Cybernetics in Material Science - Pavel Václavek

Research areas

• Smart sensors and signal processing, sensors design using new materials
• Advanced control technologies, electrical actuators control
• Mobile robotic systems, reconnaissance robotics, telepresence
• Embedded systems and communication technologies

Main objectives

• Development of novel sensors, control and communication technologies
• Development of advanced reconnaissance mobile robotic system equipped with novel chemical, biological and nuclear sensors
• Application of new materials and technologies in sensors, actuators and robotic systems
• Development of control systems and instrumentation for research and production of new materials

Content of research

Advanced control, sensors and communication technologies are key components of many industrial systems. Current progress in development of these technologies enables new possibilities of practical applications of new results of other research fields including advanced materials.

Research of advanced control technologies is aimed to energy optimal, safe and reliable control of robotics systems and technological processes. Special attention is paid to advanced control of electrical drives with applications in precise servo-drives in robotics, technological processes, actuators and ecological transportation systems. In the sensors field the research deals with the development of special smart sensors and power harvesting devices. The main goal is the application of advanced materials and new methods of signal processing, especially for data fusion, signal processing of sensor arrays, autocalibration and autodiagnostics. Special attention is paid to acoustic and vibration sensors and acoustic emission transducers. Interests in embedded systems include development of communication interfaces for special instrumentation including smart sensors and actuators; the design of new solutions for distributed data acquisition and data fusion; the development of special electronics for technological processes. Reconnaissance mobile robotic systems for special environments are being developed. The systems are to work in hazardous environments, such as areas with chemical, nuclear and biological contamination. Due to the nature of these environmental conditions, the systems use special materials to be able to withstand massive contamination, decontamination processes, and to decrease their detectability. Smart sensors are used on-board the robots to enhance their functionality.

 

Selected projects of the group:

• H2020 ECSEL 3Ccar - Integrated Components for Complexity Control in affordable electrified cars
• H2020 OSEM-EV - Optimised and Systematic Energy Management in Electric Vehicles
• FP7 ARTEMIS EMC² - Embedded Multi-Core systems for Mixed Criticality applications in dynamic and changeable real-time environments
• FP7 ENIAC IDEAS - Interactive Power Devices for Efficiency in Automotive with Increased Reliability and Safety
• FP7 ARTEMIS ACCUS - Adaptive Cooperative Control of Urban Systems
• FP7 ARTEMIS IoE - Internet of Energy for Electric Mobility
• FP7 ARTEMIS POLLUX - Process Oriented Electrical Control Units for Electrical Vehicles Developed on a multi-system real-time embedded platform

 

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2017

• DIBLIK, J, 2017:Integral criteria for the existence of positive solutions of first-order linear differential advanced-argument equations. APPLIED MATHEMATICS LETTERS 63 , p. 40 - 45.
• DOKOUPIL, J; VODA, A; VACLAVEK, P, 2017:Regularized Extended Estimation With Stabilized Exponential Forgetting. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL 62 (12), p. 6513 - 6520.
• KUDR, J; ZITKA, O; KLIMANEK, M; VRBA, R; ADAM, V, 2017:Microfluidic electrochemical devices for pollution analysis-A review. SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL 246 , p. 578 - 590.
• REBENDA, J; SMARDA, Z, 2017:A differential transformation approach for solving functional differential equations with multiple delays. COMMUNICATIONS IN NONLINEAR SCIENCE AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION 48 , p. 246 - 257.

2016

• DIBLIK, J; KHUSAINOV, DY; BASTINEC, J; SIRENKO, AS, 2016:Exponential stability of linear discrete systems with constant coefficients and single delay. APPLIED MATHEMATICS LETTERS 51 , p. 68 - 73.
• FIALKA, J; BENES, P; MICHLOVSKA, L; KLUSACEK, S; PIKULA, S; DOHNAL, P; HAVRANEK, Z, 2016:Measurement of thermal depolarization effects in piezoelectric coefficients of soft PZT ceramics via the frequency and direct methods. JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY 36 (11), p. 2727 - 2738.
• JELINEK, A; ZALUD, L, 2016:Augmented Postprocessing of the FTLS Vectorization Algorithm Approaching to the Globally Optimal Vectorization of the Sorted Point Clouds. ICINCO: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATICS IN CONTROL, AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS, VOL 2 , p. 216 - 223.
• KVAC, M; HAVRDOVA, N; HLASKOVA, L; DANKOVA, T; KANDERA, J; JEZKOVA, J; VITOVEC, J; SAK, B; ORTEGA, Y; XIAO, LH; MODRY, D; CHELLADURAI, JRJJ; PRANTLOVA, V; MCEVOY, J, 2016:Cryptosporidium proliferans n. sp (Apicomplexa: Cryptosporidiidae): Molecular and Biological Evidence of Cryptic Species within Gastric Cryptosporidium of Mammals. PLOS ONE 11 (1)
• MYNAR, Z; VESELY, L; VACLAVEK, P, 2016:PMSM Model Predictive Control With Field-Weakening Implementation. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS 63 (8), p. 5156 - 5166.
• ZALUD, L; KOTOVA, M; KOCMANOVA, P; DOBSAK, P; KOLAROVA, J, 2016:Breath Analysis Using a Time-of-Flight Camera and Pressure Belts. ARTIFICIAL ORGANS 40 (6), p. 619 - 626.

2015

• DIBLIK, J, 2015:Explicit integral criteria for the existence of positive solutions of the linear delayed equation (x)over dot(t) = -c(t)x(t-tau(t)). ADVANCES IN MATHEMATICS 280 , p. 1 - 20.
• CHROMY, A; ZALUD, L; DOBSAK, P; SUSKEVIC, I; MRKVICOVA, V, 2015:Limb volume measurements: comparison of accuracy and decisive parameters of the most used present methods. SPRINGERPLUS 4
• KOCMANOVA, P; ZALUD, L, 2015:Multispectral Stereoscopic Robotic Head Calibration and Evaluation. MODELLING AND SIMULATION FOR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS, MESAS 2015 9055 , p. 173 - 184.
• NEJDL, L; KUDR, J; RUTTKAY-NEDECKY, B; HEGER, Z; ZIMA, L; ZALUD, L; KRIZKOVA, S; ADAM, V; VACULOVICOVA, M; KIZEK, R, 2015:Remote-Controlled Robotic Platform for Electrochemical Determination of Water Contaminated by Heavy Metal Ions. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTROCHEMICAL SCIENCE 10 (4), p. 3635 - 3643.
• REBENDA, J; SMARDA, Z, 2015:Convergence analysis of an iterative scheme for solving initial value problem for multidimensional partial differential equations. COMPUTERS & MATHEMATICS WITH APPLICATIONS 70 (8), p. 1772 - 1780.
• ZALUD, L; KOCMANOVA, P; BURIAN, F; JILEK, T; KALVODA, P; KOPECNY, L, 2015:Calibration and Evaluation of Parameters in A 3D Proximity Rotating Scanner. ELEKTRONIKA IR ELEKTROTECHNIKA 21 (1), p. 3 - 12.

2014

• DIBLIK, J; VITOVEC, J, 2014:Asymptotic behavior of solutions of systems of dynamic equations on time scales in a set whose boundary is a combination of strict egress and strict ingress points. APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION 238 , p. 289 - 299.
• CHROMY, A; ZALUD, L, 2014:Robotic 3D scanner as an alternative to standard modalities of medical imaging. SPRINGERPLUS 3
• VITOVEC, J, 2014:Critical oscillation constant for Euler-type dynamic equations on time scales. APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION 243 , p. 838 - 848.
• ZALUD, L; KOCMANOVA, P; BURIAN, F; JILEK, T, 2014:Color and Thermal Image Fusion for Augmented Reality in Rescue Robotics. 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTIC, VISION, SIGNAL PROCESSING & POWER APPLICATIONS: INNOVATION EXCELLENCE TOWARDS HUMANISTIC TECHNOLOGY 291 , p. 47 - 55.

2013

• DIBLIK, J; REBENDA, J; SMARDA, Z, 2013:Singular Initial Value Problem for Certain Classes of Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations. ABSTRACT AND APPLIED ANALYSIS
• DIBLIK, J; VITOVEC, J, 2013:Lower and upper estimates of solutions to systems of delay dynamic equations on time scales. BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS , p. 1 - 14.
• FIALKA, J; BENES, P, 2013:Comparison of Methods for the Measurement of Piezoelectric Coefficients. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT 62 (5), p. 1047 - 1057.
• REBENDA, J; SMARDA, Z, 2013:Stability and asymptotic properties of a system of functional differential equations with nonconstant delays. APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION 219 (12), p. 6622 - 6632.
• REBENDA, J; SMARDA, Z, 2013:Stability of a Functional Differential System with a Finite Number of Delays. ABSTRACT AND APPLIED ANALYSIS 2013 (Article ID 85313), p. 1 - 11.
• VACLAVEK, P; BLAHA, P; HERMAN, I, 2013:AC Drive Observability Analysis. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS 60 (8), p. 3047 - 3059.

2012

• BURIAN, F; ZALUD, L; FLORIAN, T; JILCK, T, 2012:Unified Storage for Laser Scanner Data. 11TH IFAC/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROGRAMMABLE DEVICES AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (PDES 2012)
• DOSPIVOVA, D; HYNEK, D; KOPEL, P; BEZDEKOVA, A; SOCHOR, J; KRIZKOVA, S; ADAM, V; TRNKOVA, L; HUBALEK, J; BABULA, P; PROVAZNIK, I; VRBA, R; KIZEK, R, 2012:Electrochemical Behaviour of Apoferritin Encapsulating of Silver(I) Ions and Its Application for Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTROCHEMICAL SCIENCE 7 (7), p. 6378 - 6395.
• FLORIAN, T; BURIAN, F; ZALUD, L, 2012:Small Exploration Robot Accessories. 11TH IFAC/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROGRAMMABLE DEVICES AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (PDES 2012)
• HAVRANEK, Z., KLUSACEK, S., 2012:Experimental evaluation of methods for estimation of regularization in acoustic holography with MEMS sensor array. Inter-noise 2012 , p. 1 - 6.
• HYNEK, D; KREJCOVA, L; SOCHOR, J; CERNEI, N; KYNICKY, J; ADAM, V; TRNKOVA, L; HUBALEK, J; VRBA, R; KIZEK, R, 2012:Study of Interactions between Cysteine and Cadmium(II) Ions using Automatic Pipetting System off-line Coupled with Electrochemical Analyser Dedicated United Nation Environment Program: Lead and Cadmium Initiatives. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTROCHEMICAL SCIENCE 7 (3), p. 1802 - 1819.
• KREMPLOVA, M; KREJCOVA, L; HYNEK, D; BARATH, P; MAJZLIK, P; HORAK, V; ADAM, V; SOCHOR, J; CERNEI, N; HUBALEK, J; VRBA, R; KIZEK, R, 2012:Automated Electrochemical Detection of Iron Ions in Erythrocytes from MeLiM Minipigs Suffering from Melanoma. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTROCHEMICAL SCIENCE 7 (7), p. 5893 - 5909.

GRANTY

• Optimised and Systematic Energy Management in Electric Vehicles (653514), H2020 - Societal challenges - Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy, 2015 - 2016
• Integrated Components for Complexity Control in affordable electrified cars (662192), H2020 - Industrial leadership - ECSEL Joint Undertaking, 2015 - 2018
• Capacitive pressure sensors using both ceramic and metal-ceramic (TH01011212), EPSILON, 2015 - 2018
• A system for automatic / automated detection / radiation monitoring and location of hot zones, based on intelligent multifunctional detector head applicable to stationary and mobile platforms incl. unattended. (TH01020862), EPSILON, 2015 - 2017
• Building up cooperation in R&D with the Research and Industrial Partners (Research4Industry) (CZ.1.07/2.4.00/17.0006), MEYS - OP Education for Competiteveness, 2011 - 2014
• Nanoelectronics for electric vehicle intelligent failsafe power train (270693), FP7 - Joint Technology Initiative, 2011 - 2014
• Cabin noise reduction by experimental and numerical design optimization (30814), FP6, 2006 - 2009
• ARTEMIS IOE – Internet of energy for electric mobility (269374), FP7 - Joint Technology Initiative, 2011 - 2014
• Process oriented electrical control units for electrical vehicles developed on a multi-system real-time embedded platform (7H10005), FP7 - Joint Technology Initiative, 2010 - 2013

KEY RESEARCH EQUIPMENT

The Electrical Drives Laboratory is equipped with a 5kVA 3-ph arbitrary waveform programmable power supply; DC to 3GHz spectrum analyser; 6-channel wattmeter; 1 GHz Mixed Signal Oscilloscope Tektronix MSO4104B – design and performance assessment of advanced control algorithms and systems for small AC drives; software for the simulation of dynamic and discrete event systems, design and validation of advanced control algorithms.

The Laboratory of Sensors and Measurement is equipped with a microphone array and a set of acoustic sensors for acoustic holography for noise source identification; PXI multichannel measuring equipment for signal processing and data acquisition; and a Precision laser vibrometer and climatic test chamber for sensor calibration and testing.

The Laboratory of Telepresence and Mobile Robotics is equipped to be able to develop small and mid-sized mobile robot prototypes, as well as do research in reconnaissance robotics, mapping and navigation, telepresence, and special sensor applications. The key equipment includes various 2D and 3D optical scanners: Velodyne HDL-64E, Velodyne HDL-32E, Swissranger SR4000, SICK 2D lidars; an iMAR iTraceRT-F400-E high performance INS/GNSS with FOG and RTK; 3x Trimble BX982 RTK GNSS – 1x Base station, 2x rover; Thermal imagers, CCD cameras; and an EPSON C3 industrial manipulator.

The Laboratory of Special Electronics and Commuications is equipped with a Digital Signal Analyzer – 8 GHz, 40 GSa/s, 4 Ch, 50M memory; an Infiniium MSO – 1 GHz, 10/20 GSa/s, 4+16 Ch; a Probe Amplifier – InfiniiMax II, 10 GHz; a 2-Channel 30 MHz Function/Arbitrary Waveform Generator; an MXA Signal Analyzer; a PXA Signal Analyzer; an ENA Series Network analyzer; and a 3.35 GHz 1-channel Pulse-/ Pattern Generator.

CURRENT RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE

Electrical drive laboratory equipped with a 5kVA 3-ph arbitrary waveform programmable power supply, DC to 3GHz spectrum analyser, 6-channel wattmeter – design and performance assessment of advanced control algorithms and systems for small AC drives; software for the simulation of dynamical and discrete event systems, design and validation of advanced control algorithms.