The Control Systems Society Chapter is a newly-formed chapter of IEEE Switzerland Section.

Welcome to the webpage of the Swiss Chapter of the IEEE Control Systems Society

The goal of the Chapter is to establish a common umbrella, under the banner of the IEEE Switzerland Section, for promoting advancements in the area of systems and control, strengthening links between industry and academia, and fostering the exchange of ideas between students interested in automation.

To this purpose, the Chapter organizes lectures by renowned experts, co-sponsor PhD schools and initiatives for continuing education, and co-sponsor relevant conferences and workshops in automatic control that take place in Switzerland.

The Chapter also aims at providing a channel for advertising initiatives of the IEEE Control Systems Society at large.

The Award, established in 2022, recognizes outstanding achievement in research in systems and control by a young researcher. The main eligibility conditions are that:

• the candidate must be a member of IEEE-CSS Swiss Chapter;
• the candidate must be 35 years old or younger;
• the candidate must be one of the authors of the nominated paper, published in the past two calendar years on the following society journals: IEEE Control Systems Magazine; IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology; IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems; IEEE Control Systems Letters.

For the 2024 edition, the Award Committee, chaired by Maryam Kamgarpour, assigned the prize to

Paul Scharnhorst

for the work

P. Scharnhorst, E. T. Maddalena, Y. Jiang, and C. N. Jones, “Robust Uncertainty Bounds in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces: A Convex Optimization Approach,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr., vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 2848–2861, May 2023, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2022.3227907

with the following motivation: «The paper is being recognized for its novel approach to derive uncertainty bounds for kernel-based function approximators. The approach differs from concentration bounds currently used in the community – it breaks the independence assumption while providing robust guarantees, which can be incorporated in robust optimization and control»

The Award ceremony on Monday, 10 June, during the retreat of the NCCR Automation at the Hotel Meilenstein, Lotzwilstrasse 66 in Langenthal (Switzerland).

Sponsorship of the MathWorks, which funded the award, is gratefully acknowledged.

The Award committee, chaired by Maryam Kamgarpour is happy to announce the  three finalists of the 2024 edition of the award:

1. Z. He, S. Bolognani, J. He, F. Dörfler, and X. Guan, “Model-Free Nonlinear Feedback Optimization,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr., pp. 1–16, 2023, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2023.3341752.
2. C. L. Galimberti, L. Furieri, L. Xu, and G. Ferrari-Trecate, “Hamiltonian Deep Neural Networks Guaranteeing Nonvanishing Gradients by Design,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr., vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 3155–3162, May 2023, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2023.3239430.
3. P. Scharnhorst, E. T. Maddalena, Y. Jiang, and C. N. Jones, “Robust Uncertainty Bounds in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces: A Convex Optimization Approach,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr., vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 2848–2861, May 2023, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2022.3227907

The winner will be announced during the award ceremony on Monday, 10 June, during the retreat of the NCCR Automation at the Hotel Meilenstein, Lotzwilstrasse 66 in Langenthal (4900).

The sponsorship of Mathworks, which funded the award, is gratefully acknowledged.

The deadline for submitting a short self-nomination has been extended to Wednesday, April 10th, 2024.

For the call details, please see below

We are happy to announce the second edition of the

IEEE Control Systems Society – Swiss Chapter Young Author Best Journal Paper Award

The award, sponsored by MathWorks, addresses young researchers who have recently published papers in a journal of the society.

The deadline for submitting a short self-nomination is March 31st, 2024.

The main eligibility conditions are:

• the candidate must be a member of the IEEE-CSS Swiss Chapter at the time of paper nomination;
• the candidate must be 35 years old or younger on January 1^st, 2024;
• the candidate must be one of the authors of the paper.

Further details are provided in the following document

IEEE CSS Switzerland Young Author Best Paper Award 2024 – Call for Nominations

The Swiss chapter of the CSS is co-sponsoring the NCCR Automation symposium on “Complex Interconnected Systems and
Decision Making in Measure Spaces”

Register before 31st August to secure your place.

We are looking forward to an excellent line-up of speakers on the topics of “complex interconnected systems” and “decision making in probability spaces“.

A workshop on robust decision making in professional environments will also take place on Day 2. If you want to know how to employ your everyday analytical and social skills to address decision making problems in workplace environments, or if you have ever wondered why certain people get promotions while others remain in the same place, this workshop is for you! We will look at different day-to-day problems such as the hiring and appraisal processes.

The Award, established in 2022, recognizes outstanding achievement in research in systems and control by a young researcher. The main eligibility conditions are that:

• the candidate must be a member of IEEE-CSS Swiss Chapter;
• the candidate must be 35 years old or younger;
• the candidate must be one of the authors of the nominated paper, published in the past two calendar years on the following society journals: IEEE Control Systems Magazine; IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology; IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems; IEEE Control Systems Letters.

For the 2023 edition, the Award Committee, chaired by Melanie Zeilinger, assigned the prize to

Mingzhou Yin

for the work

Mingzhou Yin, Andrea Iannelli, and Roy Smith, “Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Data-Driven Modeling and Control,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr., 2023

with the following motivation: «The paper is being recognized for making a timely contribution to address noise-corrupted datasets in data-driven modeling and control through a principled statistical approach. The paper stands out for its completeness and high-impact potential in applications including predictive control and system identification»

The Award ceremony took place on Tuesday 06/06/2023 at 21h00 during the retreat of the NCCR Automation at the Hotel Cailler, Gros-Plan28, 1637 Val-de-Charmey.

Sponsorship of the MathWorks, which funded the award, is gratefully acknowledged.

The Award committee, chaired by Melanie Zeilinger, is happy to announce the  three finalists of the 2023 edition of the award:

1. W. Jongeneel, T. Sutter, and D. Kuhn, “Efficient Learning of a Linear Dynamical System with Stability Guarantees,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr., pp. 1–15, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2022.3213770.
2. M. Gargiani, A. Zanelli, D. Liao-McPherson, T. H. Summers, and J. Lygeros, “Dynamic Programming Through the Lens of Semismooth Newton-Type Methods,” IEEE Control Syst. Lett., vol. 6, pp. 2996–3001, 2022, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2022.3181213.
3. M. Yin, A. Iannelli, and R. S. Smith, “Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Data-Driven Modeling and Control,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr., vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 317–328, Jan. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2021.3137788.

The winner will be announced during the award ceremony on Tuesday, 6 June, during the retreat of the NCCR Automation at the Hotel Cailler, Gros-Plan281637 Val-de-Charmey.

The sponsorship of Mathworks, which funded the award, is gratefully acknowledged.

The deadline for submitting a short self-nomination has been extended to Monday, April 17th, 2023.

For the call details, please see below

We are happy to announce the second edition of the

IEEE Control Systems Society – Swiss Chapter Young Author Best Journal Paper Award

The award, sponsored by MathWorks, addresses young researchers who have recently published papers in a journal of the society.

The deadline for submitting a short self-nomination is March 31st, 2023.

The main eligibility conditions are:

• the candidate must be a member of the IEEE-CSS Swiss Chapter at the time of paper nomination;
• the candidate must be 35 years old or younger on January 1^st, 2023;
• the candidate must be one of the authors of the paper.

Further details are provided in the following document

IEEE CSS Switzerland Young Author Best Paper Award 2023 – Call for Nominations

The Award, established in 2022, recognizes outstanding achievement in research in systems and control by a young researcher. The main eligibility conditions are that:

• the candidate must be a member of IEEE-CSS Swiss Chapter;
• the candidate must be 35 years old or younger;
• the candidate must be one of the authors of the nominated paper, published in the past two calendar years on the following society journals: IEEE Control Systems Magazine; IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology; IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems; IEEE Control Systems Letters.

For the 2022 edition, the Award Committee, chaired by Melanie Zeilinger, assigned the prize to

Jeremy Coulson

for the work

Jeremy Coulson, John Lygeros, and Florian Dörfler, “Distributionally Robust Chance Constrained Data-enabled Predictive Control,”  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, pp. 1–1, 2021, doi: 10.1109/TAC.2021.3097706.

with the following motivation: «The paper makes a fundamental contribution to the theory of data-driven predictive control by extending previous results in particular to address uncertainties through a distributionally robust formulation, while providing an exceptionally clear presentation of the results. »

The Award ceremony took place on Wednesday 22/06/2022 at 20h00 during the retreat of the NCCR Automation at the hotel Caux Palace, Villa Maria, 123 route de Caux, 1824 Caux.

Sponsorship of the IEEE Swiss Section, which funded the award, is gratefully acknowledged.

IEEE Control Systems Society, founded in 1954 is dedicated to the advancement of research, development and practice in automation and control systems.

The society and its members are involved in a number of activities, including publishing journals and a magazine, holding conferences and sponsoring committees in various areas of technical specialisation.

CSS members receives the IEEE Control Systems Magazine while full IEEE Members also receive the IEEE Spectrum and the IEEE Institute, as well as discounts on IEEE publications, IEEE education courses and tutorials and IEEE sponsored conferences.