sustainable automation

Florian Dörfler has been awarded this year’s Rössler Prize in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the fields of energy and control engineering. The award, worth CHF 200,000, is the most generous research prize at ETH Zurich and was presented to him at the ETH Foundation’s annual thanksgiving event.

Maitraya Desai is a doctoral student in the Power Systems Laboratory, researching at the intersection of power systems, power electronics and control. In this interview, he explains a novel control approach for grid-forming converters that could enhance the stability of future power grids, especially with high penetration of renewable energy sources.

How do you boil down years of work to a three minute talk? Watch Pengbo Zhu summarise her thesis in 180 seconds and see how she is hoping to make your taxi rides better.

To scale up innovation, we need to bring research closer to real-world industrial needs. A new book by NCCR Automation researchers looks into how that can be achieved, and where the most exciting progress is right now.

NCCR Automation researchers from the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich and the electricity supplier AEW Energie AG have won the 2024 Watt d’Or award in the Energy Technologies category. Their algorithm, which was implemented at AEW Energie, makes it possible to optimise electricity grid operations.