Simak, V.

Vojtech Šimák was born in Žilina, Czechoslovakia, in 1980. He received the M.S. degree in information and safety-related systems and the Ph.D. degree in control engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Žilina (UNIZA), Slovakia, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. During his Ph.D. study, he stayed for five months with the Control Engineering Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, in 2007. From 2007 to 2009, he was a Researcher with the Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, UNIZA. Since 2009, he has been with the Department of Control and Information Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, UNIZA, Slovakia. His research interests include industrial and mobile robotics and positioning systems, particularly navigation, inertial systems and computer vision.