Magnetic bearings constitute our second main research area. Over the years we have developed methods, tools, and applications for this new bearing technology. It is especially suited for vacuum and clean room techniques machine tools, electric drives, and turbo-machinery vibration control including active damping, balancing and identification. Interest from industry in robotics and magnetic bearings has grown substantially. Therefore, we have been concentrating our research on magnetic bearings in the International Center for Magnetic Bearings in the ETH-section of the Zurich Technopark.
Nanotechnology constitutes our third and latest research area.
As Mechatronics comprises technologies where the integration of knowledge from various areas is most essential, we support and we search for cooperation with other researchers and institutions. The Institute of Robotics is a cofounding member of the Mechatronics Group and of the Neuro-Informatics Group. The Neuro-Informatics Group supports a new interdisciplinary research area on the border lines between Neurobiology, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, and Technical Sciences. Members of the group are from the University of Zurich and from the ETH Zurich. Active Magnetic Bearings.