RectorateOpen OpportunitiesBuilding Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) facades enable buildings to generate their own energy, reducing reliance on the grid and lowering carbon emissions. This project explores the current state of BIPV applications in Swiss cities and architects’ perspectives on designing these facades. - Building, Environmental Technologies
- Master in Integrated Building Systems (ETHZ), Master Thesis
| Urban Building Energy Models (UBEM) often require detailed inputs such as window-to-wall ratios [1] and construction materials [2] to increase their accuracy. However, this information is typically neither stored nor readily accessible [3]. This thesis aims to augment energy models with information obtained from visual data using machine learning techniques. - Architecture, Urban Environment and Building, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition
- Master in Integrated Building Systems (ETHZ), Master Thesis
| Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPVs) are increasingly being incorporated into urban building facades. Accurately modeling the temperature of BIPV cells is crucial, given its significant implications for urban environments. Elevated surface temperatures can alter radiant temperatures and subsequently modify microclimates, thereby deteriorating outdoor thermal comfort. While several studies have validated surface temperatures, they have not specifically addressed BIPV wall constructions. This thesis aims to address this research gap by modeling a case study in Switzerland and validating it with historical data. - Architecture, Urban Environment and Building
- Master in Integrated Building Systems (ETHZ), Master Thesis
| Model Predictive Control (MPC) is extensively utilized in industry and academia. However, designing an optimal cost function and constraints for achieving the best closed-loop performance remains an open challenge. This project seeks to bridge this gap by framing the problem as a policy optimization problem and solving it through the application of gradient-based optimization schemes. - Electrical Engineering
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
| In Formula 1 races, the psychology of human drivers plays a significant role in winning. Who is willing to take more risks and act more aggressively to secure victory? In this project, we aim to replicate such edge scenarios in autonomous racing. Until now, autonomous race cars often act conservatively, assuming the opponent's trajectory is fixed and not pushing to the limits of their constraints. Using game-theoretic control, we want to model the strategic, risky decision-making that happens on the race track. Specifically, we will delve into the competitive behaviors emerging from feedback Nash Equilibria (NE) and open-loop NE and explore whether we can encourage agents to be more aggressive with one solution concept over the other. Can we demonstrate the superiority of feedback equilibria theoretically and in simulation? - Intelligent Robotics, Robotics and Mechatronics, Systems Theory and Control, Systems Theory and Control
- ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Master Thesis, Semester Project
| Prosumer communities leverage and share locally generated energy. In response to the Swiss Energy Strategy 2050 and potential gas supply vulnerabilities, transitioning from singular, gas/oil-reliant energy systems to multi-energy networks is imperative. Unlike conventional individual systems where devices are often oversized and underutilized due to being designed for demand peaks, a prosumer community can optimize device use, reducing both energy costs, investment overheads and ecological impact. Therefore, when properly designed and operated, prosumer communities mitigate the inefficiencies typical of traditional setups. However, achieving optimal design is challenging due to complex interactions among stakeholders. The economic and ecological aspects of prosumer communities need to be thoroughly investigated taking into account different scenarios, energy demands and building types. This project aims to investigate various case studies for prosumer communities in the Swiss scenario and explore the technological solutions that mostly benefit from energy sharing. - Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- Semester Project
| This project aims at automatically learning problem-dependent uncertainty sets by exploiting available data on the uncertain parameters, hence surpassing the limitations of traditional methods such as robust and stochastic optimization approaches that assume the exact knowledge of the support set and of the probability distribution respectively. - Information, Computing and Communication Sciences, Optimisation, Systems Theory and Control
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
| The project investigates the development of a co-axial extrusion methods for large-scale 3D printing bio-cementation structures. The extruded paste will host microorganisms such as S.Pasteurii, capable of precipitating calcite (MICP) to create bio-concrete structures. A robotic paste 3D printing platform will be used for the fabrication process; the bio-paste will be precipitated and calcified by the bacterial activity reinforcing the material. - Architecture, Urban Environment and Building, Chemistry, Engineering and Technology
- Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, Semester Project
| Sum-of-Squares (SOS) relaxation is a beautiful technique to solve nonconvex optimization problems. As computational capabilities continue to increase, so is the scope of engineering challenges that can be tackled with this method. The goal of this project is to exploit the flexibility of SOS relaxations to design new data-driven control methods for linear dynamics, that can more efficiently incorporate prior knowledge on the system and cope with noisy input-output data. - Dynamical Systems, Optimisation, Systems Theory and Control
- Applications (IfA), Computation (IfA), Master Thesis, Theory (IfA)
| In this project, we will investigate when global production systems fail and how the productivity level is impacted by local interaction structures and selfish decision-making dynamics via mathematical analysis and simulation. We will extend existing models on the two-player production system game to multi-player production system with general connectivity structures modeled via graph theory, and investigate various player dynamics (e.g. consensus, best response, gradient descent) in combination with different interconnection structures(e.g. trees, small-world network, star) to study the stability of the overall supply chain. - Engineering and Technology, Operations Research, Optimisation, Systems Theory and Control
- Master Thesis
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