Laboratoire d’automatique

Embedded Explicit MPC @ 10 kHz for a Power Converter

Published:30.07.20 — Model Predictive Control (MPC) can be used to control a dc-dc power converter at a 10 kHz rate deployed on an inexpensive 80 MHz microcontroller.

See-you-Outside [email protected]

Published:09.04.20 — The Laboratoire d'Automatique participate to the 2020 LauzHack online hackathon dedicated to tackling the coronavirus crisis and proposed the See-you-outide visual tool to simulate the consequences of different policies adopted in releasing the lockdown, and possibly to compute an optimal policy given a scenario and some target.

LA is member of a new NCCR

Published:10.01.20 — LA participates to newly funded National Center of Competence in Research on "Dependable Ubiquitous Automation"

New PhD student

Published:12.12.19 — Manuel Koch recently joined the LA. He will conduct his PhD on model predictive control of buildings under supervision of Prof. Colin Jones. 

New PhD student

Published:19.11.19 — Paul Scharnhorst recently joined the LA. He will work on data-driven control, more specifically on reinforcement learning for building control toward his PhD with Prof. Colin Jones and CSEM.