Jekyll2026-03-20T10:20:04+00:00https://alisa-rupenyan.github.io/feed.xmlIndustrial AI Academic website, Alisa Rupenyan, industrial AI for autonomous manufacturing systems, Industrial AI group at ZHAWAlisa Rupenyanalisa.rupenyan@ezhaw.chEnd of 2025 update2026-01-05T00:00:00+00:002026-01-05T00:00:00+00:00https://alisa-rupenyan.github.io/grants/LabUpdates2025 was an amazing year for our group. We tripled in size, in terms of group members, and in projects. We started work on new topics, such as building energy management via learning control (collaboration with the Swiss industry), and dynamic manufacturing scheduling approaches (Horizon EU project). We have further developed the Learning Robotics Lab with several new systems: Winding robot, AGV, and a couple of collaborative robots for manufacturing applications, also focused on deformable object manipulation. Several publications came out (non-exaustive list):…

Differentiable Material Point Method for the Control of Deformable Objects

Iterative Tuning of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Robotic Manufacturing Tasks

Bayesian Optimization for Automatic Tuning of Torque-Level Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

]]>Alisa Rupenyanalisa.rupenyan@ezhaw.chRobotics Lab growing2025-03-14T00:00:00+00:002025-03-14T00:00:00+00:00https://alisa-rupenyan.github.io/posts/2025/03/Learning%20Robotics%20LabOur robotics lab is growing. Here are some recent impressions.

Robotics Lab Image 1 Robotics Lab Image 2

]]>Alisa Rupenyanalisa.rupenyan@ezhaw.chBridge Discovery Grant Accepted!2025-01-02T00:00:00+00:002025-01-02T00:00:00+00:00https://alisa-rupenyan.github.io/grants/BridgeOur collaborative grant focused on robotic 3D-printing has been accepted and jointly funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse). It is a 4-year project for 2 MCHF, and a collaboration with Efe C. Balta at inspire AG and with John Lygeros at the Automatic Control Lab at ETH Zurich.

]]>Alisa Rupenyanalisa.rupenyan@ezhaw.chEnd of the year 20242024-12-30T00:00:00+00:002024-12-30T00:00:00+00:00https://alisa-rupenyan.github.io/posts/End-of-the-year-2024What an year that was. The group grew with two more people (although they will join in a few weeks), we published several cool publications in top venues (such as NeurIPS and Engineering Applications of AI for AI, and in IEEE TCST and IEEE TASE for control and learning). I actively joined the second phase of NCCR Automation, with one PhD project, one postdoc project, and one industry collaboration.

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