Centre Foundation

Information technologies are a driver of technology progress and society development. Future developments will most likely occur in the current bottleneck of information technologies, which is the production, representation, processing, interpretation, and application of information about the real world. Cybernetics integrates the fields that continuously widen this bottleneck. Cybernetics provides mathematical models of complex phenomena and applies these models in cognition, control, and decision-making. That is why cybernetics has been selected among the priorities of the National Research Programme.Cybernetics is a multidisciplinary field. Consequently, the individual disciplines have sometimes been progressing in isolation. Similarly, the results obtained have been applied in different industries, sometimes with a certain waste of effort.The Centre for Applied Cybernetics integrates the national research potential in this field. The proposed project links well-established research teams in academia with agile, small and medium industrial enterprises. The research done in the Centrel includes a spectrum of activities, from basic and applied research to industrial realizations. The companies involved are able to use the research results before they are published in journals and discussed at conferences. At the same time, the industrial companies involved will be able to influence the research focus at the Centre.

Centre for Applied Cybernetics was established on July 1, 2000 based on the project LN00B096 supported by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic within the programme of Research Centres. The Head of the Centre and Principal Investigator is prof. Ing. Vladimír Kučera, DrSc., Dr.h.c. The founding subjects are Czech Technical University in Prague, Brno University of Technology, Institute of Computer Science, v.v.i. - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, CertiCon a.s., Cygni spol.s r.o., Neovision s.r.o., UniControls a.s., Camea s.r.o.

Centre for Applied Cybernetics won a support of the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic once more for the years 2005 – 2009 within the programme of Research Centres under the code 1M0567.