VSB - Technical University of Ostrava
PhD in RoboticsOstrava, Czech Republic
DURATION
4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
CZK 500 / per semester
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
Robotics is a modern and promising field that is already changing the world and has an open future - the demand for experts (and well-paid).
Robots ride, heal, and help, produce and grow, earn and clean. Almost everything is controlled automatically. And you will be there: to be able to develop, deploy, and use them.
We are interesting for foreign students - they study and even work for us.
We list creative topics of doctoral theses.
We are successful in obtaining scientific research projects and involve our students in their solutions.
We motivate students to complete internships and study trips abroad.
Admissions
Curriculum
Full-time and Part-time
- Applied Linear Algebra
- Automatic Control Theory
- Basic Methods of Statistical Data Analysis in Practice
- Classical Methods of Solution of Partial Differential Equations
- Computer Systems
- Design Optimization with CAD Support
- Electrical Drives
- Evaluation Methods of Measurement of Physical Quantities
- Finite Element Method in Mechanics
- Image Analysis
- Industrial Control Systems
- Mathematical modeling of engineering problems
- Mathematical Modelling and FEM
- Methods of Optimization
- Modeling of Mechatronic Systems
- Physics of Fluids
- Reliability and Functional Safety
- Reliability of Electronic Devices
- Robotics
- Robot Navigation Subsystems
- Robots and Robototechnic Systems
- Servomechanisms
- Software Engineering
- Technical Means of the Automation
- Theory and Design Methodology in Mechatronics
- English Language Dr.
- French Language Dr.
- German Language Dr.
- Russian Language Dr.
- Spanish Language Dr.
Program Outcome
Hard Skills
- 2D design programs
- Mathematical methods and analyses
- Analyzing a design problem
- Design with the support of the CAD system Creo
- Reading technical documentation
- Robot programming
- Processing of drawing documentation
- Designing robotic workplaces
Study Aims
The study aims to deepen the theoretical knowledge from the master's study, to understand the context, and to combine this knowledge to acquire a mechatronic comprehensive approach to the creation of robotics and
mechatronic systems in the field of production, research, and development as well as in the field of service activities. Students are widely trained in the field of innovative procedures applied in industrial research and development.
Graduate's Knowledge
The field is focused on the comprehensive expertise of graduates, especially in the field of robotic equipment design.
The field is strongly interdisciplinary, graduates will gain relatively extensive knowledge in the field of creation and optimization of a mechanical subsystem with computer support, in the field of control and sensory emphasis is placed on the latest technical and software means of control, environmental perception, and human communication and in the field of drive subsystems. knowledge of new electric, hydraulic, and pneumatic drives and their applications. The study aims to deepen the theoretical knowledge from the master's study, understanding the context and combining this knowledge to acquire a mechatronic comprehensive approach to the creation of robotics systems both in field
production and service activities.
Graduate's Skills
Graduates will master the methodology of scientific work in the field of applied research and development of industrial and service robots and their applications, with a significant application of the mechatronic approach to the development of these complex technical systems. In the field of creating and solving innovative tasks, graduates will master the basic methodological and scientific procedures, and a wide range of students are trained in the field of innovative procedures, applied in industrial research and development.
Graduate's General Competence
Graduates can evaluate new knowledge and ideas in the field, taking into account the long-term social consequences of their use, plan large-scale activities of a creative nature and obtain and plan resources for their implementation, solve ethical problems related to creative activity or use of its results. Graduates of the field can clearly and convincingly communicate their knowledge in the field to other members of the scientific community at
international level and the general public.
Career Opportunities
Professions
- Researcher
- Research team leader
- Controlling manager
- Scientific researcher for process control
- Research and development
- Academic staff member
- Production system engineer
- Project manager
Graduate's Employment
Graduates will be employed in research and development teams working in the field of industrial and service robotics and design offices dealing with the development and innovation of machines and equipment in the field of automation and mechanization of mechanical engineering in general.