Achievements

The following achievements do not include Professor Raffaello D'Andrea. His achievements can be viewed on his CV

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Dr. Carlo Sferrazza, ETH Medal for his excellent Doctoral Thesis 'A general framework for high-resolution robotic tactile sensing: design, simulation and learning', 2022
Dr. Carlo Sferrazza, SNSF Postdoc Mobility Fellowship to undertake the project 'Empowering robots with tactile sensing: towards a general artificial intelligence' at UC Berkeley, 2022
Jasan Zughaibi, ETEL Award and Hans-Eggenberger Award for his excellent Master Thesis, 2021
Yaohui Huang, ETEL Award and SGA Förderpreis for his excellent Master Thesis, 2021
Niklas Funk, ETH Medal for his outstanding Master Thesis in Robotics, Systems and Control, 2021
Thomas Boyang Bi, ETH Medal for his outstanding Master Thesis and Willi Studer Prize for the best Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, 2021
C. Trueeb, C. Sferrazza and R. D'Andrea, Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, for co-authored paper entitled 'Towards Vision-Based Robotic Skins: A Data-Driven, Multi-Camera Tactile Sensor', 2020
C. Trueeb, ETEL Award for his excellent Master's Thesis 'An End-to-End Approach to Multi-Camera Tactile Sensing', 2020
P. Werner, SGA Förderpreis for his Bachelor thesis, 2019
J.Sun & R.Gill, 2019 CCTA Outstanding Student Paper Award for co-authored paper entitled 'Vehicle Platoon Control with Virtual Path Constraints' (IEEE Control Systems Society), 2019
M. Mühlebach, Hilti prize for his excellent Doctoral Thesis 'On the stabilization of unstable systems - some comments and applications'. 2019
L. Beffa, SGA Förderpreis for his Master's thesis, 2018
L. Spannagl, SGA Förderpreis for his Bachelor thesis, 2018
M. Mühlebach, ETH Medal for his excellent Doctoral Thesis 'On the stabilization of unstable systems - some comments and applications'. 2018
M. Mühlebach, Branco Weiss Fellowship, 2018. The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science is a unique postdoc program. It awards young researchers around the world with a generous personal research grant, giving them the freedom to work on whatever topic they choose anywhere in the world, for up to five years. It is one of the most prestigious awards in Switzerland
L. Beffa, ETH Medal for his Master's thesis, 2018
C. Sferrazza, ETEL Award for his excellent Master's thesis 'Parametrized model predictive control on the flying platform: trajectory tracking and full constraint satisfaction' 2017
M. Mühlebach, SNSF Mobility Fellowship award for project 'A dynamic systems perspective of optimization' to be undertaken at UC Berkeley. 2017
M. Müller, ETH Medal for his excellent Doctoral Thesis "Increased autonomy for quadrocopter systems: trajectory generation, fail-safe strategies, and state estimation".
M. Hofer, ETH Medal for Best Master Thesis in Robotics, Systems and Control, May 2016. (finishing 2015)
M. Schulz, ETH Medal for Best Master Thesis in Mechanical Engineering, May 2016. (finishing 2015)
F. Byland. Willi Studer Award for Best Master's in Robotics, Systems and Control, May 2016. (finishing 2015)
W. Zhang. Willi Studer Award for Best Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, May 2016. (finishing 2015)
M. Müller. Increased autonomy for quadrocopter systems: trajectory generation, fail-safe strategies, and state estimation. PhD thesis, 2016 (Georges Giralt PhD Award for the best robotics PhD thesis in Europe)
A. Ledergerber, ETEL Award for his excellent Master's thesis 'A robot self-localiazation system using one-way ultra-wideband communication'. 2015
M. Hehn. Optimality-based trajectory generation and periodic learning control for quadrocopters. PhD thesis, 2014. (Winner, Jakob Ackeret award)
F. Fontana, Control of a swinging juggling robot. Master thesis, 2014 (SEW-Eurodrive Foundataion Graduate Award)
S. Trimpe. If there is something to say. In Bild der Wissenschaft plus, Oct. 2014. (Winner, Klaus Tschira award for achievements in public understanding of science, category: computer science)
M. Mühlebach. Willi Studer Award for Best Master’s in Robotics System and Control, March 2014. (finishing 2013)
M. Hehn and R. D’Andrea. An iterative learning scheme for high performance, periodic quadrocopter trajectories. In European Control Conference, 2013. (Finalist, best student paper)
R. Oung and R. D’Andrea. The Distributed Flight Array. In Mechatronics, Volume 21, Issue 6, Sept. 2011. (Winner, IFAC Mechatronics best paper prize for 2011-2013)
A. Schöllig. Improving tracking performance by learning from past data. PhD thesis, 2012. (Winner, ETH medal)
A. Schöllig. Improving tracking performance by learning from past data. PhD thesis, 2012. (Winner, Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation award)
S. Trimpe and R. D’Andrea. An experimental demonstration of a distributed and event-based state estimation algorithm. In 18th IFAC World Congress, 2011. (Winner, best interactive paper)
R. Oung, F. Bourgault, M. Donovan, and R. D’Andrea. The Distributed Flight Array. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010. (Finalist, best paper)
R. Oung, A. Ramezani, and R. D’Andrea. Feasibility of a distributed flight array. In IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2009. (Winner, general chairs’ recognition award for interactive papers)

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Anton Ledergerber, Invited talk at the Robotics and Perception Group at ETZ (Prof D. Scaramuzza): 'Ultra-wideband Communication: Sensing with the Channel Impulse Response'. 2020
Michael Mühlebach, Invited talk at the Automotive Control Laboratory (Prof. C. Jones, Prof T.G. Ferrari) at EPFL: 'Parametrized Model Predictive Control'. 2017
Matthias Hofer, ETH Kader Meeting, Presentation of the Flying Machine Arena, 2017
Michael Mühlebach, Controls Lab Bochum, 2016: Presentation of a novel model predictive control approach
Philipp Reist, Institute of Mathematics, Universität Freiburg, 2015: Mathematics with Robots
Mark Muller, University of Illinois, 2015: Towards greater autonomy in small flying vehicles
Mark Muller, Caltech, 2015: Towards greater autonomy in small flying vehicles
Mark Muller, UC Berkeley, 2015: Towards greater autonomy in small flying vehicles
Mark Muller, Swiss-Kyoto symposium, robotics researchers from Switz. & Univ. of Kyoto, 2013: The Flying Machine Arena
Nico Huebel, Systems and control seminar, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2013: Robotic calligraphy - a learning approach
Mark Muller, Computer science seminar, University of Witwatersrand, 2013: The Flying Machine Arena
Mark Muller, Controls system course for undergraduate EE students, University of Pretoria, 2013: The Flying Machine Arena
Raymond Oung, Research and Engineering Centre for Unmanned Vehicles, Boulder for Robots, 2013: The Distributed Flight Array
Sebastian Trimpe, Seminar at the Hybrid and Networked Systems Group, Eindhoven University of Technology: Event-based state estimation for networked control systems
Markus Waibel, Cloud Robotics, Keynote, 2012: Robotik heute und morgen
Sebastian Trimpe, Workshop on event-based control and optimization, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, 2012: Event-based state estimation for networked control systems
Sergei Lupashin, California Institute of Technology, 2012: The Flying Machine Arena
Sebastian Trimpe, Seminar at the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, University of Southern California, 2012: Event-based state estimation for networked control systems
Sebastian Trimpe, Seminar at the Automatic Control Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, 2012: Event-based state estimation for networked control systems
Angela Schöllig, Robotics summer school on autonomous micro aerial vehicles, Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich , 2011: Coordination and synchronization for a rhythmic flight performance
Angela Schöllig, Special education session, American Control Conference, San Francisco, 2011: Flying robots on stage - control and learning for aerial acrobatics
Angela Schöllig, Internal seminar, Stanford University, 2011: Control and learning for aerial vehicles - where optimization is required
Angela Schöllig, LCCC seminar, Lund Center for Control of Complex Engineering Systems, Lund University, 2010: Optimization-based learning
Angela Schöllig, Workshop on adaptation and learning in autonomous systems, Lund Center for Control of Complex Engineering Systems, Lund University, 2010: Synchronizing motion to music – a rhythmic flight performance
Angela Schöllig, Smart systems seminar, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 2010: Learning through experience - improving performance by repetition

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Carlo Sferrazza; WORLD. MINDS, 2019: Optical Touch
Carlo Sferrazza, House of Electronic Arts, Basel, 2019: AI in robotics for tactile skins
Carlo Sferrazza and Matthias Hofer, WEF Davos, 2019: Presentation of Cubli
Michael Mühlebach, WEF Davos, 2017: Presentation of Cubli
Philipp Reist, Kinderuni Hochrhein, 2015: Feedback control with FMA
Max Kriegleder TEDxAthens, 2014: Cooperation in multi-agent systems
Mark Muller, TEDxAirbus, 2014: The autonomous quadrocopter
Markus Hehn, TEDxFlanders, 2014: Learning algorithms in aerial vehicles
Gajamohan Mohanarajah, TEDxAdliswil, 2014: Building an internet for robots
Mark Muller, IFAC public lecture, 2014: Quadrocopter dynamics: a demonstration
Max Kriegleder and Raymond Oung, Zurich Minds, 2013: The Distributed Flight Array
Gajamohan Mohanarajah, Zurich Minds, 2013: The Cubli
Philipp Reist, Zurich Minds, 2011: The Blind Juggler, controlling the uncontrollable.
Geo Robson, Zurich Minds, 2009: Wingsuit aerodynamics
Sergei Lupashin, Zurich Minds, 2008: Autonomous quadrotor aerobaticsexternal page

Group’s videos collectively viewed more than 33 million times. Top 7 videos, by views as of January 2019:

external pageThe Monospinner: a controllable flying vehicle with a single moving part (300k views)
external pageMeet the dazzling flying machines of the future | Raffaello D'Andrea (4.9 million views)
external pageThe Cubli: a cube that can jump up, balance, and 'walk' (11.1 million views)
external pageThe astounding athletic power of quadcopters (11.5 million views)
external pageQuadrocopter ball juggling (> 3.2 million views)
external pageBuilding a rope bridge with flying machines (> 1.2 million views)
external pageSparked: a live interaction between humans and quadcopters (> 0.9 million views)