Why get involved?

Are you hesitant to become active in the KEP department during your studies? By working on our projects, you can gain valuable experience and contacts, access to our laboratories, use state-of-the-art equipment, and earn some extra money. We treat students who work with us as equal partners and consider them an important part of our department. If you join us, you can participate in international and domestic conferences and other interesting events. Plus, you can experience what it's like to organize a conference.

How to get involved?

Final project / Diploma thesis

Every year we offer many new interesting thesis and dissertation topics focused on current research questions. If you do not like any of the topics, we can prepare a topic tailored to your needs. Either contact someone you think could address the topic, or simply ask your supervisor/lecturer for advice. Below you will find a list of interesting theses that students have worked on with us.

Research projects

Are you interested in any of the projects listed on our website? We would be glad if you work with us on it. You don't need any special skills, just enthusiasm and interest, and we will teach you everything else. Just contact the person who is listed next to the project or your lecturer; they will definitely point you in the right direction. By working on projects, you can also earn quite a bit of money.

Do you have your own project or idea? Whether it's microprocessor programming, an amplifier, a simulator, a 3D printer, or a solar panel, our Department is truly multidisciplinary, and you will find experts from all different fields. Don't hesitate to ask. 

Ph.D. programme

If you feel like you don’t know everything you want to know, even after completing a postgraduate degree, there's always the Ph.D. You can choose from one of the topics or come up with your own. A Ph.D. is a unique opportunity to work independently on a big project, take your scientific knowledge a step further, learn a plethora of new things, and, most importantly, to meet new people, explore foreign countries, and take return with unforgettable experiences.

Examples of students' thesis

A selection of interesting student theses carried out in recent years at the KEP department. 

Kateřina Jozová - Anisotropic Behaviour of Magnetorheological Elastomers Jiří Muška - Linear Peristaltic Pump Vojtěch Lapuník - Electronic Digital Materials and Miniature Robots Ondřej Naxer - Adaptive Battery System Model for Electromobility Ondřej Carvan - Separation of Electronic Waste Using Miniature Magnetic Robots Martin Vítek - Device for Mapping of Stationary Magnetic Field in Plane David Šmucr - Fully electromagnetic ball valve Martin Šula - Electrostatic Separation of Crops Pavel Novotný - Modular Constant Current Power Supply for Electromagnetic Actuators Petr Stašek - Design of Main Drives of Paraglider Simulator Richard Sivera - Advanced Control of Servomotors for Paraglider Simulator

Kateřina Jozová - Anisotropic Behaviour of Magnetorheological Elastomers

Supervisor: Ing. František Mach, Ph.D.

The aim of the work is the analysis of the magnetic and electrical properties of anisotropic magnetorheological elastomers, composites of elastomer doped with microparticles of ferromagnetic material. In addition to the material characterization, the work also develops a method of fabrication using voxels (basic building blocks), which allow to create almost any product. In its conclusion, the thesis then illustrates both the material properties achieved and the fabrication procedures on a prototype elastic transformer.

The results of this work were presented at the MARSS 2022 conference and published in the peer-reviewed proceedings (https://doi.org/10.1109/MARSS55884.2022.9870465).

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Jiří Muška - Linear Peristaltic Pump

Supervisor: prof. Ing. Pavel Karban, Ph.D.

The bachelor thesis deals with the design and analysis of a linear peristaltic pump using five electromagnetic actuators for liquid pumping. The analysis included measurements of the forces exerted on moving core, the actuator heating caused by the passing electric current, the water flow rate and the results are compared with the results of mathematical models.

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Vojtěch Lapuník - Electronic Digital Materials and Miniature Robots

Supervisor: Ing. František Mach, Ph.D.

The work extends the idea of digital materials, functional materials made up of unified building blocks, combining them with miniature robots to form a unique concept of reconfigurable and self-assembling electronic circuits. Each building block, made up of an elementary electronic component, is also an independent miniature robot. The blocks can thus be moved around and combined into larger units. The whole system can then behave as a self-organising electronic circuit. This thesis addresses the concept itself, the design of the building blocks, their connection, as well as the algorithms for assembling the electrical circuit from the bits, optimizing them and assembling them automatically.

The work was published in Mateiral Times journal (https://www.materialtimes.com/tema/elektronicke-digitalni-materialy.html). The results were presented at the MARSS 2022 conference and published in peer-reviewed proceedings (https://doi.org/10.1109/MARSS55884.2022.9870499).

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Ondřej Naxer - Adaptive Battery System Model for Electromobility

Supervisor: Ing. Lenka Šroubová, Ph.D.

The subject of this thesis was to build a mathematical model for a typical battery system for electromobility, using realistic operating variables. The system evaluates the current battery status, driving profile and environmental conditions. The output is an optimized figure predicting the available travel range of the vehicle. A Raspberry Pi Pico was used to obtain and process the necessary underlying data, and the battery system model itself is implemented in Python.

The student was awarded the Dean's Prize for his work.

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Ondřej Carvan - Separation of Electronic Waste Using Miniature Magnetic Robots

Supervisor: Ing. Jiří Kuthan

The work is focused on proof-of-concept of automatic e-waste separation using miniature robots. It develops the concept and principle of separation, the design and manufacture of separation robots, visual algorithms for tracking and planning their movement, as well as algorithms for recognition and classification of individual waste components using deep neural networks.

The results were presented at the MARSS 2022 conference and published in peer-reviewed proceedings (https://doi.org/10.1109/MARSS55884.2022.9870505).

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Martin Vítek - Device for Mapping of Stationary Magnetic Field in Plane

Supervisor: Ing. Martin Juřík

The developed device can measure the magnetic field in real time at a resolution of 10x10 magnetic induction vectors or in a detailed scanning mode with a step size of 5 micrometers.

The student received the Dean's Award for Outstanding Paper and published the work at the MARSS 2019 conference

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David Šmucr - Fully electromagnetic ball valve

Supervisor: Ing. Karel Pospíšil

In this thesis, an innovative type of electromagnetic valve was designed, modelled, constructed and tested.   In this prototype, the valve ball is directly controlled by a mag field of coils. This type of valve has the potential to solve some of the shortcomings of conventional ball valves.

The author published the work in the CPEE 2021 conference.

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Martin Šula - Electrostatic Separation of Crops

Supervisor: Ing. Lenka Šroubová, Ph.D.

The thesis was focused on using electrostatic separation for sorting of agricultural crops. In particular, applying the principles of electrostatic separation for cleaning the grains of the basic crop from unwanted impurities in the form of dirt and weed seeds. Based on physical principles of known separators, the design and subsequent construction of an experimental device to verify the separability of crop mixtures was carried out. The experiments were carried out on a number of mixtures of agricultural crops with different materials representing impurities in the cereal mass.

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Pavel Novotný - Modular Constant Current Power Supply for Electromagnetic Actuators

Supervisor: Ing. Martin Vítek

The aim of the work was to create a current source for controlling electromagnetic actuators. A modular system was created that allows the assembly of the power supply from different modules to power the experiment. The modules communicate over a CAN bus and can be controlled from a computer.

The author received the Dean's Award for outstanding work.

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Petr Stašek - Design of Main Drives of Paraglider Simulator

Supervisor: prof. Ing. Pavel Karban, Ph.D.

The bachelor thesis deals with the design and implementation of the drives of a paraglider simulator. In order to properly design the topology of the actuators placement, an analysis of the kinematics of the pilot's movements in the seat had to be performed. The design of the actuator control is also addressed in the thesis, which includes the solution of the simulator kinematic problem. 3D printing technology was used extensively in this work.

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Richard Sivera - Advanced Control of Servomotors for Paraglider Simulator

Supervisor: Ing. Petr Kropík, Ph.D.

The work is focused on the development of a program for advanced servo motor control using Arduino Mega microcontroller for paraglider simulator. The thesis discusses the problems of paraglider flight, selection of suitable servomotors and development and optimization of control software in C++ language.

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