Prof. Dr.
Roy
Smith
Alumni
Retired Adjunct Professor at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering.
Professor Smith’s field of expertise is feedback control systems and automation, in which he is known as an experimentalist and design engineer as well as a theorist. He has applied his research to a variety of experimental testbeds, including process control systems, flexible space structures, power generating kites, and energy control for buildings and districts.
Work Topic
Prof. Smith was an NCCR PI in Phase 1 of the NCCR (2014-2018) responsible for research in complex systems, specifically related to the net-fabric formwork of the HiLo project.
Role in the NCCR Digital Fabrication
Alumni: Principal Investigator
Current position
Retired - Professor D-ITET, ETH ZurichNCCR publications
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Active control of a rod-net formwork system prototype (2018)
- Date: 01.12.2018
- Authors: Dr. Andrew Liew, Yvonne R. Stürz, Sebastien Guillaume, Dr. Tom Van Mele, Prof. Dr. Roy Smith, Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
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Sequential Quadratic Programming for the Control of an Architectural Cable Net Geometry (2016)
- Date: 01.01.2016
- Authors: Yvonne R. Stürz, Prof. Dr. Manfred Morari, Prof. Dr. Roy Smith
- Event: 2016 American Control Conference (ACC 2016)
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- Date: 01.01.2016
- Authors: Yvonne R. Stürz, Prof. Dr. Manfred Morari, Prof. Dr. Roy Smith
- Event: 2016 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA 2016)