Zdeněk Hurák of AA4CC, DCE, FEE, CTU

Presentation of activities and projects currently under way at the Department of Control Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, with emphasis on possible international collaboration. 

Biography:

Dr. Zdeněk Hurák (*1974) is a docent (~associate professor) in technical cybernetics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. He is a deputy head of the the Department of Control Engineering, within which he chairs his AA4CC research group. He received his Ph.D. degree in Cybernetics and Robotics at Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2004, (PhD advisor Michael Šebek), for his research in l1 optimal control. He received his Ing. degree (~M.Sc. or Dipl.Ing.) in aerospace electrical engineering (summa cum laude) at Military Academy (now University of Defense), Brno, Czech Republic, in 1997. In the spring 1999, he was awarded Boeing Fellowship, which supported his 3-month stay at Iowa State University, Ames, USA. He was a visiting researcher at TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands, for 8 months in 2008. He was awarded Fulbright's scholarship for a visiting position at University of California, Santa Barbara, for 7 months in 2014. Currently, he gives graduate lectures on Optimal and Robust Control and undergraduate lectures on Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Systems. He supervises students, and manages research projects with academic and industrial partners. His research interests include numerical algorithms for optimal, robust and distributed control, and applications of advanced control schemes in electro-mechanical systems, (micro)robotics & microfluidics, and even intelligent transportation. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and serves the community as a Chapter Secretary of Control Systems Chapter of Czech-Slovak Section of IEEE, and as a member of the editorial board of Automa journal (and Kybernetika journal in the past). He serves as a reviewer for IEEE TAC, IEEE TCST, IFAC Automatica, IFAC Mechatronics, IFAC Control Engineering Practice and Asian Journal of Control. He attends IEEE CDC and IFAC World Congress, and occasionally IEEE MSC, ACC, MTNS, IFAC ROCOND and a few other conferences.

Email:

Address:Karlovo náměstí 13, Praha 2, Prague 2, Czech Republic, 120 00

Stjepan Bogdan of LARICS, FER, UniZg

Presentation of activities and projects currently under way at the Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, with emphasis on possible international collaboration. 

Biography:

Stjepan Bogdan, Ph.D. is a Full Professor at the Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems (LARICS), Department on Control and Computer Engineering, University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER), where he teaches several courses in robotics and automation. His research interests include autonomous systems, aerial robotics, multi-agent systems, intelligent control systems, bio-inspired systems and discrete event systems. He spent one year as Fulbright researcher at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute, Arlington, USA, in Prof. Frank Lewis' lab.

He is a co-author of 4 books and has published more than 180 conference and journal papers. He was the Principal Investigator and a researcher on 24 national and international scientific projects. Currently, he is involved in 5 EU H2020 projects (HORSE, ENCORE, subCULTron, RoboCom++ and ACROSS) and coordinates 2 projects: NATO-SpS international project MORUS and H2020 Twinning project AeroTwin.

He served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Automation Science and Engineering. Currently, he is an Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems; International Review of Mechanical Engineering (IREME); Transactions of the Institute of Measurement & Control; Journal of Control Theory and Applications. He served as a Program Committee member of major control and robotics conferences. He was Program Chair of IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, ISIC2011, Denver, USA, General Chair of IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control, MSC2012, Dubrovnik, Croatia, and General Chair of 2018 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation. He is a member of KoREMA and IEEE senior member. He is appointed as a member of IEEE Technical Committee on Intelligent Control, representative of Croatia at European Union Control Association (EUCA), representative of Croatia in H2020 Program committee on Space and was a vice-chair of Croatian Robotics Society.

He is recipient of Bronze Plaque “Josip Lončar” (1990-achievements as a student); Silver Plaque “Josip Lončar” (1993 – exceptional Master Thesis); The Croatian Society of University Teachers's, "Best Young Scientist" award from 2000; "Science Award" (2013 – exceptional achievement in scientific research – FER Faculty Council), "Fran Bošnjaković" award (2015 – exceptional achievements in science and education – University of Zagreb).

Email:

Address:Unska 3, FER, Zagreb, Croatia, 10000