About department

Department of Automation and Human Machine Interactions was established on 13.2.2019. Department provides teaching courses focusing on automation and control, especially applied technical cybernetics, process automation, sensor systems, theory and field instrumentation of automatic control, identification, modeling and simulation of systems using artificial intelligence methods. Department guarantees study programmes at the second level of university education, "Industrial automation”, and at the third level of university education "Industrial automation". Department performs scientific research activities, mainly in these areas:

  • automation and control in industry and services,
  • application of artificial intelligence methods for the identification, modeling, simulation and control of nonlinear systems and in biometrics.
  • modelling and design of man - machine communication interfaces.

 

History of department

The establishment and history of this department is connected with the Department of General Mechanics at VŠT in Košice, founded in 1952, from which in 1955 the Department of Water and Thermal Engines was allocated under the leadership of prof. F. Šujanský.

Department development:

1952 - 1954
  Department of General Mechanics (prof. Ing. František Kámen, CSc.)
1954 - 1959
  Department of Water and Thermal Engines (prof. Ing Ferdinand Šujanský, CSc.)
1959 - 1966
  Department of Machine Building (prof. Ing. František Šujanský, CS.)
1966 - 1970
  Department of Power Engineering (prof. Ing. František Šujanský, CSc.)
1970 1973
  Department of Power Engineering (doc. Ing. Fedor Čupka, CSc.)
1973 - 1986
  Department of Instrumentation, Control and Power Engineering (doc. Ing. Fedor Čupka, CSc.)
1986 - 1990
  Department of Measurement and Control (doc. Ing. Dušan Šimšík, CSc.)
1990 - 1998
  Department of Measurement and Control (prof. Ing. Ivan Slimák, CSc.)
1998 - 2001
  Department of Automation, Measurement and Mechatronics (prof. Ivan Góts, PhD.)
     
2001 - 2002
  Department of Automation, Measurement and Mechatronics (Dr.h.c. prof. Ing. Jozef Živčák, PhD.) - in 2002 there was a change and it lead to the separation and creation of another department
2002 - 2008
  From 1.9.2002: Department of Instrumentation and Biomedical Engineering (KpaBI) (Dr.h.c. prof. Ing. Jozef Živčák, PhD.)
2002 - 2008
  Establishment of a new department: Department of Automation and Control (KaaR) (prof. Ing. Tomáš  Saloky, PhD.)
2008 - 2011
  Association of KPaBI and KAaR into the: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Automation and Measurement (prof. Dr. Jozef Živčák, PhD.)
2011 - 2019     Department of Automation, Control and Human Machine Interactions (prof. Ing. Dušan Šimšík, PhD.)
2019 up to now
  Department of Automation and Human Machine Interactions (prof. Ing. Alena Galajdová, PhD.)