prof. Pedro Rodriguez-Ayerbe from , France, will give a seminar on "Explicit robustness margins for discrete-time linear systems with PWA control" on Friday, October 24, 2014 at 11:00 in room no. 641.

We would like to invite you to 20th International trade fair of electrical engineering, electronics, energy and telecommunications ELOSYS 2014, which will be organized between 14th and 17th October 2014 in the exhibition area EXPO CENTER Trencin.

The expo is from 14th to 17th October but exact date is:

• Students PIRS on Thursday as scheduled below.
  
• TAP students on Friday. Students will be governed by their internal agreement with Ing. Jakub Bendžalom.

We participated at IFAC World Congress (August 25-29, Cape Town, South Africa). The institute was presented with five contributions:

1. Holaza, J. – Takács, B. – Kvasnica, M.: Verification of Performance Bounds for A-Posteriori Quantized Explicit MPC Feedback Laws.
2. Jelemenský, M. – Paulen, R. – Fikar, M. – Kovacs, Z.: Time-optimal Diafiltration in the Presence of Membrane Fouling.
3. Kalúz, M. – Čirka, Ľ. – Valo, R. – Fikar, M.: ArPi Lab: A Low-cost Remote Laboratory for Control Education.
4. Klaučo, M. – Drgoňa, J. – Kvasnica, M. – Di Cairano, S.: Building Temperature Control by Simple MPC-like Feedback Laws Learned from Closed-Loop Data.
5. Števek, J. – Kvasnica, M. – Fikar, M. – Vrbický, A.: An Application of Multi-parametric Programming in Integrated Circuit Automation (Slotting Problem).

Three PhD defenses will take place on Thursday, August 21st, 2014 in room no. 641:

• 9:00 Ing. Martin Kalúz: Multipurpose and low-cost architectures for automatic control remote laboratories
• 10:00 Ing. Juraj Oravec: Robust model predictive control
• 11:00 Ing. Alexander Szucs: Algorithms for process modelling and fast model predictive control

We participated at 2014 European Control Conference (June 25-27, Strasbourg). Martin Klaučo presented a lecture: Mixed-Integer SOCP Formulation of the Path Planning Problem for Heterogeneous Multi-Vehicle Systems (Klaučo, Blažek, Kvasnica, Fikar). Moreover, Michal Kvasnica represented Slovakia in meeting of the European Union Control Association.

Juraj Oravec will give a seminar on "Robust Model Predictive Control" on Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at 13:00 in room no. 641.

Martin Kalúz will give a seminar on "Multipurpose and Low-Cost Architectures for Automatic Control Remote Laboratories" on Wednesday, July 9, 2014 at 13:00 in room no. 641.