08-03-2022
In collaboration with the Swiss Association of Women Engineers (SVIN) and NCCR Digital Fabrication (DFAB), the NCCR Automation organised an interactive webinar on The Power of Networking to provide insights and tools for establishing a network effectively.
03-03-2022
In his research on uncertain optimisation problems, Daniel Kuhn takes the role of a kind of ropedancer. In this way, he is contributing to the dependable automated future that the NCCR Automation is striving for. In this interview, the recent winner of the Humbolt Foundation award provides insights into his work.
24-02-2022
A team of researchers of the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Automation investigated how social media influencers arise and communities form around them. Their results may lead to measures that mitigate the polarization that occurs on these platforms.
11-02-2022
Kaveh Razavi is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich and recently joined the NCCR Automation. With his research, he aims to improve the security of hardware components used in future infrastructure such as CPU or DRAM devices.
24-12-2021
23-12-2021
As part of the Bench2Biz workshops, a team led by Carlo Cenedese explored his research results for commercialization potential. There, Carlo gained insights from various different viewpoints and benefitted from honest feedback within a safe environment from which he could potentially launch his entrepreneurial career.
17-12-2021
In Girls In Control workshops, Swiss elementary school students have the chance to connect mathematics to the real world – and be inspired to be the next generation of women to join the field of Automation.
17-12-2021
The first Junior Retreat was organised in October 2021 in the Congress Hotel Seepark in Thun. It was the occasion for most of our PhD students and Postdocs to meet physically for the first time. This was a successful event organised by their peers. All researchers are looking forward next year!
26-11-2021
In the last week of November, the first Site Visit of the NCCR Automation by the SNSF and the external Review Panel took place. Overall it was a very successful and fruitful event, resulting in plenty of food for thought for us.
17-11-2021
Researchers at ETH Zurich have discovered major vulnerabilities in DRAM memory devices, which are widely used in computers, tablets and smartphones. The vulnerabilities have now been published together with the National Cyber Security Centre, which for the first time has assigned an identification number for it.
15-10-2021
Traditional control schemes rely on mathematical knowledge of the system they control. Yet this knowledge is not always available – for example, when the system is very complex. Researchers of the EPFL and the NCCR Automation have developed a novel scheme that effectively controls systems based on measured data alone – even when the data is inaccurate.
14-10-2021
Researchers of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Automation, led by Alessandro Zanardi of ETH Zurich, have investigated how autonomous vehicles could become better road users in an urban environment. The result is both surprisingly simple and complex at the same time.
14-10-2021
Naomi Stricker is in the third year of her PhD at the Computer Engineering Group at ETH Zurich, in which she focuses on making energy harvesting systems more robust and able to communicate and collaborate. Her research could help do anything from heating buildings more efficiently to monitoring air quality.
14-10-2021
Mahsa Rahimi-Siegrist is a doctoral student and research assistant at the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems at ETH Zurich and a member of the NCCR Automation. She is interested in the behavior of public transport passengers and works on improving information strategies to increase the quality of transport services.
14-10-2021
Swiss electricity generation has a very low carbon footprint. However, this is often not the case for imports. Researchers from the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Automation, led by Loris di Natale from EMPA, investigated how electric cars could help reduce the need for energy imports from fossil fuels.
29-09-2021
NCCR Automation took part in its first Hackathon, the 2021 Energy Data Hackdays, where we proposed a challenge, gained experience with the open innovation culture and inspiration for our moon-shoot project.
28-09-2021
13-09-2021
NCCR Automation Seminar Series is a weekly seminar covering broad topics of interests for the NCCR Automation.
07-07-2021
Congratulations to our PI and Executive Committee member Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate who founded the Control Systems Society Chapter of the IEEE Swiss Section. He is now the chair of this chapter.
10-06-2021
Pengbo Zhu is a first year PhD researcher who joined the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Automation last October. With the help of intelligent systems, she works on improving the spatial distribution of shared vehicles. In doing so, Zhu hopes to positively impact quality of life in cities around the world.
01-06-2021
Mahrokh Ghoddousiboroujeni is a first year PhD researcher, who joined the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Automation last November. The algorithms she works on could one day help to keep an increasingly renewable electrical grid in balance.
17-05-2021
NCCR Automation is opening its network to new members to address the social science dimension of automation and to strengthen its research on embedded systems, cyber-security and data science.
12-04-2021
As part of the #NCCRWomen campaign, five of the NCCR Automation Women introduced their research to show young people of high school or undergraduate age who they are, what they do and why they do it.
12-01-2021
The NCCR Automation is a large-scale research network funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. John Lygeros, director of the program, explains why such an effort is needed and what the more than 40 researchers are working on.
12-01-2021
The website of the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) "Dependable ubiquitous automation" is online.