Center for Digital Engineering (CDE)

The mission of Skoltech Center for Digital Engineering is to educate, research and innovate to enhance the sustainable development of society through a synergy of world-class academic science and cutting-edge engineering. From Systems Engineering to Robotics and Space Exploration, we craft high level educational programs and pivotal high-tech digital products and materials, integrating advanced technologies like Digital Twins and Product Lifecycle Management. Our focus spans autonomous robotic platforms, intelligent sensors, and AI algorithms, digitalizing sectors from precision agriculture to biomedicine and aerospace. Delving into deep science, we advance space exploration, launching CubeSats, and developing predictive models for satellite navigation, remote sensing, solar physics and space weather. With a commitment to excellence, we advance fundamental discoveries, bridging curiosity and utility with start-ups, with profound effects on science, education, and society.

Tatiana

Podladchikova

Associate Professor

Director of the Center for Digital Engineering

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Laboratories & research groups

Space Weather Laboratory

Head - Tatiana Podladchikova, Associate Professor

The Space Weather Lab studies Solar-Terrestrial Physics and how the Sun creates Space Weather, investigating phenomena such as flares, coronal mass ejections, solar activity, solar wind, and geomagnetic storms, while advancing forecasting and services.

Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory (ISR Lab)

Head - Dzmitry Tsetserukou, Associate Professor

The Skoltech Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory has extensive experience in developing designs and methods for navigation and control of UAVs, mobile wheeled and walking robots, collaborative robotics and human-robot interaction, haptic VR interfaces and large language models. The goal is to bring new frontiers in collaboration between humans and robots, as well as foster synergies among diverse types of robots in joint missions.

Advanced Microsatellites Laboratory (AMSL)

Head - Dmitry Ris, Senior Engineer

The Advanced microsatellites laboratory designs and builds CubeSat satellites and conducts a series of tests (thermo vacuum, functional, mechanical). Laboratory engineers develop transport containers for FemtoSat satellites.

Cyber-physical systems laboratory (CPS)

Head - Panayi Andreas, Professor of the Practice

The Laboratory of Cyber-Physical Systems explores the development and application of a set of tools and the methodology of Product Life Cycle Management of complex technical products, industrial processes for implementation at all stages of their life cycles.

Hierarchically Structured Materials Laboratory (HSM)

Modern functional and structural materials achieve the highest efficiency of using their properties in a variety of complex applications under the condition of coordinated and complex optimisation of their structure at all hierarchically organised dimensional levels.

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