Nearly 200 students joined the 2022 MRS Summer School held at the Department of Cybernetics, FEE CTU

Dvě stě studentů z celého světa se na Fakultě elektrotechnické ČVUT učí létat s drony
The Multi-Robot Systems Group hosted on August 1-5, 2022, the 2022 IEEE RAS Summer School on multi-robot systems. Nearly 200 attendees from six continents and well-known lecturers from recognized robotics laboratories worldwide participated to the event. On Friday, the event concluded with hands-on experiments with autonomous drones on the Císařský Island in Prague. News in …read more

Tomáš Báča awarded the 2022 Joseph Fourier Prize for Computer Sciences

Tomáš Báča awarded the 2022 Joseph Fourier Prize for Computer Sciences
Tomáš Báča from the Multi-Robot Systems Group placed 2nd and got the 2022 Joseph Fourier Prize for Computer Sciences by the Embassy of France. Congratulations! Check out Tomáš’s thesis “Cooperative Sensing by a Group of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” here: https://dspace.cvut.cz/handle/10467/93279…

A power-tower line near Libomyšl checked by autonomous drones

Drony skupiny MRS zkontrolovaly elektrické vedení u Libomyšle
In cooperation with Skupina ČEPS, our drones inspected a power-tower line near Libomyšl, Czech Republic. The drones autonomously took off, inspected the power-tower according to the pre-defined trajectories and took pictures of the tower itself and the insulators. The power-tower inspection is a part of the EU Horizon2020 Aerial-Core project. Also, the drone cooperation with …read more

The IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems

The IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems
APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED till 1st June 2022!!! The main scope of the 2022 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems will be systems of cooperating aerial vehicles and swarms, including lectures by well-recognized experts in the field, and hands-on experience with real-world experiments using state-of-the-art aerial platforms developed for Multi-Robot research. The 2022 IEEE RAS …read more

Petr Štěpán received the Dean’s Award for teaching

Petr Štěpán received the Dean’s Award for teaching
Dr. Petr Štěpán received the Dean’s Award for teaching in the winter semester 2021/22. Teachers are awarded for teaching results based on the recommendation of a Committee appointed by the Dean. The committee decision is based on the results of the students´ verbal survey, suggestions of the heads of departments, and other factors such as …read more

MRS drones documented the interiors of St. Moritz church in Olomouc

MRS drones documented the interiors of St. Moritz church in Olomouc
MRS system for documentation of the interiors of historical monuments by autonomous aerial vehicles has been deployed in the St. Moritz church in Olomouc. The drones can visit places which are not visible to the pilot as they fly autonomously, judging the environment using their onboard sensors and computer technology. They are able to take …read more

EXPO 2020 in Dubai

Participation of the Multirobotic Systems Group at EXPO 2020 in Dubai is captured in a documentary by Czech Television Czech 3D and Czech Robot – MRS passage starts at 19.45 Martin Saska’s drone team is also mentioned by Forbes in its EXPO selection

Vojtěch Spurný defended his PhD. Thesis

Vojtěch Spurný successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis  Complex System for Fast and Reliable Deployment of Cooperating Autonomous Aerial Vehicles. Supervisor: Doc. Ing. Martin Saska, Dr.rer.nat. Congratulatios!

Christmas Video Success 2021

Christmas Video Success 2021
The Christmas video “Happy Holidays from the Robot Nativity” was very popular in the last days of this year. – on YouTube – almost 17 500 views, 735 likes, 28 comments – on Facebook – more than 16,200 views, reach among 46,000 people, 1,100 positive reactions only (thumbs up, hearts, etc.), 192 shares, 65 comments …read more

Our robots wish everyone a Merry Christmas

An empty lecture hall bathed in blue evening light. Silence reigns, only on the blackboard we see a complex pattern over which is written “Merry Christmas”. Then a Scarab wrapped in Christmas lights walks across one of the tables, soon a robot emerges from behind the door, shrouded in darkness, and the slow strains of …read more
Responsible person: Petra Rosická