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PhD Student
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Education:  

2023 - 2026 Ing. (=M.Sc.)

2023 Bc. 

Cybernetics and robotics, FEE, Czech Technical University in Prague, supervised by Tomáš Báča
 

Cybernetics and robotics, FEE, Czech Technical University in Prague, supervised by Tomáš Báča

     
Projects:  

TOMSNAV

FlightForge

Topological Multi-modal and Semantic Navigation for Aerial Vehicles


Advancing UAV Research with Procedural Generation of High-Fidelity Simulation and Integrated Autonomy

     
Research Interest:   Volumetric Mapping, Localization, Machine Learning in place recognition, Language based navigation
     
Research stays:   2023 - Polytechnique Montreal - MRASL under the supervision of Jerome Le Ny
     
Publications:  
  1. David Čapek, Jan Hrnčíř, Tomáš Báča, Jakub Jirkal, Vojtěch Vonásek, Robert Pěnička and Martin Saska. FlightForge: Advancing UAV Research with Procedural Generation of High-Fidelity Simulation and Integrated Autonomy. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 2025. URL PDF code BibTeX

    @inproceedings{capek2025flightforge,
    	title = "FlightForge: Advancing UAV Research with Procedural Generation of High-Fidelity Simulation and Integrated Autonomy",
    	author = "\v{C}apek, David and Hrn\v{c}\'{i}\v{r}, Jan and B\'{a}\v{c}a, Tom\'{a}\v{s} and Jirkal, Jakub and Von\'{a}sek, Vojt\v{e}ch and P\v{e}ni\v{c}ka, Robert and Saska, Martin",
    	year = 2025,
    	booktitle = "IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)",
    	pdf = "data/papers/capek2025flightforge.pdf",
    	url = "https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2502.05038",
    	code = "https://github.com/ctu-mrs/flight_forge"
    }
    
  2. Michal Werner, David Čapek, Tomáš Musil, Ondřej Franek, Tomáš Báča and Martin Saska. Kilometer-Scale GNSS-Denied UAV Navigation via Heightmap Gradients: A Winning System from the SPRIN-D Challenge. In 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA). 2026, . PDF, DOI BibTeX

    @inproceedings{wernerGNSSDenied2026,
    	author = "Werner, Michal and \v{C}apek, David and Musil, Tom\'{a}\v{s} and Franek, Ond\v{r}ej and B\'{a}\v{c}a, Tom\'{a}\v{s} and Saska, Martin",
    	booktitle = "2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA)",
    	title = "Kilometer-Scale GNSS-Denied UAV Navigation via Heightmap Gradients: A Winning System from the SPRIN-D Challenge",
    	year = 2026,
    	pages = "",
    	doi = "",
    	pdf = "data/papers/2026_ICRA_Werner.pdf"
    }