Plenary sessions
"Evolution of power supply networks supported by the development of power electronics – challenges, problems and solutions"
will be presented by prof. Ryszard Michał STRZELECKI - Gdynia Maritime University
The lecture concerns the transformative role of power electronics in shaping modern energy infrastructure. The presented material comprehensively introduces and analyzes issues related to the application of power electronic technologies in the transmission and distribution of electrical energy. It begins with a retrospective of conventional thyristor and transistor - based systems such as "HVDC," "FACTS," and the so-called "CUSTOM POWER," whose operation and control, together with the system concept "FRIENDS," form the paradigm of today's "smart" AC power grids. In connection with this, atypical power electronic systems are also discussed, including hybrid, multi-level, and so-called "partial" converters, which are of practical interest. The latter part of the lecture focuses on selected problems and solutions in the field of developing DC microgrids. These include circuit breakers and protection systems, matching circuits for different types of DC networks, unconventional "partial" DC/DC converters, as well as active DC filters. The possibility of utilizing DC traction networks to support DC microgrid power supply, including EV charging, is also analyzed. Related to this topic is a presented multi-port converter with additional HF-isolating modules. In the summary, issues of EMC in DC networks are discussed, along with selected industrial solutions of converters designed for AC and DC networks are discussed.
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Ryszard Michał STRZELECKI ORCID 0000-0001-9437-9450) was born in 1955 in Bydgoszcz, and studied at the Faculty of Industrial Electronics of the Kiev Polytechnic University in 1976-1981. He also obtained his Ph.D. there in 1984. In 1991, he defended his habilitation thesis on "Predictive control of power electronic converters with forced commutation" at the Institute of Electrodynamics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Kiev. In 1999, he received the title of professor of technical sciences from the President of the Republic of Poland. He began his scientific career at the ATR in Bydgoszcz in 1981. In 1993-2003, he worked at the University of Zielona Góra, where he headed the Institute of Electrical Engineering from 1995. From 2004 to 2017 he was employed at the Gdynia Maritime University, and from 2008 to 2021 at the Institute of Electrical Engineering in Warsaw. In the years 2017-2024 he was associated with the Gdańsk University of Technology. Currently he is a full professor at the Gdynia Maritime University in the Department of Renewable Energy and E-mobility and a scientific consultant for power electronics of the board of AREX Sp. z o.o. (WB Group) in Gdynia. Author of many scientific articles, monographs, patents and implementations, honored with many distinctions and awards. Member of the Committee on Electrical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research interests in particular concern power electronics systems for conditioning, quality and flow control of electrical energy, taking into account the issues of "smart" DC and AC networks.
"Motion Coordination of Teams of Mobile Robots"
will be presented by prof. Ming CAO - University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Team movement control, including navigation and path-following, are fundamental functions for mobile robots carrying out environmental monitoring and sampling tasks. New challenges arise when control algorithms have to be designed for a team of robots with limited communication capacity and the environment may contain obstacles. In this talk, I show how to design guiding vector fields to enable motion coordination among robots; I also show how to construct composite guiding vector fields to avoid colliding with obstacles of arbitrary shapes. Both theoretical guarantees and experimental validations are discussed for practical scenarios.
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Ming Cao has since 2016 been a professor of networks and robotics with the Engineering and Technology Institute (ENTEG) at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, where he started as an assistant professor in 2008. Since 2022 he is the director of the Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology and AI at the same university. He received the Bachelor degree in 1999 and the Master degree in 2002 from Tsinghua University, China, and the Ph.D. degree in 2007 from Yale University, USA. From 2007 to 2008, he was a Research Associate at Princeton University, USA. He worked as a research intern in 2006 at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA. He is an IEEE Fellow. He is the 2017 and inaugural recipient of the Manfred Thoma medal from the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and the 2016 recipient of the European Control Award sponsored by the European Control Association (EUCA). He is a Senior Editor for Systems and Control Letters, and is or has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transaction on Control of Network Systems, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, and IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine. He is a member of the IFAC Council and a vice chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Large-Scale Complex Systems. His research interests include autonomous robots and multi-agent systems, complex networks and decision-making processes.
"Motion-Copying System for Reproduction of Human Motions"
will be presented by prof. Seiichiro Katsura - Keio University
The reproduction and transfer of various human skills to robots are essential not only for automation but also for supporting human activities. We have developed a novel method for preserving and reproducing human motion based on advanced motion control technology. This method, called the Motion-Copying System (MCS), serves as a spatio-temporal coupler for real-world haptic information.
Similar to the preservation of sound and visual data, the MCS can capture and reproduce the raw force and position information of human operators. Once human motions are stored as digital data, it becomes possible not only to analyze expert skills but also to transfer them to robots. Furthermore, this enables quantitative training, including applications in rehabilitation.
In this lecture, we will also present recent developments and challenges related to medical applications.
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Seiichiro Katsura received his B.E. degree in System Design Engineering, and his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Integrated E-Design Engineering, from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2001, 2002, and 2004, respectively. From 2003 to 2005, he was a Research Fellow with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). From 2005 to 2008, he was with the Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan. Since 2008, he has been with the Department of System Design Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, where he is currently a Professor.
In 2017, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering (WZL), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. His research interests include applied abstraction, human support systems, data-driven robotics, wave systems, energy conversion in systems, and electromechanical integration systems.
Prof. Katsura has been actively involved in the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES). He serves as a Senior Editor for the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics and as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics. He previously served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and is currently Chair of the IES Technical Committee on Sensors and Actuators.
He is the author or co-author of more than 200 journal papers, 550 peer-reviewed international conference papers, and 35 patents. His awards include the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ) Distinguished Paper Award (2003, 2017), the Best Paper Award at the European Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (EPE-PEMC’08, 2008), the IEEE IES Best Conference Paper Award (2012), the JSPS Prize (2016), and the Istvan Nagy Award (2024).
"Postępowania awansowe w dziedzinie nauk inżynieryjno-technicznych w dyscyplinie automatyka, elektronika, elektrotechnika i technologie kosmiczne"
wygłosi prof. Andrzej Bartoszewicz, prof. Mariusz Malinowski, prof. Andrzej Sikorski
The paper discusses current challenges in academic promotion procedures within the field of engineering and technical sciences, specifically in the discipline of automation, electronics, electrical engineering, and space technologies, as well as in related areas.
The presentation begins with an overview of the statutory foundations of the Council for Scientific Excellence and its main responsibilities. Subsequently, the most important legal acts governing academic promotion procedures are outlined, along with the formal requirements for obtaining the doctoral and postdoctoral (habilitation) degrees, as well as the title of full professor.
A separate section of the paper focuses on the role of scientometric indicators in promotion procedures. In particular, it will be shown that, on the one hand, these indicators are important because they often provide a reasonable reflection of a candidate’s recognition within the international research community; on the other hand, they must always be interpreted in the context of the candidate’s specific research area and individual “publication strategy.”
An important part of the presentation will address issues related to research integrity and its verification during academic promotion processes. Finally, several technical remarks will be presented that may be useful both for applicants seeking academic degrees or titles and for reviewers participating in promotion procedures.
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Andrzej Bartoszewicz received the Ph.D. degree from the Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, in 1993. He is currently a professor of control systems with the Faculty of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering, the head of the Electric Drive and Industrial Automation Unit and the director of the Institute of Automatic Control. He has authored three monographs and over 370 papers, primarily in the field of discrete time sliding mode control, inventory management, and congestion control in data transmission networks. Prof. Bartoszewicz was a recipient of the Polish Prime Minister Award. He is an ordinary member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the president of the Łódź Branch of the Academy and the chairman of the Committee on Automatic Control and Robotics of the Academy.
Mariusz Malinowski received the Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Warsaw, Poland, in 2001 and 2012, respectively. He is currently with the Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics, WUT. He has co-authored more than 150 technical papers and seven books. His current research interests include the control and the modulation of grid-side converters, multilevel converters, smart grids, and power-generation systems based on renewable energies. Prof. Malinowski was a recipient of the IEEE IES David Irwin Early Career Award, IEEE IES Bimal Bose Energy Systems Award, Polish Prime Minister Award and the Polish Ministry of Science and High Education Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Andrzej Sikorski received the M.Sc. degree from Bialystok University of Technology, Białystok, Poland, in 1980, the Ph.D. degree from Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, in 1989, and the D.Sc. degree from Poznan University of Technology, Poznań, Poland, in 2000, all in electrical engineering. He has authored 2 monographs and coauthored more than 150 papers in technical journals and conference proceedings. In 2011 he was bestowed professorship in technical sciences by the President of the Republic of Poland. His research interests include the areas of electric drives, power electronics, particularly ac/dc/ac back-to-back converters. He is a member of the Committee on Electrical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the chairman of Białystok Branch of the Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Electrical Engineering.