I am a researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. I received my PhD degree in cybernetics from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava in 2015. My research interests are in the areas of optimal control, robust control and optimization.
"You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers."
John J. Plomp
I believe that we can make the world a better place. A place which is sustainable, green and safe. As a researcher with my colleagues at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology we are working hard to make this dream come true. How? By developing clean, green, safe and sustainable transport systems.
As a cybernetic, I am working on optimal energy and emission management system for hybrid electric vehicles. Stability, optimality and robustness of a dynamic closed-loop system. These are the main keywords which represents my research focus.
I graduated at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. I chose Bachelor degree program Industrial Informatics. Despite the fact that I was studying in a foreign language (Slovak), I got soon among the best. I am also proud of the fact that in Master degree program Cybernetics I graduated with honors and that I received an award of the dean of the faculty. My both theses bachelor and master ones were related to power systems but the main focus was put on the theory of control. In my master thesis (Modeling and Control System of Wind Power Plants with Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant), I started dealing with non-linear systems, optimal control and with model predictive control. For this thesis I was given an award with a laudatory letter from the dean.
A gate to the world of science was my PhD study. I have been specializing in non-linear control theory, particularly in gain-scheduled controller design and its application in switched and in model predictive control. My research focused on finding a controller design approach for uncertain non-linear systems, which guarantees the closed-loop stability and the optimal controller output with considering input/output constraints, all this without online optimization and need of high-performance industrial computers. My research results were published in high imapct journas as well as presented at several conferences and symposiums all around the wolrd. A brief summary of my research results can be found also in my doctoral thesis Gain-Scheduled Controller Design. After that I defended my thesis I received an award of the rector for excellence in postgraduate study at the university.
2012-2015
Doctoral thesis: Gain-Scheduled Controller Design
Courses: 4 main courses
Projects:
Additional achievements: 4 honors/awards
2010-2012
Master thesis: Modeling and Control System of Wind Power Plants with Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant
Courses: 13 main courses
Additional education: Mind control and nonviolent communication course
Additional achievements: 4 honors/awards
2007-2010
2003-2007
Additional education: CISCO CCNA course, ECDL full course
Additional achievements: Best student award with medal of merit
2019
The course addresses the supervision of the doctoral student’s research, study and learning process and displays the close link between supervision and the pedagogy of teaching and learning. (Personal Improvement Plan)
Place: Gothenburg, Sweden
2013
Art. 23 of Act. No. 124/2006 Call. On Occupational Safety and Health Protection and on the Amendment of Certain Acts (Over 1000 V without limitation, including lighting conductors situated in class A and B premises)
Place: Bratislava, Slovakia
I have had the honor of becoming a post-doctoral researcher at the Signal processing research group at Department of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology in 2015 and continued my research as a researcher at the Mechatronics research group in 2017, and thus I got in contact with the Chalmers Area of Advance Transportation by Vinnova under FFI projects MultiMEC and VCloud II, with the Swedish Electromobility Center under project "Interdisciplinary post-doc Cluster for Future Hybrid Vehicle", which is a collaboration within three competence centers CERC, SEC and KCK. Furthermore, I also had an opportunity to cooperate with the Swedish "Energimyndigheten" under project Multi-CORE, and with VOLVO Trucks under project IMPERIUM.
I have attended also a six week full-time traineeship at Vodohospodárska Výstavba š.p. (Water Economy Building Company – Government-Owned Corporation) in 2011. Furthermore, I worked in part-time during my studies as a technician at companies ALGA and Slovenské Elektrárne a.s. (Slovenské elektrárne an Enel Group Company).
I have several laboratory course teaching, instructing, examining and supervision experiences. I have always put a great emphasis on transparency, high knowledge level and satisfaction of the students. I tried to increase the courses’ transparency by creation of an interactive instructional web page for laboratory courses, which greatly facilitated the students’ work. I introduced several open-source program tools and solvers to students in order to allow them working after the lesson at home as well. Furthermore, since 2013 I have attended all the IFAC Symphosia on Advances in Control Education in order to present my educational research results and gain new experiences in this area, too. Currently, I am working on a new robust output-feedback LQR toolbox for MatLab and Octave and my plan is to implement it in the teaching process as well.
Course: Advanced Control Theory
Number of students: 20, Department: IRC FEEIT.
Course: Modeling and Simulation Using Matlab
Number of students: 60, Department: IRC FEEIT.
In this time of thanksgiving, I want to express my appreciation for my wife, family, friends and colleagues for being so understanding and inspiring. Without them I wouldn’t be who I am today.
"Today, learning is not the accumulation of information, but the subtle set of skills involved in knowing what to do with information. It is the ability to evaluate, synthesise and apply information. The purpose of learning is not just to inform but to transform. The goal is not just to cover material but uncover ideas and feelings."
J. R. Davis & A. B. Davis (2000), Managing Your Own Learning, San Francisco, BK Publishers Inc.
"The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts."
Roopleen, Words to inspire the winner in YOU
The goal of this project is to develop control architecture and algorithms for predictive energy management, with the aim to optimize energy efficiency of hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) powertrains.
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Fuel economy is a key aspect to reduce operating costs and improve efficiency of freight traffic, thus increasing truck competitiveness. The main objective of the IMPERIUM project is to achieve fuel consumption reduction of up to 20% (diesel and urea) whilst keeping the vehicle within the legal limits for pollutant emissions.
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The main objective of the project is to develop a modularized control system using advanced, multivariable, optimal, predictive and model-based control methodology for an engine case study (including look-ahead information) with guidelines for effective application in automotive systems in an industrial context.
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The goal of the project is to develop control algorithms that reduce fuel consumption and emissions during autonomous operation in a real-world software implementation in DriveMe hybrid vehicle. Furthermore, to develop control strategies for hybrid energy management that can handle future zero-emission zones at specific geographical points.
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In the multi-department interdisciplinary post-doc cluster project we are developing a concept for a hybrid vehicle using a lean-burn spark ignited engine and NOx reducing emission after treatment system (EATS). This concept focuses on the control of the combustion engine and the effect of temperature variations in the EATS on emissions for a hybrid vehicle.
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Robust control belongs to challenging topics of control theory and practice having attained its maturity during past decades. The main objective of this project is to develop generlaized and less conservative robust controller design approaches in various control design fields such as static output feedback control, model predictive control, networked control and decentralized control.
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As the main focus of the project "Research centre for severe diseases and related complications" were chosen the diabetes problem and its complications. The main objective is to develop a discontinuous monitoring and control system for better controll of the patient's health state. The study includes 400 patients, along with DM type 1 and 2 and about 25 medical centers and several universities.
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A realistic approach to dynamic system control has to consider uncertainties of various kinds in the system model. The main objective of this project is to develop robust control theory which provides analysis and synthesis approaches and tools applicable for various kinds of processes, including multi input – multi output uncertain linear or non-lienar dynamic systems.
My related publications: [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48]
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments. My office is located at the 5th floor in the EDIT building in Johanneberg campus, in Gothenburg. I am usually avaliable by phone from Mondays to Fridays between 8:00 and 18:00. Or just drop me a line below.
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