Reports

A severe storm caused power outages. A group of drones flies out of charging stations located on high-voltage poles. They fly a designated route, their cameras scanning selected elements of the power lines. The footage obtained during the flight is analysed using machine learning and sent to inspection staff for final evaluation. They can thus immediately identify the point of failure and initiate repairs in a much shorter time than today's common practice.

The 10th jubilee edition of the Dean's Cup of the Faculty of Nuclear sciences and Physical Engineering (FJFI) was held on the traditional festive day of 8 May 2022. Unlike the previous two editions, this time it was not spoiled by the pandemic and dozens of teams in four main disciplines were involved in the battle for victory. All of course under the supervision of the Dean of FJFI doc. Václav Čuba.

The new university building passport methodology will not only help public universities in their dealings with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports but will also serve to give them a better overview of the buildings that the university owns and manages. The ministry can thus prepare subsidy programmes based on comparable information on university properties. The methodology was developed by an expert group composed of experts from the BUT, CTU, MU and UPCE, based on the decision of the MoEYS. The methodology was commented by a wide community of engineers from all universities.

With a six-month delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic, student carsharing Uniqway celebrated its third birthday. The service, created and run by students, first launched on 17 October 2018 and within three and a half years had expanded its fleet to 36 vehicles - a ŠKODA FABIA, a SCALA and an electric CITIGOe iV. Since the beginning, the service has been available to students and employees of partner universities, including the Czech Technical University in Prague. Since last year, Uniqway services have also been available to their graduates. More than 6,000 users have already signed up for the service, with more than 1,000,000 km driven collectively.

Ten student teams from five European schools of architecture worked on conceptual visions of development for the Strahov Hill area. The Future of Strahov Hill workshop took place in April at the Faculty of Architecture. The projects are intended to start a discussion about the brief for the planned architectural competition for the future design of the world's largest stadium.

Last week, a total of 85 teams from all over the Czech Republic competed in the 3-day FEL CTU Robotics Competition for the 2nd grade of primary schools and the corresponding classes of multi-year grammar schools. Each competition day determined one champion. The teams kepLErGO, Lasy Brick and PDV Crew then competed in a live televised superfinal on Tuesday 3 May. This determined the final winner, which was the PDW Crew team.

In April, a guided walk around the Lesser Town was held for Ukrainian mothers with children, the relatives of CTU students staying in the dormitories at Strahov.

After two and a half years of construction, a unique experimental laboratory, the largest of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe, was inaugurated on 28 April 2022 at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CIIRC CTU). Testbed for Industry 4.0 is a research infrastructure that is being built at CTU thanks to a significant investment of EU and Czech funds within the RICAIP centre. Thanks to this, Czech industry has access to the latest scientific knowledge and applications for advanced manufacturing and modern factories of the 21st century. On this occasion, cooperation with the German Fraunhofer Institute IWU and the University of Ostrava VŠB-TUO was signed in the presence of government representatives.

The robotic competition, organized by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, was also attended by the youngest generation educated at CTU - pupils of the Lvíčata (Lion Cubs) primary school established by the university. And they certainly didn't lose their way!

Prof. Pavel Exner was elected a member of the Mathematical Section of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc). This non-governmental, non-profit and independent organization brings together almost a thousand scientists working in Europe, including ten from the Czech Republic.