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Research Explanation and Application Lab @real-lab.bsky.social · 7d

❓ Did you know that you cannot just turn off run-of-river power plants when there is an overproduction of electric power?

🌊 Yannick Schüpbach explains what you can do instead. www.real-lab.ch/when-water-m...

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Research Explanation and Application Lab @real-lab.bsky.social · 11d

❓ Why do you prefer one brand over another? 💡 Learn more about opinion dynamics from Michelle Egger's explainer!
www.real-lab.ch/the-coke-vs-...

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Research Explanation and Application Lab @real-lab.bsky.social · 18d

💡 How can you make sure the lights stay on and react early on to problems in your power grid?
Ioannis Papadopoulos explains how in our latest REAL text: www.real-lab.ch/know-thy-vol...

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Research Explanation and Application Lab @real-lab.bsky.social · 23d

🤔 Can your heat pump stabilise the electricity grid?

Find out more from Boxuan Yao's text! www.real-lab.ch/flex-your-he...

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Research Explanation and Application Lab @real-lab.bsky.social · Sep 10

🔭 Physical models explain the world in great detail but may be too complex to be useful.

💻 Data-driven models are simpler but do not consider the underlying physics.

🪢 Let's combine the best of both worlds! Muhammad Zakwan explains how.

www.real-lab.ch/simba

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Research Explanation and Application Lab @real-lab.bsky.social · Aug 18

Is stabilising the electricity grid just a game? Jonas Matt's research investigates what a fair rule-book could look like. www.real-lab.ch/a-game-plan-...

A Game Plan for Electricity — Real Lab

Our world relies on electricity. And we rely on the power grid, to deliver this electricity to us. As the world moves toward cleaner electricity, the complexity of this network grows as the number of ...

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NCCR Automation @nccr-automation.bsky.social · Aug 18

New episode of the @incontrolpodcast.bsky.social! Cosimo Della Santina takes us inside soft robotics — a young, daring field where compliance replaces rigidity, intelligence emerges from shape, and underactuation is a feature, not a flaw.

www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/epis...

ep35 - Cosimo Della Santina: From Dexterous Manipulation to Soft Robotics and Embodied Intelligence - inControl

Outline 00:00 – Intro 01:19 – Early steps: PhD journey & robotic hands 15:42 – What is a soft robot?23:35 – MIT years & models of soft robots 30:01 – Discretization & underactuation 37:21 ...

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NCCR Automation @nccr-automation.bsky.social · Jul 7

Last month, when Artur Ekert came to speak at the John von Neumann lecture, we jumped at the chance to sit down with him. Read about what he had to say about privacy in an increasingly online world, and why wandering around can be great for science.

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“You can’t cheat physics”: Artur Ekert explains why only quantum cryptography can ensure security

ETH Zurich Automatic Control Laboratory

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NCCR Automation @nccr-automation.bsky.social · Jun 25

Congratulations to @dorfler.bsky.social who has been given this year's Rössler prize in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the fields of energy and control engineering.

@ethz.ch @ethfoundation.bsky.social

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Florian Dörfler awarded this year’s Rössler Prize

ETH Zurich Automatic Control Laboratory

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Research Explanation and Application Lab @real-lab.bsky.social · Jun 24

Would you like to win the Olympics? Learn how at www.real-lab.ch/optimal-curl...

How to win the Olypics — Real Lab

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NCCR Automation @nccr-automation.bsky.social · Jun 23

Are you an early stage researcher looking to broaden your network and CV with a research stay in Switzerland? You have until 30th June to submit your application.

More details and application: bit.ly/4lkWwp0

Flyer showing that you can apply by 30.06.2025 to receive a stipend to cover the increased living costs of living in Switzerland, max. 6 months to be completed by 31.07.2026, participation in research and social activities and supervision and mentoring in your host lab.

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Research Explanation and Application Lab @real-lab.bsky.social · Jun 16

Did you know that the Swiss railways are not 100% electrified yet? But they soon will be, also thanks to the help of Seraina Wurster's work: www.real-lab.ch/battery-elec...

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incontrolpodcast.bsky.social @incontrolpodcast.bsky.social · Jun 16

🎙️ New episode! Mathukumalli Vidyasagar walks us through five decades of asking (and answering) the right questions in control, learning, and applied math — from feedback systems to statistical learning, HMMs, compressed sensing, and non-convex optimization. Unmissable! 🚀🧠

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NCCR Automation @nccr-automation.bsky.social · Jun 12

Coming to the Swiss CLOCK Summit? Don't miss out on the chance to present your poster. The deadline for poster abstract submissions is on Sunday 15th June. You only have a short time, so get writing! ✍

More info: www.swissclocksummit.com

Flyer for the Swiss CLOCK Summit. 2-5th September 2025 in Engelberg, switzerland. A four day workshop bring together experts from the fields of computation, learning, optimization and control with invited speakers, posters, social activities, workshops and group events.

NCCR Automation @nccr-automation.bsky.social · Jun 10

Last week our researchers enjoyed soft skills week, where they were invited to three specially designed workshops to help them to navigate their work life outside of their academic goals.

Thank you to our workshop leaders @vicentbotellasoler.bsky.social, Benjamin Sawicki and Ning Wang

NCCR Automation @nccr-automation.bsky.social · May 21

Congratulations to Silvia Mastellone who has been made Chair of the IEEE CSS Outreach task force as a recognition of all her hard work and success in founding and establishing the task force.

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Diversity, Outreach, and Development in the CSS [President’s Message]

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NCCR Automation @nccr-automation.bsky.social · May 19

One for the German speakers in our followers - @dorfler.bsky.social was recently interviewed about the blackouts in Spain by @nzz.ch

www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft...

Stromnetz unter Druck: Warum die Energiewende neue Anforderungen an das Stromnetz stellt

Bisher haben Kohle-, Gas- oder Atomkraftwerke das Netz stabil gehalten. Das ändert sich, wenn mehr Wind- und Solarkraft eingespeist wird. ETH-Ingenieur Florian Dörfler über die Probleme der Energiewen...

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NCCR Automation @nccr-automation.bsky.social · May 14

Sometimes making a big difference is more a case of making lots of small differences that add up. What if you could use control theory to make travelling by train even more energy efficient? Check out what Dimitris Kouzoupis and team are doing with their startup nuorail.

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How nuorail powers up energy savings

ETH Zurich Automatic Control Laboratory

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NCCR Automation @nccr-automation.bsky.social · May 9

Come along to the Market Design & Energy Markets Workshop on May 19th 16:15-17:45 at University of Zurich. Featuring talks by NCCR Automation members Keith Moffat and Kai Zhang.

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Flyer shows schedule including location (UZH BLU 003) and timetable: 16:15-17:00 Keith Moffat speaking on Electricity Markets and Zero Marginal Costs. 17:00-17:45 Kai Zhang speaking on Proactive Electricity Markets. 18:00-19:30 social gathering at the Linde Oberstrass

NCCR Automation @nccr-automation.bsky.social · May 5

It's nearly time for the 2025 John von Neumann Lecture! Join us as Artur Ekert guides us through "Privacy for the paranoid ones - the ultimate limits of secrecy"

Tuesday 27th May, 16:00-17:15, ETH Zürich room HG F30 (Audi Max)

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Flyer for the lecture showing time and location

NCCR Automation @nccr-automation.bsky.social · Apr 22

The application portal for the travel grants for the Swiss CLOCK Summit are now open! If you come from an area that is underrepresented in the controls and optimization community then apply for your chance to be sponsored to attend.

www.swissclocksummit.com/young-resear...

CLOCK 2025 - Young researchers

Workshop More information to come soon.

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NCCR Automation @nccr-automation.bsky.social · Apr 15

Start your day the right way - a new episode of the inControl podcast is out! This time host Alberto Padoan is talking to Miroslav Krstic about nonlinear adaptive control, PDEs, delays, extremum seeking, safety and neural operators for control.

www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/epis...

ep31 - Miroslav Krstić: nonlinear adaptive control, PDEs, delays, extremum seeking, safety, neural operators for control - inControl

Outline00:00 - Intro01:07 - Early steps02:47 - Why control?05:20 - The move to the US07:40 - The first journal paper13:30 - What is backstepping?17:08 - Grad school25:10 - Stochastic stabilization29:5...

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NCCR Automation @nccr-automation.bsky.social · Apr 14

Work with us! A postdoc position on Control for Reliability of Electromobility Systems is open at @fhnw.ch

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University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW hiring Postdoctoral Researcher in Control for Reliability of Electromobility Systems in Brugg, Aargau, Switzerland | LinkedIn

Posted 12:35:56 PM. Company DescriptionFHNW is one of Switzerland’s leading universities of applied sciences and arts…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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NCCR Automation @nccr-automation.bsky.social · Apr 8

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.

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Pengbo Zhu, MT180 Finale EPFL 2025

YouTube video by EPFL MT180

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NCCR Automation @nccr-automation.bsky.social · Apr 7

Applications for our fellowship programme are now open! If you are an early stage researcher in a field related to automation and control theory then please apply to come and spend six months working with us.

More details and application: bit.ly/43Iuydv

Need more inspiration? bit.ly/4dKZeQL

Flyer for the NCCR Automation fellowship programme. Apply by 30.06.2025. The fellowship includes a stipend covering a six month research stay in one of our affiliated research labs.

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