M. Marcanik’s research while affiliated with Tomas Bata University in Zlín and other places

Recently, the interest in development of service robots highly increases. The annual turnover in this area is estimated to a number close to 17 milliard Euro in the past years. The annual turnover could rise to 0.1 billion Euro by 2020 by IFR considering 30 % growth every year. Investments are expected to flow into all areas related to service robotics, mainly into the development of assistant robots for seniors and the handicapped people, health monitoring and surgical robots, robots in agriculture, pilotless drones and helicopters and ground vehicles without a driver. Very promising years seems to be coming for all the new and already existing companies focused on this area with their software and sensor engineers together with producers of important accessories.

The expanding capabilities of today’s microcontrollers and other devices lead to an increased utilization of these technologies in diverse fields. The automation and issue of remote control of moving objects belong to these fields. In this project, a microcontroller Raspberry Pi 2B was chosen for controlling DC motors and servo-motors. This paper provides basic insight into issue of controlling DC motors and servo-motors, connection between Raspberry and other components on breadboard and programming syntaxes for controlling motors in Python programming language.

Nowadays technology enables using of small devices to control complex systems. These devices (microcontrollers) can provide enough performance to substitute personal computers (PC). The two most known microcontrollers (Arduino and Raspberry) are connected together to one system. The article provides insight into the issue of inputs and outputs and their control for educational purpose.

The contribution serves as a preview of the OFDM modulation signal, which is used in cellular and other wireless networks. We look closer on this problem and we are subsequently discussed general topics. That include an issue of mobile networks in their general concept and also more insight on the network 4 and 5 generations. Within the network 4 generations, namely LTE and LTE-A is approximated architecture and properties of these networks. In a 5-generation networks that reach into realization in the future, we have discussed concepts of architecture and other features.

The contribution describes the basic principles of measurement and the use of global positioning systems, focusing on the most widely used system NAVSTAR, including used protocols. It deals NMEA protocols-which today ranks among the most widespread GPS system, RINEX-which is an interpretation of "raw" data, these systems, and RTCM-which is an alternative for NMEA with the difference that is much used in the GLONASS system.

The begin of this article is about biometric systems. Where writers tried to describe the basic division of Biometric systems. Following part of article will be focused on sensors issues. Where are given simple labels of scanners and 3D scanners. The next part of this article showing description of scanner usage in biometric systems (face identification, finger print, etc…). This article is focused on understanding of biometric scanning.