František Novotný's research while affiliated with Technical University of Liberec and other places

... The acoustic method uses acoustic sensors to monitor the robot's position, but it is susceptible to environmental noise and requires high sensitivity of the acoustic sensors. Moreover, when a robot stops running due to unexpected factors, it cannot be located [9,10]. The electromagnetic wave method uses magnetic sensors to receive electromagnetic wave signals emitted by the pipeline robots for localization with little external interference [11][12][13]. ...

... Although abrasive filament brushes have been successfully used for manual and automated applications, including burr removal [1,2], edge rounding [3], polishing [4,5], and frosted glass [6,7], they show poor consistency of machining quality due to the fast wear of the nylon filament [8]. To improve the disadvantage of existing brush-type surface finishing tools, the ceramic fiber brush has been developed and applied to deburring parts, showing better durability and machinability [9,10]. ...

... Fe-based alloys used in the automobile industry have undergone dramatic development with particular effort for achieving an ideal balance of strength, cost and formability [1,2]. Based on the techniques combining the manufacturing process optimization [3] and the structural design of body parts [4,5], the advanced high strength steels (AHSSs) have played a significant role in the lightweight activities [6][7][8]. Though the production of the first-generation automotive steel is quite economical, like dual phase (DP, realizing mass production in 1983) and transformation induced plasticity (TRIP) steels, yet unfortunately the corresponding product of strength and elongation (PSE) was unsatisfactorily below 20 GPa⋅%, which mainly due to their low plasticity [9]. ...

... However, different perspectives have been proposed on the availability and protectiveness of such an alumina layer. Previous studies on Fe-Al alloys indicate that the Al-containing alloy is capable to form Al 2 O 3 layer in molten glass and thus slows down the corrosion rate [16,17]. However, Abdullah [18] found that Ni-8Al-28Cr alloy cannot be used in molten glass because of the extremely high solubility of Al 2 O 3. ...

... Axinte et al. [12] pointed out that belt polishing is preferred for its high material removal rates, and bob polishing can represent the only engineering solution allowing small-radii geometrical access. Rotating polishing tools can take various forms, such as abrasive cap tools [13], polyurethane elastomer (PUE) tools [14], shape adaptive grinding (SAG) tools [15], rubber-based bonnet tools [16], flap wheel tools [17], and brush tools [18]. The common characteristic of the above polishing tools is that they all have a certain degree of compliance. ...

... The methodology, which is very useful for defining the extent of oxidation attack, is based on the compass method used to describe a dividing line (boundary curve or borderline) [25,26,[30][31][32][33][34]. The used methodology is described in more detail in [25]. ...

... On the basis of the calculation using the finite-element method, three principal limit states can be defined (Figure 9) for the selected type of the active suction cup of the holding system which correspond to the suction cup contact profile depending on the level of external radial force according to the force analysis carried out in detail in Ref. [22]. ...

... The platform frame is connected with four legs by means of pivoted cranks. Each leg is fitted with suction cups and an individual electric rotary servo drive [16]. ...

... However, the fractal dimension does not substitute other tools like statistics; the dimension provides additional information about the data. Previous research [15,[20][21][22][23][24] shows that fractal dimension in conjunction with statistics can be used as a useful and powerful tool for an explicit, objective and automatic description of production process data (laboratory, off-line and potentially on-line). ...

... digital, classical photographs, images from electron microscopes), time series (e.g. analyses for monitoring and control systems) (9) and topological one dimensional dividing lines (10) (e.g. profiles, roughness and the dividing line between light and shadow). ...