Zdeněk Hurák assistant professor at Department of Control Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. researcher at Division of Automatic Control, Center for Applied Cybernetics, FEE, CTU

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Education

• MSc - in aviation electrical engineering with major in Missile Guidance and Automatic Control, Department of Aviation Electrical Engineering, Air Force Faculty, Military Academy in Brno, passed With Honour, July 1997.
• PhD - in control engineering, Department of Control Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, September 2004. Thesis on l₁-optimal control supervised by Prof. Michael Sebek.

Services to the professional community

• Chair of Control Systems Chapter of Czechoslovak Section of IEEE
• Member of the Editorial Board of Kybernetika journal

Current research interests

• robust control (parametric uncertainties, l1, H2, Hinfinity),
• control-oriented numerical algorithms for polynomial matrices,
• posicast control and input command shaping
• control design for spatially distributed systems
• applications of advanced control design methods in microsystems: piezoelectric actuators, noncontact manipulation using dielectrophoresis.

Industrial projects

• Design and implementation of a control system for line-of-sight gyro-stabilized airborne platform. Contractor: Czech Air Force Technical Institute.
• Modelling, identification and controller design for a piezoelectric nanopositioning stage for a transmission electron microscope (TEM). Contractor: Delong Instruments, Inc., Brno, Czech Republic.
• Robust controller design for a Very Large Telescope (VLT) - in collaboration with European Southern Observatory (ESO)
• Reliability analysis of the PLAMEN fire control system for the L-159 light combat aircraft (FMEA, FMECA, FTA, Simulations, MIL-HDBK-217). Contractor: AEV, Ltd., Kromeriz, Czech Republic

Scholarships and long-term stays

• Boeing research fellow'99 at International Institute of Theoretical and Applied Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, USA. March through June 1999.
• Visiting scholar'02 at LAAS CNRS, Toulouse, France. French-Czech BARANDE project. July 2002.
• Visiting scholar'03 at NAIST, Nara, Japan. Japanese COE (Center of Excellence) project. February 2003.
• Sabbatical with Micro and Nano Scale Engineering group, Mech. Eng. Dept., Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, May through December 2008

Awards:

• Best paper at international student conference POSTER 2001, Prague, May 2001 (Czech Airlines prize)

Publications

• Journals

  Hurák, Z., Hromčík, M. and Špiller, M. Minimization of l2 norm of the error signal in posicast input command shaping: a polynomial approach. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Volume 17, Issue 8 , Pages 706-719. [Wiley link]

  Hurák, Z., B\"{o}ttcher, A., Šebek, M. Minimum distance to the range of a lower triangular Toeplitz operator in l1 norm and application in l1 optimal control. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 107-122, 2006. [SIAM link]

  Hurák, Z. Discussion on: "On frequency weighted balanced truncation: Hankel singular values and error bounds" by T. Van Gestel, B. de Moor, B.D.O. Anderson and P. Van Overschee. European Journal of Control, Vol. 7, Number 6, 2001.

• Conference papers

  Hurák, Z., B\"{o}ttcher, A. MIMO $\ell_{1}$-Optimal Control via Block Toeplitz Operators. In Proceedings of 16th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems(MTNS'04), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, July 5-9, 2004.

  Erm, T., Hurák, Z., Bauvir, B. Time to go $\mathcal{H}_{\infty}$? In Proceedings of SPIE International Symposium Astronomical Telescopes, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 21-25, 2004.

  Henrion, D., Šebek, M., Hurák, Z. Fixed-order robust controller design with the Polynomial Toolbox 3.0. In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Control Applications and Computer Aided Control Systems Design (CCA/CACSD'04), Taipei, Taiwan, September 2-4, 2004.

  Hurák, Z., Šebek, M. Algebraic approach to l1 optimal control: SISO case. In Proceedings of IFAC Symposium on Robust Control ROCOND'03, Milan, Italy, June 2003.

  Hurák, Z., Hromčík, M., Šebek, M. On computing the l1 norm of a polynomial matrix fraction, IEEE conference CACSD 2002, Glasgow, UK, September 18-20, 2002.

  Hornych, R., Hurák, Z., Šebek, M. MathML in Polynomial Toolbox for Matlab, IEEE conference CACSD 2002, Glasgow, UK, September 18-20, 2002.

  Hromčík, M., Ježek, J., Šebek, M., Hurák, M. Polynomial Spectral Factorization with Complex Coefficients, IFAC World Congress b'02, Barcelona, June 20-26 2002.

  Hurák, Z. Using Matlab for simulation of scheduling and computational delays. InProc. of IFAC Workshop on Programmable Devices, Ostrava 2000.

  Hurák, Z., M. Šebek. New tools for spherical uncertain systems with Polynomial toolbox for Matlab. In Proc. of Matlab'00 conference, pp.116-121.

  Hurák, Z., M. Šebek. Stability of sampled-data systems with uncertain delays. In Proceedings of European Control Conference'01, Porto, Portugal, 4-7^th October 2001.

  Hurák, Z., Hromčík, M. On robust stability of complex polynomials. In Proceedings of 13^th Conference on Process Control PC'01, Štrbské Pleso, Slovensko, 11-13^th June 2001.

Teaching

• robust control (lectures),Czech Technical University, Prague, CR, fall 2000 through 2007.
• theory of dynamic systems (seminars and labs),Czech Technical University, Prague, CR, spring 2000 through 2007.
• microcontrollers in control design, Military Academy in Brno, Czech Republic, spring 2000

PhD projects currently supervised

• Polynomial approach to control design for spatially distributed systems - Petr Augusta, started in February 2005
• Feedback control of piezoelectric micromotors - Ondřej Holub, started in February 2005
• Input command shaping for piezoelectric stepper micromotors - Martin Špiller, started in February 2005
• Inertial measurement and estimation for detection of movement disorders of patients with Parkison desease - Ota Šprdlík, started in February 2005

Student (graduate diploma) projects currently supervised

1. Robust control design for diesel automotive engine - Lukáš Lánský (in collaboration with Ricardo company). Defense planned in February 2008.

Student (graduate diploma) projects supervised in the past

1. Computer-controlled switch for deep brain stimulator for fMRI environment - Jana Tauchmanová (in collaboration with Clinics of Neurology, University Hospital in Pragu). Defended in February 2007
2. Modelling and controller design for the dropped-foot problem - M. Hruska (in collaboration with the University Hospital in Olomouc), defended in February 2006.
3. Positioning control system for a solar collector - M. Spiller, 2005
4. Robust control design for systems with a flexible structure - O. Holub, 2005
5. Library of symbolic algorithms for polynomial matrices in MuPad - P. Augusta, 2005
6. Numerical algorithms for polynomials and polynomial matrices for the calculator TI-92 Plus - P. Stefko, 2004
7. Heating control system for a church building - L. Ferkl, 2003
8. Control-oriented library of numerical algorithms for polynomial matrices in Java - M. Padera, 2003
9. Control-oriented library of numerical algorithms for polynomial matrices in C/C++ - L.Halmo, 2003
10. MathML in Polynomial Toolbox for Matlab - R. Hornych, 2002
11. Advanced algorithms for aircraft attack (CCIP, CCRP, Hotline, Snapshoot) on a 8-bit microcontroller Siemens 80C517A - J. Ondryska (Military Academy in Brno), 1999

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