Achievements

Pol Duhr won the 2nd prize of the "Student Award" at the FISITA 2021 World Congress for the paper "Analysis of optimal energy management strategies for the hybrid electric Formula 1 car under consideration of the finite battery size".

Rahel Rickenbach has been awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award HS 2020 for her excellent and innovative contribution to the teaching of Regeltechnik I.

Pol Duhr has been awarded both the ETH medal 2019 and the Willy Studer Prize 2019 for his outstanding master thesis.

Dr. Mauro Salazar has been awarded the ETH Medal 2019 for his outstanding dissertation "Time-Optimal Control of the Formula 1 Hybrid Electric Power Unit".

Georg Lins was awarded the external page SGA Förderpreis 2019 for the best Master Thesis "Integrated Energy and Emissions Management of HEVs"

Mauro Salazar and Chris Onder were awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the external page IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems for the paper external page "On the Interaction between Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand and Public Transportation Systems".

Giordano Moretto was awarded the external page SGA Förderpreis 2018 for the best Master Thesis "Optimal and Online-Adjustable Emission Control".

Camillo Balerna was awarded the third prize of the external page Johann Puch Automotive Award for his excellent Master Thesis "Real-time Control fo the Power Unit of Hybrid Electric Race Cars using Model Predictive Control".

Dr. Thivaharan Albin has received the external page atp award 2017 for the best scientific atp contribution in the category university for the contribution external page "Nutzung der Redundanz eines 7-DOF Leichtbauroboters".

• Some of the final results and approvements of the research carried out in Prof. Lino Guzzella's automotive group have been covered in articles in the external page Automobilwoche, Bosch Pressinfo and an external page official publication of the EU.
• Dr. Tobias Ott has been external page interviewed on his natural gas Diesel engine.
• The Swiss Federal Council appointed ETH Rector Prof. Lino Guzzella as future President of ETH Zurich. By doing so, the Federal Council has endorsed the unanimous proposal made by the ETH Board. Prof. Lino Guzzella will be taking up his new duties on 1 January 2015.
•  From July 17-19, 2013 the external page European Control Conference 2013 (ECC13) took place 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.
• PhD Candidate Michael Moser and Dr. Christoph Voser have been awarded the Second Place external page Zuger Wissenschaftspreis 2013 for the Master Thesis "Boost Mode Torque Control and Pneumatic Start for Hybrid Pneumatic Engines".
• Prof. Lino Guzzella has been invited to visit the University of California at Berkeley as the Russell Severance Springer Professor.
• PhD candidate Norbert Zsiga has been awarded the external page SGA Förderpreis 2013 for his excellent Master Thesis "Indirect Boosting of Turbocharged SI Engines".

• The ETH Board has elected Prof. Lino Guzzella as the new Rector of ETH Zurich. ETH-Life article
• Prof. Lino Guzzella has been awarded "Golden Owl 2011" excellence in teaching award by VSETH!

• Prof. Lino Guzzella is proposed to the ETH-Board as the new Rector of ETH. ETH-Life article (German only)
• PhD candidate Philipp Elbert, Hans-Jörg Gisler and Prof. Lino Guzzella have been awarded the first prize in the category "Regional: Switzerland" of the external page European Satellite Navigation Competition 2011 with their project "AHEAD - A Predictive Energy Management for Hybrid Electric Buses in Public Transportation". 
• PhD candidate 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".
• PhD candidate Philipp Elbert has been awarded the Hans-Eggenberger-Prize 2010 for his master thesis "Optimal Component Design for Serial Hybrid Electric Buses".
• Dr. Christian Dönitz has been awarded the ETH Medal 2010 for his outstanding dissertation "Hybrid Pneumatic Engines".

• Prof. Lino Guzzella has been elected external page IEEE Fellow for contributions to automotive control systems to reduce pollution emission and fuel consumption.
• Dr. Christian Dönitz has been rewarded the external page Hermann-Appel-Prize 2010 for his dissertation "Hybrid Pneumatic Engines".
• PhD candidate Stephan Zentner won the award external page Diplomandenpreis 2009 from the SEW-EURODRIVE-Foundation for his master thesis "Supercharging a Pneumatic Hybrid Engine (PHybE) - Design, Identification and Control".
• KPMG has awarded its Inspiration Grant to Dr. Christian Doenitz, Prof. Lino Guzzella, Dr. Christopher Onder and PhD candidate Christoph Voser for their work on hybrid pneumatic engines.
• PhD candidate Tobias Ott was awarded the ETH-Medal for his outstanding Master Thesis "Hybrid Pneumatic Engine using Camshaft driven Charge Valves".
• The external page 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.

• Prof. Lino Guzzella has been appointed as a member of the external page Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences(SATW) for his extraordinary contributions to the optimization and control of vehicle drive systems.
• The Institute of Dynamic Systems and Control is visited by China’s Minister for Science and Technology Dr. Wang Gang. ETH Life: Leuchtende Augen für einen Hybrid-Motor: Chinesischer Besuch
  
• 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).
• A new book written by Dr. Guillaume Ducard has been released: "Fault-tolerant Flight Control and Guidance Systems, Practical Methods for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles". Details external page here.
• Article in ETH Life: Download Von Dampfturbinen zu Hybridmotoren und Flugobjekten (PDF, 183 KB)

• Article in ETH Life: Einfach Benzin Sparen
• Media coverage of the Pneumatic-Hybrid-Engine Project. Mit freundlicher Genehmigung der external page Neuen Zürcher Zeitung
• Prof. Lino Guzzella has been awarded the external page 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.
  
• Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Geering holds his farewell lecture with the title: "Hat sich die Regelungstechnik durchgesetzt?", May 9th, 17:15, Audimax, HG F30
• Embedded Control Systems is a new lecture at IMRT hold by Prof. Jim Freudenberg, Professor and Director of the Systems Laboratory at the University of Michigan. The full time block course comprises lectures and practical lab exercises using a haptic device as an example for a mechatronic system.

• The prototype-testing of the Retrofitkit has been covered by an Download article (PDF, 203 KB) in "Der Landbote"
• A new external page book by Prof. H.P. Geering has been published.
• The external page Swiss Office of Energy has awarded the 2007 Watt d'Or Award for energy efficient mobility to the PAC-Car II Team.

• With his paper "Detailed Dynamic Modeling of Auto-Thermal Gasoline Fuel-Processors" PhD Candidate Thomas Böhme won the "Student Congress Award" at the external page FISITA 2006 World Automotive Congress in Yokohama.
• The Clean Engine Vehicle project (EMPA, LAV, IMRT) received the 2006 Innovation Prize of the German Gas Industry, category „environmentally friendly mobility: natural gas in transportation“
• From October 30 to November 3, Prof. Anna G. Stefanopoulou (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) hold a Block Course on “Powertrain Control” at IDSC
• Prof. Lino Guzzella has been appointed to the nominating committee for the "CNN Future Summit"!
  
• Dr. Markus Möckli received the Jakob Ackeret Award from the external page Swiss Association of Aeronautical Sciences for his thesis work: the development of an entirely autonomous aerobatical auto pilot.

• external page Symposium on Automatic Control Systems
• The PAC-Car II team wins the 2005 external page Energy Globe Award in the category youth.
• The PAC-CAR II team achieves an incredible result at the external page Shell Eco-marathon! 3,836 km/l using hydrogen and even better... At the Shell Eco-marathon on the Michelin proving grounds in Ladoux PAC-Car II achieved the result of 5385 km/l of gasoline! Congratulations for this outstanding new World Record!
• Two new books have been published: external page Vehicle Propulsion Systems and external page Introduction to Modeling and Control of Internal Combustion Engine Systems.