Jan Faigl
[cv, publications]
Agent Technology Center
dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Czech Technical University in Prague
 Office: KN:E-333a,
Karlovo namesti 13, 121 35 Praha 2,
Czech Republic
Tel.: +420-2-2435 7400
E-mail: faiglj@fel.cvut.cz
Research Awards Students Publications
Research: mobile robotics, multi-goal planning, path and motion planning, computational geometry, optimal sampling design, multi-robot systems, autonomous field navigation; in general, topics related to a robotic system for autonomous long-term environment monitoring


Current activities and projects:
Awards:
  • 2013 - Dean award for an exceptional master thesis of Lenka Mudrová, a master student supervised by me, on a topic Entropy-Like Estimation Technique in Mobile Robot Localization (info).
  • 2013 - Fulbright scholarship award for a visiting position at University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 2013/2014.
  • 2011 - Antonin Svoboda prize for the best PhD dissertation in the Czech Republic - Czech Society for Cybernetics and Informatics.
  • 2010 - Best Paper Award for the Symposium Theory and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (20th European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research).
  • 2009 - 1st place in RoboTour outdoor delivery challenge.
  • 2009 - Dean award for an exceptional master thesis of Jan Mačák, a master student supervised by me, on a topic Multi-Robot Cooperative Inspection Task (info).
  • 2008 - 1st place in RoboTour outdoor delivery challenge
  • 2008 - Dean award for an exceptional master thesis of Vojtěch Vonásek, a master student supervised by me, on a topic Trajectory Generation for Cooperative Inspection Task.
  • 2007 - 3rd place in RoboTour outdoor delivery challenge.
  • 2006 - 3rd place in RoboTour outdoor delivery challenge.
Students: If you are a prospective student interested in a topic presented at this page, I encourage you to contact me for a project or thesis topic. If a specific topic is not listed bellow, there are not a specific topic; however, we can discuss a particular topic of your interest regarding your background in robotics and related fields. The current general topics (for thesis including bachelor, master or doctoral) are as follows:
  • Principles of self-organization in optimization tasks
  • Computational intelligence in collective robotics
  • Motion and task allocation planning in multi-robotic systems
  • Environment modelling for planning in autonomous systems
  • Long-term navigation in autonomous robotic systems
  • Sensor fusion techniques in building spatial awareness
Particular topics for semestral projects, bachelor or master theses:
  • OpenCL in feature extraction from sensoric data
  • Graph partitioning for speeding up graph search methods
  • Web based repository management, backuping and maintenance (svn)
  • Low-cost vision based relative localization systems
  • Multi-agent global localization system using low-cost web cameras
Pulications: Full publications list in pdf, DBLP, Google Scholar, Ph.D. thesis - Multi-Goal Path Planning for Cooperative Sensing
Miroslav Kulich, Jan Chudoba, Karel Košnar, Tomáš Krajník, Jan Faigl, Libor Přeucil.
SyRoTek - Distance Teaching of Mobile Robotics.
IEEE Trans. Education 56(1):18-23, 2013.
Jan Faigl, T. Krajník, V. Vonásek, and L. Přeučil.
On Localization Uncertainty in an Autonomous Inspection.
ICRA, 1119-1124, 2012.
Jan Faigl, Miroslav Kulich, Libor Přeučil.
Goal assignment using distance cost in multi-robot exploration.
IROS, 3741-3746, 2012.
Martin Saska, Tomáš Krajník, Jan Faigl, Vojtěch Vonásek, Libor Přeučil.
Low cost MAV platform AR-drone in experimental verifications of methods for vision based autonomous navigation.
IROS, 4808-4809, 2012.
Alejandro Vazquez-Otero, Jan Faigl, Alberto P. Munuzuri.
Path planning based on reaction-diffusion process.
IROS, 896-901, 2012.
Jan Faigl, Miroslav Kulich, and Libor Přeučil.
A sensor placement algorithm for a mobile robot inspection planning.
Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 62(3-4):329-353 2011. doi: 10.1007/s10846-010-9449-0.
Jan Faigl, Miroslav Kulich, Vojtěch Vonásek, and Libor Přeučil.
An Application of Self-Organizing Map in the non-Euclidean Traveling Salesman Problem.
Neurocomputing 74:671-679, 2011. doi: 10.1016/j.neucom.2010.08.026.
Jan Faigl.
Approximate Solution of the Multiple Watchman Routes Problem with Restricted Visibility Range.
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 21(10):1668-1679, 2010. doi: 10.1109/TNN.2010.2070518
Jan Faigl, Vojtěch Vonásek, and Libor Přeučil.
A Multi-Goal Path Planning for Goal Regions in the Polygonal Domain
In Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Mobile Robots. 171-176, 2011.
T. Krajník, Jan Faigl, V. Vonásek, K. Košnar, M. Kulich, and L. Přeučil.
Simple yet stable bearing-only navigation
Journal of Field Robotics, 27(5):511-533, 2010, doi: 10.1002/rob.20354 [pdf].
Jan Faigl, T. Krajník, V. Vonásek, and L. Přeučil.
Surveillance Planning with Localization Uncertainty for UAVs.
In 3rd Israeli Conference on Robotics, Ariel, 2010, [pdf].
Jan Faigl.
On the Performance of Self-Organizing Maps for the non-Euclidean Traveling Salesman Problem in the Polygonal Domain.
Information Sciences, 181(19):4214-4229, 2011. doi: 10.1016/j.ins.2011.05.019
Jan Faigl, Libor Přeučil.
Self-Organizing Map for the Multi-Goal Path Planning with Polygonal Goals.
In T. Honkela et al. (Eds.): ICANN 2011, Part I, LNCS 6791, 85-92, 2011.

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