Personnel of the Department conduct research and develop theories, methods, and tools needed to solve practical problems in computer-based control, diagnostics and decision-making.

Under our research investigations are such issues as: modeling and identification of objects, adaptive control, robust and predictive control, control and decision-support systems, detection and isolation of faults, optimization of vehicle control, as well as bio-manipulators and teams of mobile robots. Computational intelligence methods are a special object of our interest, effectively supporting solving practical problems.

Previous studies have resulted in many achievements in the field of predictive and adaptive control, diagnostics, modeling, identification and optimization, and artificial intelligence.

A special acknowledgment of this development was the Award of the Polish National Science Foundation, called 'Polish Nobel Prize', in Technical Sciences awarded to prof. Z. Kowalczuk.

Research and implementation topics

  • Decision-making systems.
  • Computational intelligence and systems of soft computing.
  • Evolutionary optimization methods.
  • Modeling and systems identification.
  • Object observation and state estimation.
  • Design and optimization of systems.
  • Intelligent systems of facilities management, including intelligent buildings.
  • Diagnosis of processes and systems.
  • Optimization of control and diagnostic systems.
  • Methods of designing adaptive, robust, predictive, and fuzzy systems.
  • Construction of bio-manipulators and prostheses.
  • Robotic control systems and manipulators.
  • Optimization of robotic systems, including trajectory design.
  • Teams of robots and team intelligence.

Business offer (implementations and services)

  • Development of practical, computer-implemented methods, tools as well as complete systems of control, diagnostics and decision-making.
  • Leak detection systems in industrial piping systems, including computer modeling and simulation systems of transmission networks.
  • Decision-making systems based on computational intelligence, including control systems for autonomous mobile robots and avatars, based on anthropoidal behaviors/patterns. 
  • Construction of bio-manipulators and teams of mobile robots.
  • Multi-sensor surveillance systems for moving objects, including radar systems.
  • Monitoring systems and smart energy-efficient management of industrial facilities and buildings based on specialized computer networks.
  • Troubleshooting:
    • modeling and identification of dynamical systems, including car engines,
    • estimation of the location of mobile objects, including floating and flying objects,
    • computer simulation of processes,
    • practical (adaptive, robust, predictive) control laws,
    • detection and isolation of defects,
    • artificial intelligence,
    • autonomy of robots.

The most important successes of the past year

  • Polish National Science Foundation Award, the so-called Polish Nobel, in Technical Sciences awarded to prof. Z. Kowalczuk.
  • Long-term cooperation with the automotive industry (like OBR-SO, Fiat, GM).