Tomáš Michálek's dissertation defense

Thu, 12/17/2020

Finally the time has come for Tomáš Michálek to defend his dissertation thesis. The title of the thesis (and the defense) is Micromanipulation Using Dielectrophoresis: Modeling and Real-Time Optimization-Based Control.

The event will be held on Thursday, December 17, 2020, at 2:00 PM (Central European Standard Time). Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the defense will have to be realized in a remote mode (just Tomáš and some committee member will be in the seminar room) and there will be a videostream on FEL Youtube channel (only the committee members, the reviewers, the advisor and co-advisor and some member of the faculty administration will meet distantly using some remote meeting platform).

The dissertation can be dowloaded at https://support.dce.felk.cvut.cz/mediawiki/images/0/09/Diz_2020_michalek_tomas.pdf.

During his doctoral studies, Tomáš was officially advised by Doc. Zdeněk Hurák and co-advised by Dr. Jiří Zemánek.

The three distinguished reviewers (and their reviews are) are:

The official dissertation committee members are

  • Prof. Michael Šebek (Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Eletrical Engineering, Department of Control Engineering)
  • Doc. Miloslav Čapek (Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Eletrical Engineering, Department of Electromagnetic Field)
  • Doc. Kristian Hengster-Movric (Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Eletrical Engineering, Department of Control Engineering)
  • Doc. Daniel Georgiev (University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Cybernetics)
  • Dr. Branislav Rehák (Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information Theory and Automation)
Video: Noncontact positioning and rotation of a nonsperical object using dielectrophoresis
Image: Quadrupole electro array for manipulation using dielectrophoresis