04 Luglio 2023
Congratulations to Varsha Behrunani for winning best poster award at the DTU PES summer school: Advances in OR and AI
29 Giugno 2023
Preparations for this year's RoboCup, which will take place in Bordeaux, France, are in full swing. This international robot soccer tournament brings together student teams from different countries to compete in 7-on-7 matches. In addition to the competition, RoboCup also serves as a robotics conference.
20 Giugno 2023
Many congratulations to Baiwei Guo for winning Best PhD Paper Award at ECC23.
08 Giugno 2023
Even as the possibilities of Internet of Things applications multiply, growth is being held back by energy challenges. One strategy is energy harvesting, but that comes with fundamental limitations. Naomi Stricker is working on solutions.
09 Maggio 2023
We hosted 100 people at ETH's conference centre in Monte Verita, Ticino, and what a week we had!
24 Aprile 2023
At a time when countries around the world are threatened with energy shortages, ETH Zurich and NCCR Automation researchers have developed a high-impact, low-cost software solution to improve resilience and efficiency. This innovative approach enables providers to make the most of decentralized energy resources such as photovoltaic systems through flexible, responsive, and data-driven operation.
27 Marzo 2023
While neural networks often achieve impressive performance, they sometimes fail to capture simple concepts that humans understand intuitively – a gap that may even put lives at risk. But can we transfer our human knowledge to neural networks to help them learn more meaningful solutions? NCCR Automation researcher Loris Di Natale has a plan to make sure automated machines don’t freeze us out.
23 Marzo 2023
Julie Rousseau is a PhD student at ETH Zurich and Empa looking at stabilising the energy grid.
23 Marzo 2023
Anna Scampicchio is a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich who does theoretical research on why some systems behave the way they do.
22 Marzo 2023
Rahel Rickenbach is a PhD student at the Institute of Dynamic Systems and Control, at ETH Zurich.
21 Marzo 2023
Jelena Trisovic is a Ph.D. student at the ETH AI Center, she obtained an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from ETH Zürich and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computing from the University of Belgrade.
17 Marzo 2023
Alisa Rupenyan is a senior scientist at the Automatic Control Lab at ETH Zurich and Head of the Advanced Control and IoT group at Inspire, the technology transfer organization at ETH Zurich. She leads research projects in the intersection between process optimization, industrial control, and machine learning for applications strongly connected to manufacturing.
16 Marzo 2023
Clara Galimberti is a PhD student at EPFL. She received her degree in Electronic Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR), Argentina, in 2018. Her research lies at the intersection of machine learning and control theory.
13 Marzo 2023
Maryam Kamgarpour leads the Sycamore lab at EPFL. Her theoretical research is motivated by control challenges arising in intelligent transportation networks, robotics, power grid systems and healthcare.
15 Febbraio 2023
We are thrilled to announce that after a highly competitive round of financing calls for industry-academia projects, NCCR Automation has invested CHF 2.1 million in research into ten new, collaborative research projects. Projects will be hosted within an NCCR Automation lab and will continue with this funding for approximately two years, before being spun out in other formats.
10 Febbraio 2023
Congratulations to NCCR Automation PI Silvia Mastellone who has been elected the board of governors of the IEEE Control System Society.
25 Gennaio 2023
Loris Di Natale and Muhammad Zakwan are the perfect example of the interdisciplinarity fostered within NCCR Automation. They met during a project meeting and, after many months of exchange dedicated two full weeks of their time to drive their idea forward and to publish a paper. Several extensions of the initial idea are in the works so stay tuned for updates!
16 Gennaio 2023
This time Alberto Padoan chats with Anuradha Annaswamy (MIT) about Adaptive Control and its exciting history, starting from the Brave Era to the audacious X15 tests and to modern intersections with RL.
13 Gennaio 2023
Congratulations to NCCR PI Vasco Medici and his team for winning the Watt d'Or 2023 for their three year project that successfully demonstrated that an intelligently networked and controlled combination of electricity consumers and solar power producers can significantly increase self-sufficiency.
23 Dicembre 2022
The NCCR members Luca Furieri and Maryam Kamgarpour have won the 2022 Best Paper Award in the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems for the paper "Sparsity Invariance for Convex Design of Distributed Controllers" by Luca Furieri, Yang Zheng, Antonis Papachristodoulou and Maryam Kamgarpour.
13 Dicembre 2022
Congratulations to our PI Srdjan Capkun who has just been named IEEE Fellow for his contributions to wireless and systems security
02 Dicembre 2022
In today's episode of the InControl podcast host Alberto Padoan talks to Jean-Jacques Slotine (Director of the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory at MIT and Distinguished Faculty at Google AI) about his inspiring journey through nonlinear and adaptive control, complex networks, optimization and machine learning
24 Novembre 2022
NCCR Automation provides junior researchers with the means for funding activities related to research or NCCR structure-related activities (Communication, Education, Equal Opportunity and KTT).
23 Novembre 2022
Congratulations to NCCR members Kaveh Razavi, Michele Marazzi and Melanie Zeilinger who, along with their teams, have been presented with "Golden Owl" awards for innovative teaching by the student association of ETH Zurich.
18 Novembre 2022
NCCR Automation is opening its first call for research projects in collaboration with industry partners.
07 Novembre 2022
Congratulations to PhD student Bahar Taskesen who has won the informs Optimization Society Student Paper Prize for her paper "Semi-Discrete Optimal Transport: Hardness, Regularization, and Numerical Solution".
13 Ottobre 2022
Researchers of the NCCR Automation work together with partners from industry to contribute to a successful transition to a sustainable energy system.
05 Ottobre 2022
Researchers of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Automation, ETH Zurich and Empa have developed novel control strategies for heating systems in buildings. In tests under real life settings, they managed to reduce energy use for heating by up to 49 percent.
28 Settembre 2022
We are happy to welcome three new PIs to NCCR Automation.
01 Settembre 2022
Last year, researchers discovered vulnerabilities in commonly used memory devices that potentially put users of any kind of computer at risk. So far, the efforts of vendors to implement security mechanisms inside the chips have been unsuccessful. Scientists of ETH Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Automation have now developed a mechanism by which the security risks are mitigated.
22 Agosto 2022
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06 Agosto 2022
In this episode, our guest is Alessandro Chiuso. Alessandro is a Professor in the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padova. The episode covers several topics, including Alessandro’s research trajectory, his work in system identification and vision, and his passion for skiing.
14 Luglio 2022
ETH Zurich and NCCR Automation researchers have discovered a serious security vulnerability in computer hardware. The vulnerability, called "Retbleed," affects microprocessors from market leaders Intel and AMD. All commercially available operating systems worldwide that use these processors are affected. When computers execute special calculation steps to compute faster, they leave traces that hackers could abuse.
06 Luglio 2022
For years, there has been an imbalance at Swiss universities: students are comparatively less interested in mathematics, computer science, technical disciplines and natural sciences than in the humanities and social sciences. Various efforts have been made to counteract this development. The members of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Automation also contribute to this. For example, by visiting schools to introduce their research topics to pupils and to awaken their fascination for them.
30 Giugno 2022
At the end of June, the members and associates of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Automation met in Caux for their annual retreat. High above Lac Léman, participants from all seven institutions used the time to plan the future of the NCCR, develop educational programmes and to catch up with each other after last year's virtual event.
17 Giugno 2022
Research in automated control and machine learning done at the NCCR Automation helps to prepare industrial manufacturing for the future. Thus, manufacturing not only becomes more efficient and adaptable, but will also waste less material and require less energy, making the process more sustainable.
10 Giugno 2022
A group of 20 Bachelor students from the Chen-Ning Yang Scholars Programme based at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore travelled to Zurich to familiarize themselves with the research of NCCR Automation and to closely experience its experimental facilities at ETH Zurich.
10 Giugno 2022
Swissnex is the Swiss global network connecting Switzerland and the world in education, research and innovation. In May, a team of delegates from various worldwide locations visited the NCCR Automation at ETH Zurich to learn about its research areas and goals.
10 Giugno 2022
Prof. Kaveh Razavi, head of the Computer Security group and Principal Investigator at the NCCR Automation, wants to increase the security of computer hardware and microprocessors with a new approach. To this end, he has subsequently received an ERC Starting Grant. Due to Switzerland's exclusion from funding by the European Research Council ERC, the project is now being funded by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI.