Reports

Rector of CTU, doc. RNDr. Vojtěch Petráček, CSc. greeted the participants of the 7th Innovation Week on Monday, 10 October.

Prof. Ing. Jan Macek, DrSc., FEng. from Faculty of Mechanical Engineering has been dealing with means of transport and energy and environmental aspects of transport throughout his professional career by means of simulations and experiments on vehicle power units. He has been educating students for decades, mainly in master and doctoral programmes. He is the author of hundreds of technical papers published in national and international professional and specialized media and is frequently quoted. He also has twenty patents to his credit. He was honored for his life's work this week at the International Engineering Fair in Brno.

The possibilities of generating jazz music using artificial intelligence algorithms were tested at the Faculty of Information Technology of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU). The composition generated with the help of artificial intelligence algorithms was then transcribed into sheet music by experts so that it could be accessible to professional musicians who could rehearse it. This offered a comparison of live performance with purely electronic playback. The whole event took place at the AI Jazz Concert on 6 October 2022 at the CTU FIT.

The understanding of architectural design, the perception of space, form and masses is one of the biggest pitfalls in communication between the layperson and the architect. Designing architecture in virtual reality, which is now being taught to students of the Faculty of Civil Engineering during beta testing of the Wearrecho tool, will allow even "non-architects" to understand and experience architecture authentically and appreciate the possibilities of design. In the future, this may mean a transformation of the possibilities of not only presenting architecture, but of access to it in general.

Faculty of Electrical Engineering developed a method to identify counterfeit copyright photographs. Researchers have developed procedures for verifying original copyright prints, using the properties of a hyperspectral camera and subsequent image processing.

During his visit to the Czech Republic, Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice President of the European Commission for the Green Deal for Europe, also visited the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics at CTU. Here, on Monday 26 September, he learned about the solutions for sustainable and smart industry being developed at the RICAIP - Testbed for Industry 4.0, the Energy 4.0 Laboratory and the Future City Centre. The second half of the visit was dedicated to a discussion with students and scientists from the Czech Technical University in Prague.

One of this year's five winners of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award, the most prestigious award for artists under 35, is Vojtěch Radakulan, a PhD student at the Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. His work, which, according to art experts, draws its aesthetics mainly from the gaming world, will be on display at the joint exhibition of this year's laureates at the National Gallery from 23 September 2022.

The Faculty of Information Technology of the Czech Technical University in Prague (FIT CTU) responded to the needs of online learning arising during the coronavirus pandemic and built a professional streaming and recording studio with state-of-the-art equipment on the premises of the faculty. Thanks to state-of-the-art technology, at a cost of almost CZK 4 million, it provides quality online teaching to its students, presents science and offers its services throughout the whole CTU.

Multi-frequency satellite receivers using various satellite systems, mainly Galileo in addition to GPS, will help to refine the position of Prague trams. Thanks to this, their accuracy even in the dense development of the centre of Prague is very high, showing deviations of no more than 2 metres. They should be installed in all trams in regular service by the end of next year. The project with the Transport Company of the Capital City of Prague (DPP) is being worked on. The project was carried out by scientists from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

Once again after a year, the student teams of the CTU in Prague appeared in public on the Dejvice campus as part of the CTU Racing Day. Thanks to dynamic demonstrations, the machines were presented in their element: combustion formula car of the CTU CarTech workshop from the Faculty of Engineering, electric and autonomous formula car from the workshops of the eForce FEE Prague Formula team from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and also electric and combustion road racing motorcycles of the CTU Lions team from the Faculty of Transportation Sciences.