On November 21, we hosted a scientific seminar at Ruhr University Bochum titled “Multi-Model Predictive Control of a Chemical Reactor”. The seminar was led by Miroslav Fikar, a professor at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. It was organized in the “Research Seminar on Smart Cybernetics” series with a Read more…
On October 24-25, the FrontSeat project Consortium Meeting took place at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) located in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The Consortium Meeting offered a comprehensive program that greatly enriched the experience for all members. The agenda featured a diverse array of presentations, interactive discussions, scientific session, and Read more…
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…
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…
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…
On October 4, we organized a scientific seminar on “Use of Neural Ordinary Differential Equations for Reduced Order Modeling: A Case Study“. Ján Boldocký, a PhD student at Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, led the seminar, which was organized in the framework of the FrontSeat project as part of 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…
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…
Nora Lindner, a PhD student at Ruhr University Bochum, visited the Institute of Information Engineering, Automation, and Mathematics (STUBA) from June 6 until July 12, 2024. Read a blog written by Nora about her experience in Bratislava. In June, I had the opportunity to visit the Institute of Information Engineering, Read more…
The 12th IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM 2024) was held in Toronto from July 14 to 17, 2024. The International Program Committee has prepared an exciting scientific program that explores recent advances in the control of chemical, biochemical, and related process systems. Both academic and industrial Read more…
