Santa is building a huge gingerbread house at the North Pole, but he’s worried it might not stay standing once it’s covered in holiday decorations and delightful treats. The stability of this sweet creation depends on how many candy canes … Continue reading04 – Will the gingerbread house be stable?
It is a frosty Christmas Eve, and Santa is getting ready for his big night of delivering gifts. The sleigh is loaded, the stars are twinkling, but there is one problem – his reindeer have picked up a strange habit. … Continue reading03 – Will Santa’s reindeer reach the magic 88 mph on Christmas Eve?
Santa has parked his red sleigh – due to lack of time in forward direction – in a parking lot perpendicular to the road and left from the yellow Ferrari of the Easter rabbit. (It will be a mess getting … Continue reading02 – How was Easter Bunny’s Ferrari parked when it hit Santa’s sleigh?
This year, the North Pole has been buried under record-breaking snowfall — so much, in fact, that entire workshops briefly vanished under snowdrifts taller than Santa’s sleigh. The elves are exhausted from nonstop shovelling, the reindeer keep losing track of … Continue reading01 – How should Santa deal with the north pole snow chaos?
The holidays are upon us, and it’s time to embrace the magic of the season! From baking warm gingerbread cookies to spreading kindness through good deeds, fetching logs for the fire, and choosing just the right holiday cards – Christmas … Continue reading🎄 Welcome to the 2025 Control Advent Calendar! 🎄
We finally managed to process the points (solving some unexpected challenges) and are very excited to announce the winners of the 2024 Control Advent Calendar! Hence, we are hereby able to give you all some feedback on how it went, … Continue readingCongratulations!
Thank you for participating in the 2024 Control Advent Calendar. As we love feedback, we are very much interested in understanding what you think about CAC, what you liked, where you see room for improvements and any other comments that … Continue readingIt’s all about feedback…
Dear participants, it’s been our great pleasure to have you and we sincerely hope that you enjoyed the Control Advent Calendar as much as we did. Having you participate made it even better for us! We also hope that you … Continue readingThank you!
Author of this question: Steffi Knorn, Fachgebiet Regelungstechnik, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Once the Christmas rush is over, Santa will finally have some well-deserved free time. After a relaxing beach holiday to unwind from all the stress, he plans to put all the control … Continue reading24 – Beachside Brainstorm: What Comes After Christmas?
Author of this question: Paolo Massenio, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione, Politecnico di Bari, Italy A sudden snowstorm has caused Santa Claus’s turbo-sled to run out of reindeer power just as he’s about to deliver the last present to … Continue reading23 – The Last Present: An Alpine Christmas Crisis
