Curriculum Vitae

• 25.3.1956 born in Pilsen
• Education
• 1980 M.Eng, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering CTU Prague, specialization: automated control of technological processes
• 1984 Ph.D., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering CTU, Ph.D. thesis “Synthesis of the Optimal Robot trajectory „
• 1991 DrSc., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering CTU, thesis “Theoretical Principles of the Computational Support of the Engineering Work in the Mechanical Engineering „
• 1992 Associated Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering CTU, Assoc. Prof. Thesis “Efficient Formulation and Implementation of the Dynamic Formalisms in the Computational Mechanics”
• 1997 Prof., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering CTU, lecture “Mechatronics Perspective of the Mechanical Engineering „
• Career
• 1981 1984 internal Ph.D. study at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering CTU Prague
• 1984 Imperial College of Science and Technology in London
• 1984 1990 scientific worker at the Department of the Automatic Control, FME CTU
• 1985 1989 scientific worker at the SVÚSS institute Běchovice
• 1989 1990 Institut B Für Mechanik, Universität Stuttgart Alexandr von Humboldt scholarship
• 1990 1993 assistant at the Department of Mechanics, FME CTU
• 1992 1993 University of Connecticut, USA, Fulbright scholarship
• 1993 1997 Associated Professor at the Department of Mechanics, FME CTU
• 1997- Professor at the Department of Mechanics, FME CTU

Research Interests

• Computational Mechanics of Multibody Systems
• Control of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems, Mechatronics, Robotics
• Knowledge Based Systems for Engineering Design, AI

Teaching courses

• Mechanics I
• Mechanics II
• Mechanics III
• Mechanics of Mechanisms
• Vehicle Dynamics
• Simulation of Mechatronical Systems
• Controlled Mechanical Systems
• Mechatronics

Selected Projects

• Copernicus CIPA-CT94-0130 “Semi-Active Damping of Trucks Suspension and Its Influence on Driver and Road Loads”, 1995-1998
• Copernicus CIPA-CT94-0149 “ENCODE: Environment for Configuration Design”, 1995-1998
• Project GAČR 101/99/0729 „Redundant parallel robots and their control“, 1999-2001
• Project EU FP5 IST – CLOCKWORK „Creating Learning Organisations with Contextualised Knowledge-Rich work Artifacts“ , 2000-03
• Project GAČR 101/03/0620 „Redundant drives and measurement for hybrid machine tools“,2003-05
• Project GAAV 1QS201200506 “Redundant calibration machine for 6 DOFs”,2005-07
• Project GAČR 101/06/1462 „On-line Calibration of Flexible Structures by Redundant Measurements“,2006-08
• Project EU Marie Curie SIMVIA2 “Advanced and New Simulation Methods in Vehicle Vibro-acoustics – Scientific Analysis, Experimental Verification and Development of Methodologies for the Industrial Application.”,2006-2011