Together with our colleagues from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) and EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland), we are excited to share our latest research paper published in one of the most prestigious international journal IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control:

Yuning Jiang - Kristína Fedorová - Roland Schwan - Juraj Oravec - Colin N. Jones:
Distributed Real-Time Cooperative Model Predictive Control

The paper presents a novel method for reliable real-time optimal control, enabling incredibly fast evaluation of control action. The proposed method outperforms other relevant approaches in terms of runtimes/accuracy.

On January 23, 2026, long-time member and head of the department, Prof. Ing. Ján Mikleš, DrSc., passed away at the age of 87. The funeral will take place on Monday, February 9, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. in the ceremonial hall of the crematorium in Bratislava. May he rest in peace.

We invite you to a lecture and workshop entitled: Large Language Models in Chemical Engineering Education (Fiammetta Caccavale, Technical University of Denmark), which will take place on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. in the FCHPT library (2nd floor).

On Wednesday, October 22, our colleagues were invited to present the results of their research at a scientific seminar at the Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT).
The event was organized and chaired by Assoc. Prof. Ing. Martin Hromčík, Ph.D., from the Department of Control Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering.
Assoc. Prof. Ing. Juraj Oravec, PhD. delivered a lecture titled:
Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities in Tube Model Predictive Control.
Ing. Sofiia Serhiienko presented her lecture on:
Scalable Tube MPC Design.
This participation contributed to strengthening international scientific cooperation and promoting the scientific research carried out at the Institute of Information Engineering, Automation, and Mathematics (IAM), FCHPT STU in Bratislava.

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Check out the latest FrontSeat Newsletter and stay up to date with the recent achievements and inspiring activities of the Horizon Europe project FrontSeat. Discover how STU is advancing excellence in scientific research in automation and cybernetics through dynamic collaboration with Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) and the University of Pisa (Italy).

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Krister Forsman, Perstorp Group (Sweden), NTNU (Norway)

We give some concrete examples of how concepts from multivariable control can be applied in the chemical industry. All examples are using “elementary” concepts, such as cascade control, ratio control, feedforward etc. Furthermore we discuss some aspects of PID-controller tuning not often mentioned in textbooks.

Slovnaft, a.s. is looking for filling the position Machine Learning Engineer suitable for our graduates. For more info see the link.

Actemium Slovakia (ProCS) in Šaľa is looking for employees for the following positions suitable for our graduates:

• MaR Engineer
• Senior MaR
• Junior SW Engineer/Application Engineer

See the link below or the company's LinkedIn page

On Thursday, August 21, Dr. Kristína Fedorová defended her PhD thesis on "Structure-Exploiting Model Predictive Control for Real-Time and Embedded Applications", supervised by Prof. Michal Kvasnica. Dr. Roman Kohút defended his PhD thesis on "Enhancing Energy Efficiency: Advanced Forecasting Algorithms for Energy Management Systems", supervised by Prof. Michal Kvasnica. Congratulations!

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Full papers from 14th IFAC Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, including Biosystems  (Bratislava, Slovakia, 16-19 June 2025) have been published at IFAC-PapersOnLine