Institute of Information Theory and Automation

Department of Control Theory

Logo of ACT Head of the Department:
Sergej Čelikovský

Deputy head of the Department:
Petra Šindelářová

Secretary:
Miroslava Součková

phone: +420 266 052 385
fax: +420 286 890 286
www: http://tr.utia.cas.cz/
staff: people, Ph.D. students
List of publications, courses, projects

The research in linear control theory has a long tradition at the Institute. In early 1960s, under the guidance of Professor Strejc, researchers at the Institute made considerable developments in both transfer-function and state-space methods. In the 1970s and the 1980s, the members of the Department, led by Professor Kučera, achieved significant results, which launched an entirely new area of research worldwide. Among these are the parametrization of all controllers stabilizing a given plant (known as the Youla-Kučera parametrization) and the design of control systems via polynomial equations. In the 1990s, the research activities of the department ranged from robust control to nonlinear systems.

Applied research in the department focuses on numerical methods for control-system simulation and design, which yields various original software packages for control and simulation. The current research objectives in the Department of Control Theory, which has been led by Sergej Čelikovský since 2004, are the analysis and design of control systems on the one hand and the topological study of dynamical systems on the other. The four main research directions are:

  • Analysis and design of linear systems including robust control.
  • Numerical methods for control systems analysis and design including chaotic systems.
  • Analysis and design of nonlinear control systems.
  • Topological dynamics and dynamical systems on surfaces and manifolds.
Interest is focused on both theoretical studies and computer implementation of the results obtained.

 

Last events:



Professor Vladimír Kučera was awarded the Gold Felber medal of the Czech Technical University in 2006.

In 2006, Professor Vladimír Kučera was awarded the prestigious medal Chevalier dans ľordre des Palmes Académiques established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1808. See the ceremony picture.

The 16th IFAC World Congress 2005 in Prague was co-organized by the Department of Control Theory. The congress is held every three years and is considered the flagship event of the IFAC Federation. The 16th IFAC World Congress took place in the Prague Congress Center between July 3rd and July 8th, 2005. With an attendance of almost two and half thousand participants from 63 countries, this was definitely the largest and most successful event in automatic control ever.

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Last modification: 23.11.2009
Institute of Information Theory and Automation