Vladimír Bobál (Prof. Ing. CSc.) graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Brno University of Technology in 1966. He received the CSc. (Ph.D.) degree in Technical Cybernetics at the Institute of Technical Cybernetics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava. From 1969 he has worked as a Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor and now Professor in the Department of Automatic Control at the Faculty of Technology, Tomas Bata University in Zlín. His research interests are adaptive control systems, system identification, multivariable systems and CAD for self-tuning controllers. He has published over 190 contributions in scientific journals and conference proceedings (in English and Czech), 7 textbooks and 1 monograph (in Czech).

Adaptive Control Systems.- Process Modelling and Identification for Use in Self-tuning Controllers.- Self-tuning PID Controllers.- Algebraic Methods for Self-tuning Controller Design.- Self-tuning Linear Quadratic Controllers.- Computer-aided Design for Self-tuning Controllers.- Application of Self-tuning Controllers.

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