Professors in the Institute of Automation
J.Fraczek R.Gessing J.Kaluski J.Klamka H.Kowalowski M.Metzger A.Niederlinski J.Ober J.Piotrowski A.Swierniak Z.Trybalski K.Wojciechowski M.Zaborowski
Industrial measurements, explosionproof apparatus
Jerzy Fraczek graduated from the Technical University of Silesia in the field of Electrical Engineering in 1961. He received his Ph.D. in 1971 and D.Sc. (habilitation) in 1981, both in intrinsic safety, from Technical University of Silesia. His present position is as professor of industrial measurements. His main field of interest are industrial measurements, explosionproof apparatus (intrinsic safety) and reliability. He awarded with the British Council Scholarship in 1974 (research at the Safety in Mines Research Establishment in Sheffield) and with the IREX Scholarship in 1981 (research at the U.S. Bureau of Mines in Pittsburgh). He is chairman of the Commission of Metrology of the Polish Academy of Science in Katowice and member of the Polish Society of Sensors Technics.
Control theory, optimal control
Ryszard Gessing received the M.Sc. (1959), Ph.D. (1965), D.Sc. (habilitation) (1969) degrees in control engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Silesian Technical University in Gliwice, Poland. He is since 1976 associate professor and since 1989 full professor at the Institute of Automatic Control of the Silesian Technical University in Gliwice. Actually head of the Institute. He is the author of about 90 papers, some of them published in journals like “IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, "IEE Proceedings", "Transactions of ASME", "Systems and Control Letters", and author or co-author of 2 books and several text-books for students. His research interest concern: discrete-time systems, optimal control, optimisation, mutual relations between available information and quality of control, stochastic optimal control and its connection with estimation, large scale systems. He is the member of American Mathematical Society and of two Committees of International Federation of Automatic Control, namely Committee of Robust Control and Committee on Adaptive Control and Signal Processing , as well as the member of editorial board of Archives of Control Sciences, etc. As reviewer he collaborates with such journals as Mathematical Review, Zentralblatt fr Mathematik, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, etc.
Reliability, mathematical statistics, theory of queues, operational research
Jan Kaluski received his M.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from the Institute of Mechanical Precision's and Optics in Sankt-Petersburg, Russia (1968). In 1977 he received his Ph.D. in metrological reliability from the Technical University of Silesia. He awarded the D.Sc. (habilitation) degree in 1986 for his science achievements area of metrological reliability from the Technical University of Silesia. He is a professor of Technical University of Silesia since 1993.
His main areas of interest are metrological reliability of measuring devices, reliability of tasks schedules on an aggregate, reliability problems for industrial robots, uses of stochastic processes for control of the production line technique. He is chairman of the Reliability Section of the Federation Associations Science - Technical Department of Science.
Control theory, systems theory
Jerzy Klamka received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in control engineering from the Technical University of Silesia in 1968 and 1974, respectively. Moreover he received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of Silesia in Katowice in 1971 and 1978, respectively. He awarded the D.Sc. (habilitation) degree in 1981 for his contribution to controllability theory of dynamical systems from the Technical University of Silesia. He is a titular professor since 1990. His current research interests include controllability of distributed parameter systems, dynamical systems with delays and multidimensional discrete systems. J.Klamka is a member of American Mathematical Society (since 1976) and Polish Mathematical Society (since 1982). He is a reviewer of "Mathematical Reviews" (since 1976) and "Zentrallblatt fur Mathematik" (since 1981). He is author of the book "Controllability of Dynamical Systems" and about 100 research papers, some of them in journals like "Automatica", "IEEE Transactions of Automatic Control", "International Journal of Control", Systems and Control Letters", "Systems Science", "Foundation of Control Engineering".
Automation and robotics
Henryk Kowalowski received his M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Silesia in Gliwice, Poland in 1951. In 1955 he received his Ph.D. (after postgraduate studies) in dynamics of electromagnetic processes from Moscow Energetic Institute. Since 1971 he is professor and since 1984 - full professor. His areas of research and educational activities are: automation and robotics, computer integrated manufacturing, flexible manufacturing systems, industrial robots and robotics, industrial applications of artificial intelligence (knowledge based systems), decision theory. He was co-organizer of the first in Poland Department of Automation, served his term as the dean of the department and director of the Institute of Automation. He stimulated the establishment of new educational area Robotics and Automation into the national system of engineering education. He is organiser of the National Conference on Automation of Discrete Industrial Processes. He is author or co-author about 70 papers and 4 books (one for them is "Automation of Discrete Industrial Processes" published by WNT - Scientific and Technical Publisher, Warszawa, in 1984). He is member of Polish Society of Applied and Theoretical Electrotechnic and numerous Scientific Council.
Modelling, simulation and control of continuous industrial processes
Mieczyslaw Metzger received his M.Sc. degree in industrial automation from the Technical University of Silesia in Gliwice, Poland in 1971. In 1978 he received his Ph.D and the D.Sc. (habilitation) in 1989 in modelling, simulation and control of industrial processes. He is currently a professor at the Technical University of Silesia and V-ce Director for Research of the Institute of Automatic Control at the University.
He is an author or co-author of about 60 papers in international and Polish journals and conference proceedings and 11 textbooks. Some of them published in journals like "Simulation", "Control-Theory and Advanced Technology", "Water Science Technology", "Systems Analysis, Modelling and Simulation". He is a member of International Association of Water Quality and reviewer of Chemical Engineering Science.
His current research interests include modelling, simulation (conventional and real-time training simulators) and control of continuous industrial processes. The subjects of his studies are dynamic properties and control of processes in environment protection, in chemical and power plants and in biotechnology.
System identification, adaptive control
Antoni Niederlinski received the M.Sc. (1960) and Ph.D. (1964) degrees in control engineering from the Depart-ment of Electrical Engineering of Technical University of Silesia in Gliwice, Poland, and his D.Sc. (habilitation) (1975) from the Department of Automation, Electronics and Computer Science of the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy in Kraków, Poland. As a postgraduate student of engineering at the University of Cambridge, UK (1967-68) he started his first research on computer-aided identification and adaptive control. He is currently full professor of control engineering at the Institute of Automatic Control of the Technical University of Silesia, in Gliwice. He authored 7 books (in Polish) on digital process control and about 60 research papers, some of them in journals like "Automatica" and Int. Journal of Control. He served for many years as consultant on control and identification problems to the chemical and coal mining industry. His research centers around practically relevant methods of model identification and adaptive control.
Computer science
Jozef Ober received his M.Sc. (1968) and Ph.D. (1972) degrees in control engineering from Technical University in Magdeburg, Germany, and his D.Sc. (habilitation) (1974) from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Technical University of Silesia in Gliwice, Poland. His main interests included at this time system dynamic and power station automation as well as power engineering oriented computer science. In 1980 Prof. J.Ober established close cooperation with Rodin Foundation in Switzerland in course of which he invented a microprocessor based method of eye movement measurement (Ober2). His present research main-streams consist of construction, programming and implementation of microcomputer systems. He is currently professor of control engineering at the Institute of Automatic Control of the Technical University of Silesia, in Gliwice.
Metrology
Janusz Piotrowski, Ph.D.Sc. graduated from the Faculty of Automatic Control Engineering of the Technical University of Silesia in Gliwice, Poland. Having worked for a short time in the power industry, he has been working at the Technical University of Silesia since 1957. His main field of interest is metrology. The doctor's degree was conferred on him by the Technical University of Silesia in 1964, he qualified as assistant professor in 1986 at the Technical University of Warsaw. He has been full professor at the Technical University of Silesia since 1988. In 1991 he published "Signal Analysis Applications in Measurements (Polish Scientific Publishers, Warsaw). Since 1970 he has been giving lectures on Principles of Metrology, Principles of Electrical Metrology, and Automation of Experimental Research. In 1976 he gave lectures on Principles of Metrology in Ilmenau, Germany.
Janusz Piotrowski was also Chairman of the Commission of the Theory of Measurements in the Committee of metrology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Control theory, optimisation methods, biomedical modelling and control
Andrzej Swierniak received M.Sc., Ph.D. and D.Sc. (habilitation) degrees in control engineering respectively in 1972, 1978 and 1988 all from the Department of Automatic Control, Technical University of Silesia in Gliwice, and M.A. in mathematics in 1975 from University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. He is currently a professor at the Technical University of Silesia and V-ce Dean of the Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science. He is an author or co-author of about 100 papers in international and Polish journals and conference proceedings, and 8 textbooks. His research interests are in modern control and optimisation theory, biomedical modelling and control, artificial intelligence and CADM. He attended more than 60 international and domestic conferences including IFAC and IMACS World Congresses. He is a member of American Mathematical Society (since 1986), Polish Mathematical Society, Polish Society of Theoretic and Applied Electrotechnics, Society of Mathematical Biology and Marquis Who and Who in the World nominee. He is also permanent reviewer of Mathematical Reviews (since 1986) and Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (since 1984).
System dynamic and chemical plant and power station automation
Zdzislaw Trybalski received his Ph.D. (1958) and the D.Sc. (habilitation) (1962) degrees in industrial automation from the Technical University of Silesia in Gliwice. He is the author of about 40 papers and author 14 several paper-books for students. His research interests concern: automation in chemical engineering (flowsheetings - problems) and control of processes in biotechnology.
Control theory, image processing, pattern recognition, spatial information systems and neural networks
Konrad Wojciechowski received the M.Sc. (1968) from the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy in Kraków, Poland and Ph.D.(1986) and D.Sc. (habilitation) (1991) in control engineering from Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science of the Technical University of Silesia in Gliwice. He is currently a professor of the Technical University of Silesia. He authored about 80 research papers and 4 textbooks. His research centers around control theory, adaptive control, fuzzy control, image processing, pattern recognition, spatial information systems, robot vision, control based on visual information and neural networks. His most interesting results are in control law synthesis under bounded uncertainty and control based on visual information. He is the head of Laboratory of Computer Vision, director of doctoral studies in “Automation and Robotics and of postgraduate studies in “Spatial Information Systems. He is the charter-member of Association for Image Processing member of IAPR, member of Polish Society of Theoretic and Applied Electrotechnics. He is reviewer of “Machine Graphics & Vision and IEEE Transactions of Fuzzy Systems.
Large scale systems, industrial process optimization and scheduling