Welcome
Welcome to the ControlX research group of the University of Turku, within the field of automation and electrical engineering, which develops and provides control and coordination of manned and unmanned vehicles. The research addresses challenges arising in modern engineering applications where systems are increasingly autonomous, interconnected, and electrified.
A key research theme is the study of swarms of vehicles, defined as groups of unmanned robots that work together to achieve a specific goal. These swarms include unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), as well as heterogeneous combinations of multiple vehicle types. The research focuses on developing distributed formation control and cooperative control frameworks that ensure scalability, collision avoidance, robustness to failures, energy efficiency, and high control performance in complex and uncertain environments.
In addition, ControlX research addresses control challenges in electric vehicles (EVs), focusing on energy-aware operation, system-level optimisation, coordinated control, and management and coordination of EVs, while leveraging digital twins for monitoring, predictive control, and simulation. By integrating control theory, optimisation, and learning-based methods, the research bridges theory and practice, advancing safe and sustainable electrified mobility.