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Il 22 maggio, NCCR Automation ha ospitato il suo primo Workshop tra l’Industria & l’Accademia sui metodi di controllo e di calcolo, con l’obiettivo di creare una connessione fra la ricerca e l'industria.

Tutti hanno sentito parlare del cosiddetto "Algoritmo di Google" e di altri algoritmi dei social media utilizzati per trovare i contenuti più interessanti per ogni persona. Ma cosa significa in realtà? Come funziona e cosa succede all'interno del suo computer?

Cosa significa stabilità nella teoria del controllo e cosa c'entrano le forme? Prendete una penna, un rotolo di carta igienica vuoto e un paio di forbici: Wouter Jongeneel ha qualcosa da insegnarvi.

Congratulations to NCCR Automation PI Maryam Kamgarpour, who has been named winner of the European Control Award for 2024 by the European Control Association.

Il primo evento per i soci di Reallabor Sisslerfeld si è svolto di recente e ha riunito oltre 50 soggetti interessati provenienti dall'industria, dalla scienza, dalle organizzazioni regionali e sovraregionali e dai rappresentanti politici dei comuni e del Cantone di Argovia. Il workshop mirava a formulare obiettivi di collaborazione e innovazione nel campo dello sviluppo urbano sostenibile e a scambiare le prime idee concrete.

Experiments by ETH Zurich and NCCR Automation computer security researchers showed that smartphones can be manipulated to allow the owner to ride Swiss trains for free. The researchers also highlighted ways of curbing such misuse.

Congratulations to NCCR Automation PI Kaveh Razavi for receiving the Jochen Lietke Young Researcher Award.

Abbiamo utilizzato modellini di auto e robot alieni per far provare l'emozione di lavorare con la robotica a bambini e ragazzi provenienti da contesti diversi.

In this call, the NCCR Automation is looking to fund industry collaboration and technology transfer projects that have a very concrete impact on Swiss industry and society.

Questa pubblicazione è frutto della collaborazione tra l’accademia svizzera delle scienze ingegneristiche (SATW) ed il Polo di Ricerca Nazionale automazione (NCCR Automation). Il suo obiettivo è quello di fornire alle aziende di approvvigionamento energetico, alle imprese di piccola e media dimensione, alle aziende fornitrici di energia e ai responsabili delle decisioni in Svizzera una panoramica dei prossimi cambiamenti nel sistema energetico. La pubblicazione intende inoltre evidenziare le opportunità che ne derivano, le tecnologie innovative, le possibili soluzioni e le nuove aree di business per garantire un approvvigionamento energetico affidabile e redditizio entro il 2050.

Today we embark on a voyage through EDA history with the legendary Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli! 🚀 From classical studies to revolutionizing electronic design, we cover SPICE, the iconic Intel x386, and the genesis of multibillion-dollar Cadence and Synopsis!

Una grande idea non basta: gli accademici con obiettivi imprenditoriali spesso si sentono smarriti quando cercano di trasformare le loro idee in prodotti. I workshop bench2biz esistono per mostrarvi la strada del successo.

I problemi più quotidiani sono a volte i più resistenti alle soluzioni efficienti. Il controllo dell'inventario in dual sourcing ne è un esempio: è più difficile di quanto si possa pensare bilanciare la rapidità di consegna con i costi. Ma il Machine learning può aiutare.

La modellazione per deposizione fusa è una tecnologia davvero trasformativa, ma i risultati inaffidabili e imprecisi significano che c'è ancora un enorme divario tra il suo potenziale e ciò che effettivamente produce. Xavier Guidetti sta usando il feedback e l'ottimizzazione per colmare questo divario.

Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Part II: Unveiling the Dynamics of Collective Decision-Making from Flocking Starlings to Desert Ants, Political Polarization, and the Creative Dance Between Arts and Control Theory.

If you've heard about game theory but don't really know what it is or what it means, this game by Nicky Case is a great starting point. (please note that Nicky Case is not associated with NCCR Automation - we just think this is a great resource).

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.

This time host Alberto Padoan talks to Naomi Leonard (Princeton University) about how bees choose their next nest site, how starlings maintain formations to escape predators, and the curious connection between dancing and control theory. 🐝 🐥 💃 🕺

New episode alert!🎙️Part II of our fascinating journey with Tryphon Georgiou is live! 🚀 This episode takes you beyond robustness and feedback systems, exploring the dazzling realms of quantum mechanics, turbulence, optimal transport, and elusive “aha moments”! 🌐✨

Last week NCCR Automation members Saverio Bolognani and Nicolas Lanzetti went to the Kantonsschule Zürcher Unterland in Bülach with the SATW TechDays.

This serious condition affects sufferers from babies to the elderly, and yet the treatment hasn’t changed in 70 years. We’re working on that.

Keep up to date with the NomadZ robotic football team here, where team member Nicole Damblon tells us how their 2023 has gone.

Congratulations to two NCCR Automation researchers who have won SNSF Swiss National Science Foundation grants this week. Niao He who won a starting grant for her project “Optimization for Modern Reinforcement Learning: from Principles to Scalability” and Mengshuo Jia who won for a project on rethinking power system computation from a fundamental and non-traditional perspective.

As a journal editor and award-winning researcher, Francis Bach has his finger on the pulse of AI. He talked to us about exciting new findings, how to spread ideas, and why convexity isn’t always the right goal.

New episode of the inControl podcast! At our recent NCCR Symposium host Alberto Padoan grabbed Tryphon Georgiou (UC Irvine) for a two part chat on modeling, robustness and fundamental limitations of feedback systems. This episode covers marathons, interpolation problems, metrics and the interplay between feedback and causality.

Congratulations to Wouter Jongeneel who has won the 2023 INFORMS Optimization Society Award for his paper "Small Errors in Random Zeroth-Order Optimization are Imaginary" (co-authored with Man-Chung Yue and Daniel Kuhn)

Congratulations to Paolo Gherardo Carlet, Andrea Favato, Saverio Bolognani and Florian Dorfler for winning the Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) Prize Paper Award for their paper "Data-Driven Continuous-Set Predictive Current Control for Synchronous Motor Drives"

Common traffic mitigation solutions have a problem: they’re intrinsically unfair. Charging for access shifts the burden of congestion to those less able to pay for it. Our researchers may have found a way around this issue.

On October 24, 2023, the founding meeting of the "Reallabor Sisslerfeld" took place in Münchwilen. The "Verein" (association) will concentrate on creating a living lab for energy and mobility topics. Among those present at the ceremony were Dieter Egli, Cantonal Government Councillor of Aargau and the President of ETH Zurich, Joël Mesot, as well as other high-ranking representatives from politics, administration, research and industry.

We're back with Season 2! 🎉 In our first episode, Davide Scaramuzza from University of Zurich takes us on a journey through magic, autonomous vision-based navigation, agile drone racing, and event-based cameras. 🤖 Ready for takeoff?

The Third Champéry Power Conference on 4-9 February 2024 is organized by the Institute of Sustainable Energy at the School of Engineering of Valais and the Automatic Control Laboratory of the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich. NCCR Automation are proud to sponsor this event.

In the last week of September we welcomed 80 people to the NCCR Symposium on Complex Interconnected Systems and decision making in measure spaces. This is how it went...