Kristína Okienková, a PhD student at Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, visited the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering at the University of Pisa, Italy, from September 1 until November 1, 2024. Read a brief note about her experience in Pisa. The traineeship was focused on exploring methods of Read more…
On October 24, as part of the technical program of the FrontSeat Consortium Meeting, the consortium members of the project FrontSeat enjoyed a guided visit to the former automotive factory in Bochum, which has been transformed into a state-of-the-art WORLDFACTORY Start-up Center. This innovative space not only provides cutting-edge technologies Read more…
From October 21 to 25, Juraj Oravec and Juraj Holaza from STUBA visited Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) to strengthen research cooperation with Professor Martin Mönnigmann’s research group. The main research focus was on advancing model predictive control (MPC) design and integrating the developed methods into open-source software tools. Software MPT+ This Read more…
On October 23, we hosted a scientific seminar titled “From MPC Design to Code Prototype: MPT+.” The seminar was led by Juraj Oravec, an associate professor, and Juraj Holaza, a lecturer, both from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. It was organized as part of the consortium meeting for Read more…
Riccardo Bacci di Capaci (RBdC) and Marco Vaccari (MV), both Assistant Professors at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering of the University of Pisa, Italy, visited the Institute of Information Engineering, Automation and Mathematics, FCHPT STU in Bratislava from 7 to 11 October 2024. For RBdC, this was his Read more…
The 2024 FrontSeat Summer School, as part of the goals of the project FrontSeat, was organized on September 9-13, at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering of the University of Pisa, Italy, by the group of Prof. Gabriele Pannocchia. The organization was completed by the two researchers Dr. Riccardo Read more…
On the 5th of September, many of the FrontSeat’s Industry Council for Cybernetics members had a unique opportunity to meet within a larger ceremony organized at STUBA, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of founding its Institute of Automatization, Informatization, and Measurement (UAIM) at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering – one Read more…
The 8th IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC 2024), held every three years, is one of the flagship events of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). This year’s conference took place in Kyoto, Japan, from August 21 to 24, 2024. The International Program Committee curated an exciting Read more…
A week ago, german chancellor Olaf Scholz visited the labs at the Research Centre for the Engineering of Smart Product Service Systems (ZESS) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB). A week ago, german chancellor Olaf Scholz visited the labs at ZESS. Many posts and reels have covered this great event in the meantime. On a personal account, Read more…
David Müller, a Ph.D. student at the Chair of Automatic Control and Systems Theory at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), spent a month collaborating with researchers at the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava (STUBA) as part of his research. The research exchange took place as part of the Horizon Europe Project FrontSeat Read more…
