GENERAL INFORMATION

INSTITUTE OF CYBERNETICS

at Tallinn University of Technology

Founded in 1960 as an institute of Estonian Academy of Sciences, associated with Tallinn University of Technology in 1997.

AREAS OF RESEARCH

APPLIED MATHEMATICS. Approximation methods, inverse problems, stochastic programming.
MECHANICS. Nonlinear dynamics and wave propagation, non-destructive stress analysis (photoelasticity and acoustodiagnostics), cardiac dynamics.
PHOTOELASTICITY. Residual stress in glass, integrated photoelasticity, stress field tomography, hybrid mechanics, glass stress measurement technology.
COMPUTER SCIENCE. Mathematical foundations for computer science, mathematical logic and constructive mathematics, automated program synthesis, knowledge-based software engineering, specification and verification of real-time software, software systems.
CONTROL SYSTEMS. Non-linear and robust control systems, modeling of control systems, learning and planning in robotic systems, formal testing and verification methods for distributed and embedded systems.
LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY. Formal models for natural languages, Estonian phonetics, speech analysis and synthesis, speaker recognition.

STAFF

As of Dec 31, 2008 academic staff (66 persons) included 4 members of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, 6 DSc, 27 PhD, 17 candidates of sciences, and 26 MSc. Technical staff 42 persons.

LATEST ACHIEVEMENTS

Latest achievements of the Institute are reflected in publications:

THE STRUCTURE OF THE INSTITUTE OF CYBERNETICS

(confirmed by director's order from Nov 30, 2009 No. 1-2/28, [2009_struktuur.pdf])