Five students from ETH Zurich's Energy Science and Technology master's programme began work last week on a case study of the Swiss town of Sisslerfeld. The question of how the Sisslerfeld industrial zone and its neighbouring communities could become self-sufficient in terms of energy and CO2 neutrality by the year 2040 will occupy them for the next two semesters and will end in the summer of 2023.
Zurich, 27. January 2021. The new National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) "Dependable Ubiquitous Automation" has been launched - with the vision of strengthening Switzerland as one of the world's leading hubs for research, education and innovation in automation and control technology.
Anna Maddux is investigating algorithms that could solve the problem of how to steer agents in a control game without full information. For instance, how to encourage fairer access to ride hailing services.
As neural networks pervade our daily life, we need to make sure they can be relied on. Muhammad Zakwan is using tools from control theory to achieve that.
Do you need a break from research? Would you like to learn something new, gain a different perspective? Then you might want to consider doing an industry internships for a few months. Three of our NCCR Automation researchers have done this, and they all strongly recommend it.