contraction theory and neural networks!