Assoc. prof. Jan Roháč, PhD.

Position

Associate professor

Phone number

+420-2-2435-3963

Room

T2:B3-455

E-mail

xrohac [at] fel.cvut.cz
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Organizational skills and competences:

  • Experience in a team management - a leader of the Navigation group at the Dept. of Measurement
  • Experience in an organization management - Deputy Head of the Czech Aerospace Society
  • Representative of the CTU in the PEGASUS Network
  • Lecturer of courses under regulation JAR-66, module 5, 13, 15 (the courses intended for airman-technicians) – recognized by CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY of the Czech Republic.
  • Responsible person of the Master study programme Aerospace Engineering given in FEE-CTU in Prague
  • Lecturer of a student course: Aircraft Avionics, FEE-CTU in Prague
  • Member of a counseling working group “Transport” at the Czech Ministry of Transportation

Main areas of interest:

  • Test and measurement systems, system design, modeling and simulation, measurement methods for electrical and non-electrical quantities, embedded systems, HW design.
  • Avionics, inertial navigation sensors, Indoor/outdoor navigation systems, GNSS, methods of data/signal processing, data validation and verification, data fusion.

The manager of several projects:

  • project of JPD3 program: CZ.04.3.07/3.1.01.3/3305 - Education Advancement of Airborne Information and Control Instrumentation (2006-2008)
  • RP2008: Členství ČVUT v Praze, FS, FEL a FD v PEGASUS Network (Czech)
  • internal CTU grant SGS10/288/OHK3/3T/13: MODULAR SYSTEM FOR ATTITUDE AND POSITION ESTIMATION
  • RP2010: Členství ČVUT v Praze, FS, FEL a FD v PEGASUS Network (in Czech)
  • RP2010: Podpora letectví na ČVUT v Praze (in Czech)
  • internal CTU grant SGS10/288/OHK3/3T/13: Modular system for attitude and position estimation, (2010-2012)
  • internal CTU grant SGS13/144/OHK3/2T/13: Modern methods in development of inertial navigation systems, (2013-2014)
  • TA02011092 - Research and development of technologies for radiolocation mapping and navigation systems, the grant of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (2012-2014)
  • VG20122015076 - The survey points range-finding system utilization for perimeter security (screen), the grant of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic (2012-2015)
  • VI20172019090 - Strategic infrastructure protective system detecting illegal acts affecting GNSS signals, the grant of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic (2017-2019)

Experience record:

02/2014 - now
Associate professor at the CTU in Prague, FEE, Dept. of Measurement
09/2004 - 01/2014
Assistant professor at the CTU in Prague, FEE, Dept. of Measurement
01/2010 - 08/2010
Development engineer at TL elektronic Inc., http://www2.tl-elektronic.cz/
05/2004 - 08/2004
Technician at the CTU in Prague, FEE, Dept. of Measurement

International experience record:

03/2017 – 07/2017
Visiting professor - Teaching a course On Board Systems & Integration
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Aerospace Science and Technology – Milan, Italy

03/2016 – 07/2016
Visiting professor - Teaching a course On Board Systems & Integration
Politecnico di Milano, Department of Aerospace Science and Technology – Milan, Italy

04/2015 – 07/2015
Coach in Design Synthesis Exercises intended for BSc. students
Coaching students in design projects: a) Maritime flyer, b) Inspection pocket drone

Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering – Delft, Netherlands
09/2001 – 04/2002
Research associate
Research in the topic: Design of a tracking system using a high-speed image sensor in a non-destructive mode
Shizuoka University, Research Institute of Electronics – Hamamatsu, Japan