On January 20th, 2022, the Conference of Doctoral Students Novus Scientia 2022 was held, which is focused on the presentation of research results of doctoral students of engineering faculties and related faculties of technical universities and colleges. The conference provides doctoral students to present the results of their scientific research, discuss them in a broader context, establish cooperation between workplaces and individuals with a related research focus and thus improve scientific research at the doctoral level. The conference is held under the auspices of the Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University in Košice Dr.h.c. mult. prof. Ing. Jozef Živčák, PhD., MPH.

The conference focuses on the following topics:

Automation, mechatronics and robotics
Technological and materials engineering
Management, industrial and digital engineering
Structural and process engineering
Special engineering processologies

The following papers were presented for the Department of Industrial Automation and Mechatronics:
Ing. Martin Varga - Mathematical model of a pneumatic bellows actuator

Ing. Tomáš Merva - Soft Actor-Critic in robotic arm position control within ROS

Ing. Peter Ján Sinčák - Kinematic analysis of redundant robot