News

17.-19.7.13

European Control Conference 2013 (ECC13) at ETH Zurich

The European Control Conference (ECC) is organized every two years under the auspices of the European Union Control Association (EUCA). The conference aims to bring together academic and industrial professionals in the field of systems and control, and to promote scientific cooperation and exchanges within the European Union and between Europe and other parts of the world. ECC13 is the 12th in the EUCA Series of European Control Conferences and will be held in Zurich, Switzerland from July 17 to 19, 2013. ETH Zurich will host the conference.

5.03.2013

Lino Guzzella has been invited to visit the University of California at Berkeley as the Russell Severance Springer Professor.

22.02.2013

Dario Brescianini, master student with Prof. D'Andrea at IDSC, published a video that shows two quadrocopters throwing and catching an inverted pendulum and received extensive media coverage. Video: http://youtu.be/pp89tTDxXuI; Write-up: http://robohub.org/?p=8959

29.01.2013

Congratulations! Norbert Zsiga, PhD candidate with Prof. Lino Guzzella at IDSC, has been awarded the SGA Förderpreis 2013 for his excellent Master Thesis "Indirect Boosting of Turbocharged SI Engines".

21.1.2013

Raffaello D'Andrea has presented a Keynote entitled "Feedback Control and the Coming Machine Revolution" at ZURICH.MINDS.

07.12.2012

Congratulations! Federico Augugliaro and Robin Ritz, both PhD candidates with Prof. D'Andrea at IDSC, have jointly been awarded the Hans-Eggenberger-Prize 2012 for their excellent Master Theses.

12.11.2012

Article in the SonntagsZeitung: Die Dressur der Drohnen (German only).

29.11.2012

Join our Open Lab and Master Info Event on November 29th, 2012. More information here.

23.10.2012

The Flying Machine Arena gets extensive media coverage: Perfekte Teamarbeit: Quadrocopter im Einsatz (Financial Times Deutschland), Quadrocopter leisten die perfekte Teamarbeit (Die Welt), Perfekte Teamarbeit: Quadrocopter im Einsatz (Spiegel Online)

24.8.2012

Congratulations! Angela Schoellig has been appointed Assistant Professor for Robotics and Controls at the University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), where she will be joining the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering in January 2013.

9.8.2012

Article in Technology Review - August 2012: Fliegen mit Teamgeist.

16.7.2012

Article in c't2012, No. 16: Flugzirkus - Spielerische Forschung mit Quadrokoptern.

06.07.2012

Congratulations! Federico Augugliaro won the "Willi Studer Award 2012” for the best master degree in Robotics, Systems and Control.

12.03.2012

Congratulations! We proudly announce that the ETH Board has elected Lino Guzzella as the new Rector of ETH Zurich. ETH-Life article

01.02.2012

Congratulations! Mark Müller won the Jakob Ackeret Award 2011 for his master thesis "Quadrocopter Ball Juggling".

22.01.2012

Congratulations! Lino Guzzella has been awarded "Golden Owl 2011" excellence in teaching award by VSETH!

20.1.2012

Flying Robots Build a 6-Meter Tower. Ieee Spectrum article

16.12.2011

Congratulations!! We proudly announce that Lino Guzzella is proposed to the ETH-Board as the new Rector of ETH. ETH-Life article (German only)

16.12.2011

Join our Open Lab and Master Info Event on 16th Dec. 2011. More information here.

27.10.2011

Congratulations! Philipp Elbert, Hans-Jörg Gisler and Lino Guzzella have been awarded the first prize in the category "Regional: Switzerland" of the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2011 with their project "AHEAD - A Predictive Energy Management for Hybrid Electric Buses in Public Transportation".

14.09.2011

Congratulations! Sebastian Trimpe and Raffaello D'Andrea won the IFAC World Congress Interactive Paper Prize. Their paper, "An Experimental Demonstration of a Distributed and Event-based State Estimation Algorithm", was selected from 450 interactive papers presented at the triennial congress held in Milan.

07.09.2011

The Flying Machine Arena has been featured on German TV (PRO 7 Galileo). Please click here.

18.04.2011

Congratulations! Gregor Ochsner was awarded the ETH-Medal for his outstanding Master Thesis "Valve Design and Torque Control of a Hybrid Pneumatic Engine with Camshaft Driven Charge Valves".

01.04.2011

Join the Lab Tour to get informed about our Master Programs on 1st Apr. 2010. More information here.

24.03.2011

The Flying Machine Arena on TV in Canada, Switzerland and Germany. Please click here.

23.02.2011

RoboEarth receives extensive media coverage! Please click here.

21.01.2011

Congratulations! Philipp Elbert has been awarded the Hans-Eggenberger-Prize 2010 for his master thesis "Optimal Component Design for Serial Hybrid Electric Buses".

14.01.2011

Congratulations! Christian Dönitz has been awarded the ETH Medal 2010 for his outstanding dissertation "Hybrid Pneumatic Engines".

15.12.2010

Congratulations! Lino Guzzella has been elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to automotive control systems to reduce pollution emission and fuel consumption.

26.11.2010

Join our Open House Day and Master Info Event on 26th Nov. 2010. More information here.

22.11.2010

Congratulations! Raffaello D'Andrea has been awarded the "Golden Owl 2010" excellence in teaching award by VSETH!

18.11.2010

Congratulations! Christian Dönitz has been rewarded the Hermann-Appel-Prize 2010 for his dissertation "Hybrid Pneumatic Engines".

27.10.2010

Congratulations! Raffaele Bornatico won the Premio Pro Ticino di Zurigo 2009 for his Master Thesis "Investigation on the Fuel Path Dynamics of a Spark Ignited Engine".

18.06.2010

Congratulations! Stephan Zentner won the award Diplomandenpreis 2009 from the SEW-EURODRIVE-Foundation for his master thesis "Supercharging a Pneumatic Hybrid Engine (PHybE) - Design, Identification and Control".

04.06.2010

Congratulations! KPMG has awarded its Inspiration Grant to Christian Doenitz, Lino Guzzella, Christopher Onder and Christoph Voser for their work on hybrid pneumatic engines.

29.04.2010

Tobias Ott was awarded the ETH-Medal for his outstanding Master Thesis "Hybrid Pneumatic Engine using Camshaft driven Charge Valves".

07.01.2010

The Swiss Office of Energy has awarded the year 2010 Watt d'Or Award to the Hybrid Pneumatic Powertrain team for its contributions towards a better fuel economy of passenger cars.

23.11.2009

Congratulations! Raffaello D'Andrea has been elected IEEE Fellow for his distinguished contributions to control of autonomous systems.

17.09.2009

Article on PopSci.com: A Robot That Juggles Blind

03.09.2009

Lino Guzzella has been appointed as a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences(SATW) for his extraordinary contributions to the optimization and control of vehicle drive systems.

06.08.2009

ETH Life: Zurück zur Sinnlichkeit: Dossier Studierendenprojekte

26.09.2009

ETH Life: Leuchtende Augen für einen Hybrid-Motor: Chinesischer Besuch

19.06.2009

Announcement of Name Change

As the nature of our research has changed, so have we. To better reflect our current work, we have changed our name from “Institute für Mess- und Regeltechnik” (IMRT) to “Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control – Institut für Dynamische Systeme und Regelungstechnik” (IDSC).

Though we remain the same legal entity as before, our mailing and web address have been affected by the change. Please update your records.

More information about the name change can be found in the May edition of ETH Life.

01.06.2009

New Book

A new book written by Guillaume Ducard will be released this June:
"Fault-tolerant Flight Control and Guidance Systems, Practical Methods for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles". Details here.

01.05.2009

ETH Life: Von Dampfturbinen zu Hybridmotoren und Flugobjekten

06.-15.03.2009

The Robotic Chair comes to Zurich!

March 5th-16th at the Cabaret Voltaire, Spiegelgasse 1, Zurich.

Performance Schedule

Tuesday to Friday: 12:30; 15:00; 18:00; 19:30
Saturday and Sunday: 13:00; 15:00; 17:00
Closed Mondays.

A generic-looking wooden chair with the capacity to fall apart and put itself back together, The Robotic Chair is a collaborative project by ETH Professor Raffaello D'Andrea, ETH Artist in Residence/Industrial Designer Matt Donovan and Canadian artist Max Dean.

A poignant representation of society and the individual - falling apart, falling down, gathering oneself together, picking oneself up, again and again - The Robotic Chair reminds us not only of our fallibility, but also of our innate capacity for re-creating and redeeming ourselves in the face of catastrophe.

The Robotic Chair is made of sophisticated mechanisms charged with the task of locating its scattered parts and reassembling itself. The chair is not dependent on viewer presence or interaction to perform.

01.03.2009

Handelzeitung:Robotic Chair - mehr als Kunst

27.01.2009

ETH Life: Einfach Benzin Sparen

12.10.2008

Hybrid Pneumatic Engine

Media coverage of the Pneumatic-Hybrid-Engine Project.

Mit freundlicher Genehmigung der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung

29.08.2008

Congratulations! Lino Guzzella has been awarded the 2008 Industry Award for Excellence in Translational Control Research, given to recognize an individual or a team of faculty researchers whose research activity, arising from Industry-University Collaboration(s), has produced substantive results with demonstrated impact.

The award was made to the competitor who best demonstrated research with a high-degree of excellence and effective industry-university collaboration, with a proven record of success in translating systems and control theory to practical benefits for industrial or commercial systems. 

16.06.2008

Raffaello D'Andrea co-recipient of the 2008 IEEE/IFR Invention and Entrepreneurship Award.