NavLIS group

NavLIS research fields

  • Design and development of indoor and outdoor navigation systems.
  • Design and development of pressure based measurement systems.
  • Design and development of modular avionic systems.
  • Signal of Opportunity applied in navigation systems.
  • Long-distance communication systems.
  • AI in navigation systems.

NavLIS facilities

  • Indoor flight arena
    • dedicated for hands-on courses of UAS design, development and building, drone pilot trainings
    • dedicated for R&D of UASs, their technologies and applications 
    • equipped soon by camera based tracking system for full UAV motion testing
    • equipped by fixed and rotary wing UAVs - Pilatus PC-6, Bellanca XXL, DJI Phantom 4, DJI 550, etc.
  • 1x instrumentation laboratory
    • dedicated for avionics and embedded measurement system design and development
    • equipped by a pressure system with PACE6000, temperature & humidity chamber, vibration table, electronic instrumentation for basic electrical quantities measurements, sensors for nonelectric quantities measurement


Current activities

Fixed-wing UAV applications for VLoS & BVLoS operations

Experiments with „home-made“ navigation systems

Embedded electronics for special use

We further pay attention to:

  • Long-distance communication for video and telemetry exchange - suited for BVLoS operation
  • Indoor UAS navigation
  • Robust navigation systems with increased accuracy - operating even in GNSS unreliable environment

Currently offered PhD topics

supervised by Assoc.prof. Jan ROHÁČ, PhD.

  • Smart navigation in smart cities
  • Navigation in GNSS denied environment
  • Navigation systems of terrestrial vehicles
  • Camera based tracking and navigation system
  • Navigation in emergency, security, and humanitarian services
  • Signal-of-opportunity based navigation of autonomous vehicles operated in dense urban areas

More details about doctoral degree studies at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering can be found on http://www.fel.cvut.cz/en/education/phd/study.html.

Topics are offered under the Aeronautical and Space Engineering PhD degree programme.


Contact

Assoc. prof. Jan ROHÁČ, PhD. - Dept. of Measurement, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, CTU in Prague

Address: Technicka 2, 166 27 Prague, Czech Republic, room No. T2: B3-455

Phone: (+420) 22435 3963, email: jan.rohac@fel.cvut.cz

Web: https://meas.fel.cvut.cz/people/rohac