ROBOPROX Plenary Meeting 2025 in Ostrava

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ROBOPROX Plenary Meeting 2025 in Ostrava

5-6 March 2025 | VŠB-TUO Ostrava

We were pleased to welcome over 60 researchers and collaborators from all research areas and partner institutions. The event brought together principal investigators, research group leaders, and junior researchers to share progress, foster cooperation, and strengthen interdisciplinary connections across the ROBOPROX project.

The meeting opened with welcome speeches by Zdeněk Hanzálek, Principal Investigator of ROBOPROX, and Václav Snášel, Rector of VŠB-TUO. A guided campus tour and joint dinner on the first day provided informal networking opportunities before the full-day program of expert presentations and discussion on 6 March.

The annual plenary meeting of the ROBOPROX project: Robotics and Advanced Industrial Production (reg. no. CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004590)

detailed information

Day 1 – Wednesday 5 March 2025

16:00–17:00University Campus Tour / Excursion
Visit to IT4INNOVATIONS National Supercomputing Centre (Studentska 6231/1b, 708 00 Ostrava – map here)
18:00Dinner at Stračena Pub Ostrava-Poruba (Pavlouskova 4457/24, 708 00 Ostrava – map here)
Enjoy a joint dinner with fellow participants, an excellent opportunity to network and discuss the upcoming meeting sessions.
Particiants are kindly asked to cover their own dinner expenses.

DAY 2 – Thursday 6 March 2025 at VŠB-TUO, Nova aula UA 178 – 17. listopadu, 708 00 Ostrava 8

9:00–9:15Introduction and Welcome
Welcome address by Zdeněk Hanzálek, Principal Investigator of ROBOPROX
Host welcome by Václav Snášel, Rector of VŠB-TUO
9:15–10:15Important to Know
10:15–10:40RA1 Control of distributed-parameter systems and complex robotic structures – prof. Ing. Tomáš Vyhlídal (25 min) (Slides in PDF | Video recording part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4)
– Optimal control of interconnected time-delay systems
– Extending the system decoupling method 
– Control and vibration suppression of light robotic structures
– Algorithms for industrial control
– Estimation and filtering 
– Advanced manufacturing
10:40–10:50RA2 Control for modular systems, structures, and materials  – doc. Kristian Hengster-Movric, Ph.D. (10 min) (Slides in PDF | Video recording)
– Methodology for collaborative assembly of modular structures
– Methodology for control of assembled modular structures

10:50–11:00 Coffee Break

11:00–11:10RA3 Convex relaxations for non-convex problems in materials and industrial design – Stephan Weis, Dr. rer. nat. (10 min) (Slides in PDF | Video recording)
– No relaxation gap in the moment-SOS hierarchy
– Better scalability of the moment-SOS hierarchy
11:10–11:30RA4 Computer-aided design, simulation and manufacturing of (modular) materials, mechanisms, and structures – prof. Ing. Jan Zeman (20 min) (Slides in PDF | Video recording)
– Simulations
– Optimal design
– Manufacturing and validation
11:30–11:45RA5 Automation for nanoscale surface engineering – prof. Ing. Tomáš Polcar (15 min) (Slides in PDF | Video recording)
– Robotic magnetron sputtering
– Automated nanoscale tribology
– Design and manipulation of 2D materials
11:45–11:55RA6 Advanced robot autonomy – RNDr. Miroslav Kulich, Ph.D. (10 min) (Slides in PDF | Video recording)
– Robot workspace modelling, robot under uncertainty
– Perception-based navigation using embedded workspace features
– Long-term autonomy, fault detection and recovery
11:55–12:15RA7 Human-machine collaboration – prof. Dr. Ing. Robert Babuška (20 min) (Slides in PDF | Video recording part 1, part 2)
– Modular knowledge-enabled architecture for HRC 
– Interactive skill and task specification, learning 
– Planning, scheduling and execution of tasks in the HRC workspace
– Interactive perception
– Application to a robotic system for radiation detection

12:15–13:15 Lunch Break

13:15–13:25RA8 Cooperative aerial robots for advanced industrial production – Ing. Robert Pěnička, Ph.D. (10 min) (Slides in PDF | Video recording)
– Topological multi-modal mapping and cooperative localization
– Trajectory and high-level mission planning for agile multi-robot flight
13:25–13:35RA9 Resilient machines through continuous learning and sensing – doc. Ing. Karel Zimmermann, Ph.D. (10 min) (Slides in PDF | Video recording)
– End-to-end learning with explainability
– Versatile, resilient robots through distributed reactive control and whole-body tactile sensing
13:35–13:45RA10 Robotic routing in dynamic industrial environment with human presence – doc. Ing. Tomáš Krajník, Ph.D. (10 min) (Slides in PDF | Video recording)
– Robotic routing solvers with solution quality estimates
– Data collection planning in spatiotemporal fields
13:45–14:10RA11 Scheduling, discrete optimization and decision-making – prof. Dr. Ing. Zdeněk Hanzálek (25 min) (Slides in PDF | Video recording)
– High-performance algorithms for the novel extensions of production scheduling problems
– Uncertainty and machine learning in discrete optimization 
– Effective decision-making for long-term autonomy
– Metaheuristic methods application for large-scale, high-dimensional data 
– Optimization of energy consumption and production
14:10–14:30RA12 Scalable formal methods in robotics and production  – Mgr. Mikoláš Janota, Ph.D. (20 min) (Slides in PDF | Video recording)
– Scalable symbolic execution through bounded model checking
– Automated reasoning for industrial applications
– Reasoning about configurable systems
– Graphs, parameters, and optimization for agents
14:30–14:45RA13 Complex systems for flexible production – doc. Ing. Petr Kadera (15 min) (Slides in PDF)
– Modularization of production systems
– Quality control in flexible manufacturing systems
– Products, production systems, and devices

14:45–14:55 Closing Remarks

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