We are proud to announce that Dr. Lenka Galčíková, from the Institute of Information Engineering, Automation, and Mathematics (IAM) at the Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology (FCHPT STU), has been honored with the prestigious Student Personality of Slovakia award for the academic year 2023/2024.

We are pleased to announce that the Industrial Council, initiated through the FrontSeat project, will be transformed into the Industrial Council of Cybernetics at STU, continuing its impactful work beyond the project’s conclusion. Read more here.

Theory of Automatic Control I and III
8.1.2025 8.00-11.00, 601
13.1.2025 8.00-11.00, 601
15.1.2025 8.00-11.00, 601

Watch now for the key updates from Prof. Miroslav Fikar, coordinator of the project FrontSeat, and get in touch with all of the interesting activities realized within the Horizon Europe project. This project aims to increase the excellence of scientific research at STU, supervised by the universities RUB Bochum in Germany and the University of Pisa in Italy. The fourth volume of our newsletter is now available online - subscribe here to stay informed.

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On Tuesday, October 1, 2924, a guest lecture from industry will be given at 10:00 a.m. in room 601 for engineering students in the course "Automatic Control Theory 3". The topic is Cybersecurity in industrial applications and the lecturer will be Ing. Marián Filka from Siemens.

Main topics:

• NIS2 new requirements for cybersecurity in industry. Basic overview of EU legislative requirements.
• Practical implementation examples and case studies based on Siemens solutions.

NIS2 link: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/sk/policies/nis2-directive

On Friday, August 16, Dr. Lenka Galčíková defended her PhD thesis on "Linear Model Predictive Control Design for Complex Systems" supervised by Assoc. Prof. Juraj Oravec. Congratulations!

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The graduation ceremonies for bachelor's degree graduates at FCHPT STU took place on Thursday, July 4, 2024.

Among the graduates of bachelor's studies at IAM, the following participated in the graduation ceremony: Bc. Michaela Belušková, B.Sc. Ivana Dukayová, Bc. Jakub Gaborčík and Bc. Marek Horecký.

Congratulations to all, and we wish you many more success!

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On Wednesday, June 26, 2024, the Chemical Fair – CHEMSHOW 2024 took place at the Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology (FCHPT). 

High school students had the opportunity to learn about the use of artificial intelligence in preventing industrial disasters in a lecture by Assoc. Prof. Martin Klaučo, PhD.

At our booth, visitors could try hands-on control, and students also toured our laboratories, where the intelligent greenhouse VESNA and the industrial automation laboratory garnered significant interest.

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On June 25, the Association of the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry of the Slovak Republic (ZCHFP SR), as one of the founding members of the Slovak Center for Digital Innovations (SCDI), organized the seminar on "Digitization in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry". At the seminar, also the young scientist from IAM delivered their talks:
Ing. Rastislav Fáber: Revealing industrial information hidden in data,
Assoc. Prof. Juraj Oravec: Advanced model predictive control for industrial plants,
Dr. Peter Bakaráč: Integrating IoT into the industrial environment: Potential, applications and use of soft sensors.

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We are authors of a new article in the prestigious international scientific Journal of Process Control:

Lenka Galčíková - Juraj Oravec: Self-tunable approximated explicit MPC: Heat exchanger implementation and analysis

The paper investigates the possibilities of effective autonomous decision-making rules in the self-tuning of an approximated optimal controller designed for energy-intensive plants.