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05.03.2013

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, has been awarded the SGA Förderpreis 2013 for his excellent Master Thesis.

21.1.2013

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

07.12.2012

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).

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".

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

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.

14.01.2011

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

06.01.2011

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

15.12.2010

Congratulations! Lino Guzzella has been elected IEEE Fellow.

22.11.2010

Congratulations! Raffaello D'Andrea won the Golden Owl 2010.

26.11.2010

Open House Day and Master Info Event at IDSC.

27.10.2010

Congratulations! Raffaele Bornatico won the Premio Pro Ticino di Zurigo 2009.

18.06.2010

Congratulations! Stephan Zentner won the award Diplomandenpreis 2009 from the SEW-EURODRIVE-Foundation.

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.

Choosing your tutor or thesis advisor is an important decision. It can also be a difficult one, as the area of interest and expectations of the professor you choose to work with will strongly influence the framework of your curriculum and the direction of your research.

Before you contact the professor, it is important that you take the time to carefully review his or her research pages to see if they match with your area of interest.

For more information about Prof. Raffaello D'Andrea's research, click here.

For more information about Prof. Lino Guzzella's research, click here.

Master Students

1. Carefully read the rules and regulations for Masters students:

Information for Application/Admission of Master students, click here;
Information on Master in Robotics, Systems, and Control, click here;
Information on Master in Mechanical Engineering, click here.

2. Create a list of courses that you would like to take.

Prof. Raffaello D'Andrea's sample curriculum: for Master in Mechanical Engineering click here; for Master in Robotics, Systems and Control click here.
Prof. Lino Guzzella's sample curriculum: Master in Mechanical Engineering click here; Master in Robotics, Systems and Control click here.
For a complete list of tutors in the Mechanical Engineering Department (MAVT), click here. For a complete list of tutors in Robotics, Systems and Control, click here.
Fill out the appropriate form: Tutor/Student Agreement

3.
a) Prof. Guzzella: Email Prof. Guzzella: lguzzella@ethz.ch (copy Ms. Fattor: afattor@ethz.ch) at the beginning of the semester to set up a 30 minute appointment to discuss your selection and to ask Prof. Guzzella any non-administrative questions.

b) Prof. D'Andrea: Please note that due to his upcoming sabbatical, Prof. D'Andrea is unable to act as tutor for students that have not been assigned to him in their admission letter. However, depending on your tutor's policy, you are free to do your semester or master project at the institute. In particular, you do not need an IDSC tutor to do a project or thesis at IDSC.

4. For administrative questions: please contact Ms. Munz katmunz@ethz.ch or Ms. Fattor afattor@ethz.ch.

5. Leave the signed Tutor/Student Agreement with Ms. Munz (MLK 32.3). She will copy it and give the original to D-MAVT administration.

The Tutor/Student Agreement must be received by us and submitted to DMAVT within 3 weeks after the start of the semester.

PhD Students

ETH Zurich has no institutionalized doctorate admission process; each professor decides whether he or she has an open PhD position. If you are interested in applying to be a PhD student, please click here.

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