Ludek Zalud

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Home address: Pod Horkou 363/64, 635 00, Brno, Česká republika

Work phone: +420 541 143 641

Work e-mail: zalud@feec.vutbr.cz

Sex: Male

Date of birth: 18 August 1975

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 06/2011-present – Senior Researcher, CEITEC STI RG2-2, Research and Development of autonomous and teleoperated field robots,
• 08/2010-08/2011 – Senior Researcher, CVVOZE, Research and development
• 08/2011-present – Senior Researcher, FNUSA-ICRC, Research and development of rehabilitation medicine devices, optical body scanning,
• 04/2009-present – Head of Research, LTR s.r.o., Project leadership, development of heavy-duty mobile robot platforms, teleoperated and autonomous mobile robots,
• 09/2000-12/2011 – Researcher, Centre of Applied Cybernetics, Research,
• 09/2000-present – Researcher and academic staff, Brno University of Technology, Research: telepresence, human-to-robot interfaces, navigation, data-fusion, teaching: mobile and industrial robotics
• 06/1993-09/1999 – Alcor/Moravske pristroje a.s., Masarykova 1148, Zlin, 763 02, Software developer

EDUCATION

• 06/2016 – Professor, Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Electrotechnics and Automation
• 08/2006 – Associate Professor, Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Electrotechnics and Automation, habilitation thesis: Teleoperated Reconnaissance Robotic Systems
• 09/1998-08/2002 – Ph.D., Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Electrotechnics and Automation, doctoral thesis title: Proximity Laser Scanner Cross-Correlation Based Methods for Cooperative Self-Localization and Map Building. ISCED 6
• 09/1993-06/1998 – Ing. (MSc.), Brno University of Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Electrotechnics and Autimation, thesis title: Antagonistic Control, ISCED 5A

LANGUAGES

• English – active
• Spanish – passive

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

Mobile robotics – durable robots, human-to-robot interfaces, visual telepresence, multispectral datafusion, indoor and outdoor selflocalisation and navigation, robot sensors

Bioengineering – optical body scanning, biofeedback, virtual/augmented reality in rehabilitation

IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS

See https://www.vutbr.cz/lide/ludek-zalud-2815/publikace

IMPORATANT PROJECTS

• ATEROS – Autonomous TElepresence RObotic System
• CASSANDRA – Heterogeneous Mobile Robotic System
• ORPHEUS-AC2 – military robot for chemical contamination and radiation measurement
• ORPHEUS-X3 – civilian mobile robot for research and development