DEPARTMENT OF CYBERNETICS CTU PRAGUE, FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENG. 1 Faculty of Electrical Engineering Czech Technical University Department of Cybernetics Head Prof. Vladimír Mařík

DEPARTMENT OF CYBERNETICS CTU PRAGUE, FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENG. 2 ABOUT DEPT. OF CYBERNETICS Research cybernetics biocybernetics artificial intelligence pattern recognition computer vision mathematics to treat uncertainty mobile robotics software reliability Teaching Bc. –Cyberntetics and measurement MSc. –Cyberntetics and measurement –Biomedical Engineering. PhD. –Artificial Intelligence and Biocybernetics Personnel 68 staff members, out of it –20 teachers –35 project researchers –rest technicians, administration 53 full time PhD students

DEPARTMENT OF CYBERNETICS CTU PRAGUE, FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENG. 3 Gerstner laboratory TWO PARTS OF THE DEPT, GL and CMP Center for Machine Perception Prof. Vladimír Mařík Prof. Václav Hlaváč

DEPARTMENT OF CYBERNETICS CTU PRAGUE, FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENG. 4 MAJOR PROJECTS CAK – Center for Applied Cybernetics One of National Research Centers, LN00B096 Technology transfer to industry - 7 full time researchers - Rockwell Automation, Samsung, Toyota Spin-outs Certicon a.s., Neovision s.r.o., MIRACLE - Centre of Excellence Machine Intelligence Research And Application Center for Learning Excellence (Project of 5th Framework EU No. ICA1-CT )

DEPARTMENT OF CYBERNETICS CTU PRAGUE, FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENG. 5 MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS Basic research in multiagent systems Base Station Radio Range Border Visibility Permanent Connection Models of social behavioury sociálních znalostí Coalition and alliance formation, negotiation, cooperation Safety and confidence in multiagent systems Distributed social knowledge Meta-reasoning, community intrusion Reflexion and consciousness in multiagent systems

DEPARTMENT OF CYBERNETICS CTU PRAGUE, FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENG. 6 Agent technologies applied in industry Production planning Interplant planning Planning among enterprices Supply chain management Industrial diagnostics Communication safety in multiagent systems MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS

DEPARTMENT OF CYBERNETICS CTU PRAGUE, FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENG. 7 INTELLIGENT MOBILE ROBOTICS Sensoric data processing –Inertial sensors –Sonars and laser range finders Navigation systems for robots and humans Localization in environment, mapping Planning in group of robots

DEPARTMENT OF CYBERNETICS CTU PRAGUE, FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENG. 8 Diagnostics in industrial applications, SW testing On-line diagnostics of large systems SW design for time critical application Industrial surveillance systems INTELLIGENT MOBILE ROBOTICS Development of controllers for different robotic platforms

DEPARTMENT OF CYBERNETICS CTU PRAGUE, FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENG. 9 MACHINE LEARNING Automatic data preprocessing In relational databases Time-dependent data processing –Preprocessing, trend analysis, prediction in time series Reinforced learning and its variants –E.g. Ants communities (AntQ) Case-based reasoning –Based on similarity between cases, situations Machine learning methods used in data-mining from databases

DEPARTMENT OF CYBERNETICS CTU PRAGUE, FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENG. 10 EVOLUTION-BASED COMPUTATION Design of evolution algorithms to solve complex optimization tasks Robust algorithms for optimization techniques Seeks original solution Provides a set of solutions of different quality Simple implementation

DEPARTMENT OF CYBERNETICS CTU PRAGUE, FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENG. 11 INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS Design of information systems - Register of contents of castles GIS GOAL - Geographical Information On-line Analysis Data warehouse and data tranformations Knowledge modelling SumatraTT

DEPARTMENT OF CYBERNETICS CTU PRAGUE, FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENG. 12 BIOCYBERNETICS Applications of Artificial Intelligence methods in medicine –Machine learning –Expert systems –Neural networks –Wavelet tranformation … Processing and classification of biological signals –EEG, EKG, EOG …

DEPARTMENT OF CYBERNETICS CTU PRAGUE, FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENG. 13 BIOCYBERNETICS Controlling computer via eye movmenents Man-machine systems Influence of mental and physical load to physiological values

DEPARTMENT OF CYBERNETICS CTU PRAGUE, FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENG. 14 3D COMPUTER VISION Geomety of 3D vision Caputuring using many uncalibrated cameras Correpondence problem 3D reconstruction Precision improvement from many measurements, robustnes to outliers Range images capturing and analysis

DEPARTMENT OF CYBERNETICS CTU PRAGUE, FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENG. 15 OMNIDIRECTIONAL VISION Geometry of non-standard cameras (other than pin-hole) Calibration of wide viewing angle lenses 3D reconstruction from wide- baseline images Image-based rendering Mobile robot navigation using omnidirectional sensors

DEPARTMENT OF CYBERNETICS CTU PRAGUE, FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENG. 16 RECOGNITION IN IMAGES Detection and recognition of human faces, traffic signs, car number plates,... Indexing and searching in image databases Correspondence of regions in images Tracing objects in videosequences

DEPARTMENT OF CYBERNETICS CTU PRAGUE, FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENG. 17 MATHEMATICS OF UNCERTAINTY Fuzzy logic Fuzzy control Quantum logic for artificial intelligence systems Probability of fuzzy and quantum phenomena Applications in pattern recognition and decision making