Michal Werner

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Position:
PhD Student
Room:
KN:E-224
Education:   2020 - Bc. (=B.Sc.) Cybernetics and robotics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague
   

2023- Ing. (=M.Sc.) Open Informatics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague

   Master's thesis - Sensor Fusion of Source of Ionizing Radiation onboard a Group of Unmanned Drones (pdf)
PhD research topic:   Semantic Navigation for Aerial Robots in GNSS-Denied Outdoor Environments

Research Interests:

   GNSS-denied localization in outdoor environment, Scene Graphs, Prior maps, Semantic navigation
Projects:   

 

TOMSNAV: Topological Multi-modal and Semantic Navigation for Aerial Vehicles

SPRIND Fully Autonomous Flight 2.0 Challenge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publications:  

  1. Michal Werner, Tomáš Báča, Petr Štibinger, Daniela Doubravová, Jaroslav Šolc, Jan Rusňák and Martin Saska. Autonomous localization of multiple ionizing radiation sources using miniature single-layer Compton cameras onboard a group of micro aerial vehicles. In 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 2024, 5710-5717. PDF, DOI BibTeX

    @inproceedings{wernerComptonRadiation2024,
	author = "Werner, Michal and B\'{a}\v{c}a, Tom\'{a}\v{s} and \v{S}tibinger, Petr and Doubravov\'{a}, Daniela and \v{S}olc, Jaroslav and Rus\v{n}\'{a}k, Jan and Saska, Martin",
	booktitle = "2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)",
	title = "Autonomous localization of multiple ionizing radiation sources using miniature single-layer Compton cameras onboard a group of micro aerial vehicles",
	year = 2024,
	pages = "5710-5717",
	doi = "10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10802808",
	pdf = "data/papers/IROS_2024_compton_Werner_final.pdf"
}

  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"
}