LABUST has taken part in many scientific research projects relating to underwater systems and technologies in various roles. This includes numerous international (FP7, H2020, ONRG, INTERREG,...) as well as national projects.
We are announcing the following open positions:
For the full Job Announcements please click on the above links.
The deadline for applications for the positions is June 1st, 2023.
Interested candidates should contact us at nikola.miskovic@fer.hr.
In May 2023 LABUST participated in the annual Undersea Medicine - Deep Submergence Biomedical Development Program Review hosted jointly by ONR and NAVSEA. The program review was held from May 9-11 in National Harbor, Maryland USA. After four years of virtual presence, we finally got the chance to present in person recent accomplishments from the domain of diver navigation, physiological monitoring and human-robot interaction underwater done on project ROADMAP – Robot Aided Diver Navigation in Mapped Environment. Particularly interesting were the Q&A sessions where scientific accomplishments were discussed directly with end users, medical doctors, divers, companies and academics.
From the 14th to the 18th of May, the MASK project had its first trials in Baška, Krk Island, Croatia. These took place during the 16th Baška GNSS Conference: Technologies, Techniques and Applications Across PNT and the 3rd Workshop on Smart Blue and Green Maritime Technologies. The program included a series of icebreaking games, educational robotics workshops and tests with robots at the hotel pool. Seven different robots were tested throughout the week and most tests took place with five robots working at the same time. Missions included navigation in a polygon, wall following, circle around an obstacle and picking up objects. As the project is dedicated to environmental protection, the objects to be picked were protection masks and plastic bottles. Moreover, images were collected to train Artificial Intelligence (AI) to detect and classify these objects. Due to bad weather, trials at sea were reduced but students had the opportunity to test the robots during a storm with low visibility and waves making the trials realistic and challenging. As only 10 students could travel, remote testing took also place for the students involved in the project that could not attend in person. In addition, the project was presented during the conference to a wide audience and students participated in the presentation by providing their feedback on the project trials to the attendees. This provided high visibility to the project and at the same time allowing the students to interact with professionals from the field. In particular, attendees had the opportunity of controlling the robots but they were taught by the students on a reverse train the trainers experiement.
The eighth event in the series "PhD Days" of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing took place on Thursday, June 1, 2023.
The event was primarily intended for doctoral students in Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, but it was open to all interested individuals.
The program included a poster session featuring research posters from third-year doctoral students, a central part of the program, and workshops for doctoral students. In the central part of the program, five doctoral students awarded with the "Josip Lončar" Silver Plaque and the "Končar" award for the most successful doctoral dissertations defended in the academic year 2021/2022, presented their experiences in doctoral research and their careers after completing their doctoral studies.
The InnovaMare Final conference event took place on May 12th 2023 in Šibenik, Croatia, marking the culmination of nearly 3 years of collaborative activities.
The Conference, organized by the Croatian Chamber of Economy, aimed to engage stakeholders (authorities, universities, industry, and citizens) in a long-term strategy to boost the Adriatic Sea’s Blue Economy. It focused on leveraging the digital and green transition. The centrepiece of the event was the presentation of InnovaMare’s achievements, with a special focus on the newly created Digital Innovation Hub (DIH). The DIH will foster the development of innovative marine technologies to combat Adriatic pollution.
The conference includeed speeches from key stakeholders and a panel discussion – introduced by video demonstrations of DIH InnovaMare – on the innovation ecosystem for the blue economy. Students who attended the InnovaMare Academy received certificates for participating. The ceremony followed practical demonstrations of technological innovations, including a remote demonstration and livestream from the LABUST lab by Anja Babić and Martin Oreč, and visits to the Living Lab Adriatic Sea pilot sites.
MUZZA's highly successful 2nd Week of Science, held from May 19th to 21st at the Zagreb Fair, showcased the impactful work of the non-profit association MUZZA in popularizing science, technology, culture, education, and sustainable development of society. With an impressive turnout of over ten thousand visitors, the event, led by President Mrs. Đurđica Protić, exemplified MUZZA's commitment to promoting science and technology.
Featuring a diverse array of activities, including 60 workshops and nine discussion panels on trending scientific topics, the event engaged attendees of all ages. LABUST, along with other laboratories from FER, and 40 exhibitors representing universities, schools, companies, and science and technology-related associations, contributed to the event's success.
LABUST members Juraj Obradović, Kristijan Krčmar, Matko Batoš, Luka Mandić, and Vladimir Slošić showcased interesting demonstrations, such as point cloud from LiDAR, simulated boat driving, underwater exploration, and remote robot control from a 2 km distance at LABUST's pool.
MUZZA's president Mrs. Đurđica Protić also took the opportunity to unveil her visionary plan for an interactive museum called MUZZA, aimed at making science, technology, culture, education, and sustainable development more accessible to the public.
For the sixteenth year in a row, companies and students had a unique opportunity to meet at the Job Fair, which was held on May 17 and 18, 2023 at the Zagreb Fair. The Job Fair was organized by FER, the FER Career Center, the FER Student Union (SS FER), and the Electrical Engineering Students Club (KSET). This year 152 companies participated. Moreover, 17 workshops, 24 invited talks, and various round table sessions were held. LABUST members Vladimir Slošić and Nadir Kapetanović presented our laboratory’s research projects and job opportunities.
First field trials of the SOUND project took place in Šibenik from May 15 to May 18 2023. Teams from Haifa, Zagreb, and Šibenik gathered datasets at a fish farm, tested the initial floater prototype, and deployed an acoustic recorder for long-term monitoring of shipping noise in the Šibenik aquatorium.
Students from the Technical school Ruđer Bošković in Zagreb visited the LABUST laboratory facilities on Monday, April 1st as part of their extracurricular activity focusing on autonomous systems. They had a chance to test their Chasing Gladius Mini S ROV in the laboratory pool as well as to get to know LABUST projects and vehicles. A video report by prof. Robert Ljubek can be seen on YouTube.
Today Riccardo Caponi from Deep Trekker visited our lab to showcase two of their ROVs, namely DTG3 and Pivot. We had an opportunity to operate the vehicles and test various functionalities, but also exchange ideas and experiences in marine vehicle development and sensor integration.
On the 10th of May 2023, LABUST participated in the event "The Adriatic Sea as a new laboratory for blue economy" organised by the Embassy of Italy in cooperation with the Croatian Chamber of Economy. Assistant Professor Fausto Ferreira participated in the Marine Science and Technology in the Service of Marine Conservation roundtable and both INNOVAMARE and MARBLE projects have been introduced and discussed as excellent examples of cooperation between the two countries. Besides the leading partner of INNVOMARE, Croatian Chamber of Economy, the MARBLE partners mareFVG, University of Trieste, National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS) and DIH Agrifood Croatia attended the event and contributed to the discussions. The recording of the event is available on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EYc7xMlA9w
As part of the ROADMAP project, our members Vladimir Slošić and Luka Mandić visited project partners at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute in Auckland, New Zealand for field trials. The trials primarily focused on data collection for precise underwater localization, while monitoring diver vital signs. Divers, equipped with the underwater drone in their hands, were monitored using various sensors while swimming in common diving patterns underwater. Data collected from three divers will be used to correlate the swimming patterns to the diver's movement to achieve better swimming models of the human body.
Our members Nadir Kapetanović and Kristijan Krčmar participated in the "ROBOTIMA – my sea robotics" event organized in the scope of Innovamare project. The event was held in Trieste, Italy on May 3rd, 2023. Nadir gave a presentation about LABUST's current research activities, and later on, held a demo of the ASV H2Omni-X.
As a part of the SOUND project and a collaboration with the University of Haifa, from March 7th to March 10th 2023, Martin Oreč from LABUST visited the National Institute for Oceanography and the Underwater Acoustic & Navigation Lab which is led by prof. Roee Diamant. The goal of this visit was to share knowledge and analyse floater vehicles developed during earlier projects. Martin had a chance to observe the advantages and disadvantages of the available floater design and make conclusions and gather ideas for future work, as well as tour the facility and see equipment, technologies, and teams who work in the institute.
Martin Oreč and Benjamin Pavišić from LABUST visited Industrial Fair in Celje (SLO), the largest fair in the fields of machine manufacturing and toolmaking, welding, and cutting in SE Europe.
On 30th and 31st of March MARBLE study visit in Greece was held at the Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο - National Technical University of Athens. Partners presented the work that has been done so far for each work package. The plan for the upcoming events was presented, as well as the plan for the next 4 months.
On Wednesday 22 March and Thursday 23 March 2023, Bari hosted the Roadshow on blue technologies and smart solutions for the Adriatic Sea, organized by ARTI – the Apulian Regional Agency for Technology and Innovation as the partner of the InnovaMare project.
Anja Babić and Kristijan Krčmar held demonstration activities of marine innovative robotic solutions implemented within the project by LABUST, FER and our partner CNR as part of the workshop “Cooperation, blue technologies and smart solutions for the sustainability of the Adriatic Sea”.
MASK project partner Bedekovčina High School visited LABUST, FER on 21st March 2023. The students had to opportunity to learn more about LABUST projects during a presentation by Assistant Professor Đula Nađ. After, they had the opportunity of driving different types of robots in LABUST pool, both surface vehicles and ROVs. The students considered it a fun activity and are looking forward to the more challenging task of remoting control the same ROVs, an activity forecast in the Erasmus+ MASK project. The remote control of ROVs will act as preparation to the trials at sea in May in Baška, that will take place during the 16th Baška GNSS Conference, organized by the MASK project partner University of Rijeka, Faculty of Maritime Studies.
From the 30th of January to the 3rd of February 2023, our lab member, Ph.D. student Vladimir Slošić, participated in Winter School on Underwater Network simulations at the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padova, organized by assistant professor Filippo Campagnaro and full professor Michele Zorzi. During winter school, participants were introduced to DESERT - Underwater Framework for underwater network communication simulations developed at the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padova. Participants also learned how to integrate the DESERT on the real EvoLogics modems and use it for the emulation and analysis of the network.
On 27th of February LABUST researcher Anja Babić successfully defended her doctoral dissertation and received a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering. Anja’s thesis is entitled „A hyper-heuristic approach to achieving long-term autonomy in a heterogeneous swarm of marine robots“.
On 22nd and 23rd of February we had a pleasure to visit Sarajevo as a part of MARBLE study visit at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering Sarajevo. Thank you for hosting us!!
As part of the UWIN-LABUST project, the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies in collaboration with the IEEE Croatia Section - Robotics and Automation Chapter, the IEEE OES University of Zagreb Student Branch Chapter and IEEE Life Member Affinity Group - Croatia is happy to invite you to the lecture
"Intelligent and Networked Robots - Navigating into the Future"
held by dr. sc. Marco Bibuli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Ingegneria del Mare, Genova, Italy. The lecture will take place on Monday February 27th, 2023. at 16:00 in the Grey Hall at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER). The lecture is in English and is open to all interested participants.
The lecturer’s CV and the summary of the lecture can be found below.
From February 15th to 17th, 2023 LABUST in Zagreb hosted prof. Nuno Alexandre Cruz of the University of Porto, Portugal. As part of his expert visit, he gave a lecture titled "Science-based Innovation in Marine Robotics" at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. Prof. Cruz then participated in several days of invaluable planning, brainstorming, and know-how exchange with UWIN-LABUST researchers.
From February 13th to 16th, 2023 LABUST in Zagreb hosted Liav Nagar and Alik Chebotar from the University of Haifa, Underwater Acoustic & Navigation Lab. Liav and Alik participated in extensive planning and conceptualising of both hardware and software systems related to the SOUND project.
On February 13th, 2023 LABUST in Zagreb hosted dr.sc. Neven Cukrov of the Institute Ruđer Bošković in Zagreb. As part of his expert visit, Neven participated in extensive brainstorming and experiment design related to the SOUND project, leveraging his expertise and connections to plan field trials and provide access to relevant deployment spots in fisheries across the Adriatic. Neven also participated in discussions of potential future projects related to marine noise pollution.
The SOUND project kickoff meeting took place on Friday, January 13th 2023. Project coordinator prof. Roee Diamant (University of Haifa), project partner representatives prof. Nikola Mišković (UNIZG-FER) and dr.sc. Neven Cukrov (Institut Ruđer Bošković), as well as researchers Anja Babić and Martin Oreč laid the groundwork for the first year of the project.
The UWIN-LABUST research group has been selected as a grant recipient of Schmidt Marine’s Global Fisheries Technology Initiative! This support will help us increase the sustainability of fisheries around the world. Coordinator prof. Roee Diamant, University of Haifa, Israel, describes the project concept as a series of low-cost devices that coordinate with each other to capture better acoustic data for assessing the diversity and quantity of fish populations.
On 31st January 2023, LABUST employees successfully inspected the part of the Krk LNG evacuation pipeline between the mainland and island Krk. The pipeline was visually inspected with the Blueye ROV as part of a regular pipeline inspection for Plinacro.
As part of the UWIN-LABUST project, the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies in collaboration with the IEEE Croatia Section - Robotics and Automation Chapter and IEEE OES University of Zagreb Student Branch Chapter is happy to invite you to the lecture
"Science-based Innovation in Marine Robotics"
held by Prof. Nuno Alexandre Cruz, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal. The lecture will take place on Wednesday February 15th, 2023. at 11:00 AM in the Grey Hall at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER). The lecture is in English and is open for all interested participants.
The lecturer’s CV and the summary of the lecture can be found below.
As part of the UWIN-LABUST project, the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies in collaboration with the IEEE Croatia Section - Robotics and Automation Chapter and IEEE OES University of Zagreb Student Branch Chapter is happy to invite you to the lecture
"How to explore the world of marine fauna using underwater acoustic signal processing"
held by Prof. Roee Diamant, Dept. of Marine Technologies, University of Haifa, Israel. The lecture will take place on Wednesday February 15th, 2023. at 10:00 AM in the Grey Hall at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER). The lecture is in English and is open for all interested participants.
The lecturer’s CV and the summary of the lecture can be found below.
On the 26th of November 2022, LABUST opened its doors to participants of Open Doors Day at FER. Many visitors, mainly children and high schoolers with their parents had fun at LABUST where LABUST employees presented their work with a short presentation. After the presentation, participants could try driving a surface drone made at LABUST.
We are announcing the following open positions to be part of the research group for Internet of Underwater Things (within Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies) established in the framework of the Horizon Europe project UWIN-LABUST:
For the full Job Announcements please click on the above links.
The deadline for applications for the positions is March 15, 2023.
Interested candidates should contact us at uwin-labust@fer.hr.
MARBLE kick-off meeting was held on 12th of January 2023 in Zagreb, Croatia at Faculty of Electrical engineering and Computing. The MARBLE project is Interreg ADRION project coordinated by UNIZG-FER. Project Coordinator Nikola Mišković welcomed the attendees and wished a successful start of the project.
UWIN-LABUST project started on January 1, 2023. In the following 5 years, and with the help of ERA Chair Prof. Roee Diamant and his team, we aim to achieve excellence in the broad application of Internet of Underwater Things through three main strategic research domains: underwater sensor communications, underwater acoustic signal processing, and underwater collaborative autonomy. Stay tuned to learn more about our activities and results!
The Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies in collaboration with the Centre of Research Excellence for Data Science and Cooperative Systems ZCI-DATACROSS, IEEE Croatia Section - Robotics and Automation Chapter and IEEE OES University of Zagreb Student Branch Chapter is happy to invite you to the lecture
"How Sound Helps us "See" Underwater"
held by Prof. Roee Diamant, Dept. of Marine Technologies, University of Haifa, Israel. The lecture is taking place on Monday April 4th, 2022. at 11:00 AM in the Grey Hall at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER). The lecture is in English and is open for all interested participants.
The lecturer’s CV and the summary of the lecture can be found below.
Members of the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST) attended the 13th International Interdisciplinary Field Workshop of Maritime Robotics and Applications Breaking the Surface - BtS held from 26 September to 3 October 2021 in Biograd na Moru, Croatia, traditionally organized by LABUST.
LABUST members were again actively involved in the programme. Đula Nađ, Igor Kvasić, and Luka Mandić held the ADRIATIC tutorial, Fausto Ferreira joined INNOVAMARE project team to present the project objectives and achievements, Nadir Kapetanović held a HEKTOR demonstration, and Ivan Lončar, Natko Kraševac, and Juraj Obradović had a tutorial on Marine Unity Simulator.
At this year's edition of MIPRO 2021 - International Convention on Information, Communication and Electronic Technology, LABUST members and UNIZG FER students presented a paper on "Underwater ROV software for fish cage inspection", co-authored by Goran Borković, Matej Fabijanić, Maja Magdalenić, Andro Malobabić, Jura Vuković, Igor Zieliński, Nadir Kapetanović, Igor Kvasić, Anja Babić, and Nikola Mišković. The reaserach for the paper was supported by HEKTOR and INNOVAMARE projects.
The conference was held in hybrid form from September 27 to Ocotober 1, with live sessions in Opatija, Croatia.
Nadir Kapetanović presented a paper at OCEANS 2021 - Conference and Exposition held September 20-23, 2021 in a hybrid form, with in-person sessions in San Diego (USA) and Porto (Portugal).
The paper "Towards a Heterogeneous Robotic System for Autonomous Inspection in Mariculture" was co-authored by Nadir Kapetanović, Đula Nađ, and Nikola Mišković.
OCEANS is the bi-annual event for global marine technologists, engineers, students, government officials, lawyers, and advocates, organized by the partnership of Marine Technology Society and the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society. The industry thought leaders gather for four days to highlight relevant topics and current trends, while creating a community of learners and influencers who consistently advance research, practices, and policies for the marine field.
From September 14 to 16, 2021, LABUST's InnovaMare project team organized a workshop on spin-offs in Solaris, Šibenik. This is the forurth module on business education. The programme consisted of invited talks on a mixture of lectures about the basics of spin-offs, talks by spin-offs coming from Croatia and Italy, and talks by local spin-off/start-up companies. On the last day a visit to the Incubator for new technologies "Trokut Šibenik" was organoized. Participants also visited Development Innovation Center "AluTech". Both places were founded to promote inovations, entrepreneurship, research and development.
PhD Day at FER, that took place on Tuesday, 6th July 2021, featured also a virutal poster-section via SpatialChat platform where the visitiors of the virutal event had an opportunity to vote for the best PhD poster.
Phd poster by Ivan Loncar - Acoustic localisation of underwater sensors using cooperative unmanned marine vessels was voted the best Audience Choice PhD poster.
The paper Heterogeneous autonomous robotic system in viticulture and mariculture – project overview was presented by Jurica Goričanec at the 16th International Conference on Telecommunications held June 30-July 2, 2021 in Zagreb.
The paper was co-authored by most of the HEKTOR team – Jurica Goričanec, Nadir Kapetanović; Ivo Vatavuk; Ivan Hrabar; Antonia Kurtela; Marina Anić; Goran Vasiljević; Jaksa Bolotin; Valter Kožul; Dario Stuhne; Marko Cukon; Niksa Glavić; Stjepan Bogdan; Matko Orsag; Gordan Gledec; Tamara Petrović; Nenad Antolović; Bernard Kozina; Nikola Mišković and Zdenko Kovačić. The paper was presented within the conference workshop Smart technologies for sustainable agriculture.
From 27 to 29 June 2021, HEKTOR team members visited again the project end-user, Cromaris fish farm (Ugljan, Croatia) to collect new datasets for the estimation of sea bream and sea bass biomass in fish cages. They also collected a dataset for biofouling and net damage detection algorithms. The data was collected using DJI Phantom, ARIS sonar and Blueye Pro ROV.
On June 16, 2021, LABUST had its first official visit. Third graders from the Elementary School Ivan Gundulic from Zagreb paid a visit to the new laboratory. They were introduced to the new space and LABUST activities.
The students showed great interest in learning about different kinds of underwater and surface vehicles, from autonomous ships to micro unamanned submarines. LABUST member Dula Nad, who organized the visit, also prepared a presentation to demonstrate more clearly the work of the lab. For the interactive and fun part of the visit, LABUST members organised a challenging water obstacle racing using the ASV.
On 9 and 10 June 2021, the Ministry of Tourism and Sport and Institute of Agriculture and Tourism organized a conference 'Sustainable tourism strategies for preservation and valorisation of the coastal and marine area heritage of the Mediterreanean' within the project INHERIT. The two-day conference was held in the national park Brijuni.
On 9 June, LABUST member Nadir Kapetanovic gave a presentation as a guest speaker on the results of LABUST's Interreg Mediterreanean project BLUEMED, and also took the opportunity to present activities of the laboratory and the ERDF project HEKTOR.
The conference program (in Croatian) is available here.
The EUMarineRobots (EUMR) project is glad to announce the tenth “Coffee with EUMR” webinar on Thursday, 24 June 2021 at 11:00 CET. This webinar will be hosted by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and will consist of two short talks presented by NOC. The first talk titled "Preparing AUVs for operations in extreme environments: development of a multi-platform obstacle avoidance framework" will be given by Dr. Francesco Fanelli and the second talk titled "An overview of the Oceanids C2" will be given by Alvaro Lorenzo-Lopez.
The link to join the meeting and more details available here: 10th 'Coffee with EUMR'
LABUST members Fausto Ferreira and Nadir Kapetanović participated in the virtual meet-up event ISPRS WGII/9 'Underwater Data Acquistion and Processing' organised by International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Nadir Kapetanović gave a short presentation on LABUST activities and equipment, and introduced the main concepts of the HEKTOR project that LABUST team is currently implementing.The event was held June 8 and 9, 2021 featuring many international speakers.
The programme followed participants' requests to intentionally mix the topics to get a more comprehensive understanding of innovative research outcomes as well as needs and gaps within the community.
The EUMarineRobots (EUMR) project is glad to announce the ninth “Coffee with EUMR” webinar on Thursday, 10 June 2021 at 11:00 CET. This webinar will be hosted by the University of Girona and will consist of two short talks presented by the University of Girona. The first talk titled "Allowing untrained scientists to safely pilot ROV's: Early collision detection and avoidance using omnidirectional vision" will be given by Eduardo Ochoa and the second talk titled "Extrinsic visual-inertial calibration for motion distortion correction of underwater 3D scans" will be given by Miguel Castillón.
Please use the link below to join the meeting:
InnovaMare Consortium has published a schedule of the upcoming events in the next period of project implementation; Train the Trainers and business modules; Living Lab Training; Desing Thinking workshops; Breaking the Surface (BtS) - international summer field workshop on marine robotics and applications.
More details available here: InnovaMare Events 2021.
The EUMarineRobots (EUMR) project is organizing eighth “Coffee with EUMR” webinar on Friday, 28 May 2021 at 11:00 CET. This webinar will be hosted by the Marine Institute and will consist of a short talk presented by the TNA end user Ulster University and a short talk given by the University of Limerick. The first talk titled "Advanced Mapping of Complex Marine Structures" will be given by Dr. Chris McGonigle, Ulster University. The second talk is titled "Inverse Kinematics Approach to Underwater Vehicle Manipulator Systems" and will be given by Philippe C. Santos from the University of Limerick.
More details and the link to join the coffee session: Eighth 'Coffee with EUMR'
On 21 May 2021, 1-3 PM UTC, the Networking Friday (organized by Atlantic International Research Centre) with EUMarine Robots will present an overview of the H2020 project EU Marine Robotics Research Infrastructure Network (EUMR), which will be organized around the three types of activities of the project:
EUMR addresses the H2020 call topic INFRAIA-02-2017: Integrating Activities for Starting Communities by mobilizing a comprehensive consortium of 15 partners which, in turn, mobilized stakeholders from different Member States, Associated Countries and other third countries to achieve the following main objective: open up key national and regional marine robotics research infrastructures (RIs) to European and worldwide researchers ensuring their optimal use and joint development to establish a world-class marine robotics integrated infrastructure.
You can register here: Webinar Registration
Within the INNOVAMARE project, LABUST is organizing the Conceptual Design Workshop on 19 May 2021, from 3 pm to 6 pm. The invited speakers come from companies and have senior responsibilities in either software or hardware development of robots. Each speaker comes from a different region (Croatia, Norway, and the USA) with very different business environments and each company has a very different story (Kickstarter funding, spin-off from a university, etc). The workshop will be mostly practical, with focus on presentation of use cases.
The program and the link for the workshop can be found here.
In the context of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing and the Embassy of Portugal in Zagreb are co-organizing the event "Robotics and AI in Society: Impacts and Questions Raised".
The event will take place on the 20th of May 2021, starting at 4 PM, in a hybrid form - online, and for the limited number of attendees at FER. Please join us online via the MS Teams, and on Sli.do for questions. The program of the event is available here.
This event is related to the priorities of the Portuguese Presidency, in particular to the priority of fostering Europe’s recovery leveraged by the climate and digital transitions. The goal is to showcase how robotics can be useful for the citizens and to discuss the implications of the introduction of robotics and AI in large sectors of society/workplace.
More details at: Robotics and AI in Society: Impacts and Questions Raised
Within ERASMUS + project IMPACT, this Thursday, 13 May 2021, project partners are organizing a workshop 'Understanding Venture Capital'.
The workshop starts at 4pm via Zoom platform featuring a talk by Jakob Gajšek, the co-founder of the startup accelerator ABC where he was in charge of further raising funds for the accelerator portfolio. In 2018, he took over the position of Executive Director of the Ljubljana University Incubator, where he focused on creating a new generation of startups that emerge from research.
Read more and get the link to join the workshop at: Understanding Venture Capital
The EUMarineRobots (EUMR) project is organizing the seventh “Coffee with EUMR” webinar on Thursday, 13 May 2021 at 10:30 CET. This webinar will be hosted by the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) and will consist of a short talk presented by FER and a short talk given by the Interuniversity Center of Integrated Systems for the Marine Environment (ISME). The first talk titled "Advancing diver-robot interaction capabilities" will be given by Igor Kvasić, FER. The second talk is titled "Cooperative geolocalization and CNN-based Automatic Target Recognition for underwater autonomy" and will be given by Matteo Bresciani and Leonardo Zacchini from the ISME nodes of Pisa and Florence respectively.
To join the meeting, visit Seventh Coffee with EUMR.
These trials organized in the scope of the CUV-ME project (Cooperative Unmanned Vehicles in the Maritime Environment) took place April 19-24, 2021 in Split, Croatia and had inter-vehicle underwater localization and communication testing as the main objective. Degaussian station at Marjan peninsula, managed by the Republic of Croatia Armed Forces (OSRH) was a great location to work at with a full logistical support (location, work tent, divers, boats etc.) provided by OSRH.
The sea trials were a great opportunity for all vehicles to be deployed at the same time and to work cooperatively. The primary objective was to assess the current navigational accuracy of all the mentioned underwater platforms, and the ability to communicate between surface and underwater platforms. Another objective of these trials was to record datasets for diver detection in forward looking sonar imagery and for the detection of diver presence by detecting diver breathing/bubbles sounds recorded by a hydrophone.
The trials were successful at providing a proof of concept for cross-country USV-AUV communication and data exchange. Data collection was completed successfully with shown reproducibility and repeatability. Additionally, capability to exchange underwater mapping data formats between the University of Zagreb and OSRH was validated.
Our researcher and PhD student Nadir Kapetanović has been invited to join today's webinar 'Customize your setup with the Blueye SDK and API' as a guest speaker presenting LABUST's Blueye SDK-ROS2 integration.
The webinar is organized by company Blueye to present stories from their customers who have utilized the SDK for controlling multiple drones simultaneously and others that have improved their post-processing sequence of the media and log files via the API. Nadir is joining Blueye's Senior Software Engineer Andreas Viggen to show how to get started with the SDK.
More information available here.
EDIT: Webinar talk available now - Blueye webinar
The Adriatic Sea is facing major impacts from overfishing and pollution: solid waste, direct discharge of wastewater and oil pollution are key negative factors for the degradation of coastal and marine ecosystems. The Interreg Italy-Croatia InnovaMare and Sushi Drop projects aim at responding to the challenges of sustainability in the Adriatic Sea with innovative solutions, whose collaboration is marked by the roundtable to be held on 27 and 28 April online and in Zadar, Croatia.
The sixth “Coffee with EUMR” webinar is taking place on Friday, 23 April 2021 at 10:30 CET. This webinar will be hosted by Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and will consist of a short talk by NTNU and two short invited talks by end-users of TNAs performed at NATO STO CMRE.
The first talk titled "Risk management and supervisory risk control of AUVs for Arctic operations" will be given by Jens Einar Bremnes. The two other short talks will be given by two TNA end-users at invitation of NATO STO CMRE. The second talk is titled "Adaptive power allocation in multi-user acoustic channels" and will be given by Dr. Antony Pottier, and the third talk titled "Channel State Information acquisition in bidirectional underwater acoustic communication systems" will be given by Dr. Beatrice Tomasi, both from the Higher Institute for Electronics and Digital Training (ISEN).
Please use this link to join the meeting.
More details at EUMR website.
ONR-G project ADRIATIC remote trials were performed in the period March 29-April 8, 2021 in collaboration with the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
The goal of the trials was to test novel diver-robot interaction modalities developed within the project. The scenario consisted of a diver equipped with sensors embedded in the diving suit and a gesture recognizing diving glove in a pool in Auckland, and the D2 AUV in the LABUST pool in Zagreb collaborating together. The diver used the smart diving glove to recognize gestures and send them acoustically to a poolside PC. The commands are then sent over a http server to a poolside PC in Zagreb and again translated to acoustic commands transmitted to the underwater vehicle. The vehicle executed simple movement actions mapped to these commands. The underwater cameras, as well as the cameras mounted in on the vehicle were streamed to Auckland to provide situational awareness, and the diver received a haptic feedback through the glove when a gesture was recognized and sent successfully.
Considering the distance between ABI and LABUST laboratories and the current travel and collaboration restrictions in force, it was practically impossible to do a joint experiment in person. Introducing existing and new technologies towards enabling such remote collaboration experiences promotes equipment and infrastructure sharing and help crossing barriers standing in the way of science.
The EUMarineRobots (EUMR) project is glad to announce the fifth “Coffee with EUMR” webinar on Friday, 9 April 2021 at 10:00 CET. This webinar will be hosted by Instituto Superior Técnico (IST-ID), University of Lisbon and will consist of a short talk by IST-ID and a short invited talk by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Palakkad. The first talk titled "Cooperative distributed estimation and control of multiple autonomous vehicles for range-based underwater target localization and pursuit" will be given by Nguyen Tuan Hung. The second talk is titled "Simulation-based semi-empirical comparative study of underwater vehicle platform with fixed and vectored thruster configurations" and will be given by Dr. Santhakumar Mohan.
Please use this link to join the meeting.
For the abstracts of the talks and short speakers' biographies please follow: Fifth "Coffee with EUMR" webinar
In the framework of InnovaMare education module, University of Trieste (UniTS) is organizing an online three-days “Train the Trainers” to be held from 6-8 of April 2021. The training is focused on open innovation strategies and management.
The lectures will be given by two experts - Nicola Redi and Alberto Di Minin. Nicola Redi has a 20+ years of experience in translating innovations into the market through venture capital investments and corporate R&D responsibilities. He is currently managing the first ever technology transfer fund focused on Industry 4.0 technologies. Alberto di Minni is Full Professor of Strategy at the Institute of Management - Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, and Research Fellow with the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE, University of California Berkeley).
Detailed agenda available here: Train the Trainers.
The fourth “Coffee with EUMR” webinar is to be held on Monday, 22 March 2021 at 11:00 CET. This webinar will be hosted by the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) Institute of Marine Engineering (INM) and will consist of a short talk by CNR-INM. The talk will be focused on the SWAMP Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) and will be given by Angelo Odetti, Massimo Caccia and Marco Bibuli.
Please use this link to join the meeting.
For the abstract of the talk and short speakers' biographies please follow: Fourth "Coffee with EUMR" webinar
The online round table of the project InnovaMare "Blue technology - Developing innovative technologies for sustainability of Adriatic Sea” within the Interreg Programme Italy – Croatia 2014-2020, ended with over 100 participants. The initiative, organized by Unioncamere Veneto, was addressed to Italian and Croatian policymakers and stakeholders in order to facilitate the debate, the transfer of knowledge and the exchange of good practices within the field of the protection of the Adriatic Sea through the use of technologically advanced robotics and new monitoring systems.
More information available here.
The EUMarineRobots (EUMR) project is glad to announce the third “Coffee with EUMR” webinar on Friday, 12 March 2021 at 14:30 CET. This webinar will be hosted by the AIR Centre and will consist of two short talks invited by the coordinator University of Porto in collaboration with the Swedish Maritime Robotics Centre (SMaRC).
The first talk is titled “Neural representations and generative models for sonar data”, which will be given by Dr. Nils Bore, from the Swedish Maritime Robotics Centre (SMaRC), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. In the second talk, Miguel Aguiar, also from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, will talk about "Optimizing autonomous underwater vehicle routes with the aid of high resolution ocean models".
For more details about the speakers and to read the talks abstract, please visit EUMarine Robots website.
The second “Coffee with EUMR” webinar is to be held on Wednesday, 24 February 2021 at 11 AM CET. The second webinar will be hosted by PLOCAN and will consist of two short talks by invited PLOCAN collaborators.
The first talk is titled “A Mediterranean eddy characterization using Glider and altimetry data” and will be given by Dr. Luísa Lamas from the Hydrographic Institute. The second talk is titled “Identification of the dynamics of biofouled underwater gliders” and will be given by Dr. Enrico Anderlini from the University College London.
Webinar link: Click here to join the meeting
For more details about the speakers and to read the talks abstract, please visit EUMarine Robots website.
The EUMarineRobots (EUMR) project is launching a series of webinars “Coffee with EUMR” starting in February! Organized by LABUST as one of the project partners, these webinars will present the best of the research performed within the scope of EUMR and related initiatives. Short talks by early career researchers are envisioned to happen biweekly covering all EUMR partners.
The first talk titled “Augmented reality techniques for aided remote underwater manipulation based on real time 3D perception” will be given by Dr. Matheus Laranjeira from IFREMER on Friday 12 February at 10 AM CET.
More details available at EUMarine Robots website.
Unioncamere del Veneto will organize an online round table on 18 and 19 February 2021, as part of the InnovaMare strategic project “Blue technology - Developing innovative technologies for sustainability of the Adriatic Sea”. The meeting is addressed to the Italian and Croatian policy makers and stakeholders, in order to facilitate the debate, the transfer of knowledge and the exchange of good practices in the strategic areas of blue economy and blue technologies.
Registration is possible until 17/02/2021 here.
Additional information:
LABUST members have been active in 2020 presenting papers in (virtual) conferences as well. The conferences and papers are the following:
LABUST members have been very active this year doing research and publishing journal papers. The most recent ones are:
Nađ, Đula; Mandić, Filip; Mišković, Nikola, Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Diver Tracking and Navigation Aiding. Journal of marine science and engineering, 8 (2020), 413, 20
Nadir Kapetanović; Branko Kordić; Antonio Vasilijević; Đula Nađ; Nikola Mišković, Autonomous Vehicles Mapping Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia. Remote Sens. 2020, 12(22), 3683
We are pleased to announce that Head of LABUST, Prof. Nikola Mišković was awarded IEEE Croatia Section Award for Outstanding Engineering Contribution for exceptional engineering contribution in the field of marine robotics, particularly innovative underwater robotic systems and autonomous surface vehicles. Congratulations!
At the International Innovation Summit of the Innovamare project, which took place online from October 28 to 30, world-renowned scientists, experts and entrepreneurs discussed innovation systems, marine pollution and underwater robotics and sensors.
Four Croatian nexperts also contributed to the discussion: Nikola Mišković from the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, expert in the field of innovation ecosystem Emir Džanić from Funifier from Zagreb, expert in coastal conservation and protection, and Vjeran Piršić from the Eco Kvarner Association and Ivona Cetinić, a Croatian scientist at NASA who studies and protects the oceans.
The full article (in Croatian) is available here: Jadran je ozbiljno ugrožen, ali inovacije bi mogle pomoći u njegovoj zaštiti
The University of Trieste is organizing an online International Innovation Summit within the InnovaMare project. It will be a three-day, international, online event, which will be held on October 28, 29 and 30, 2020 through the ZOOM platform.
The International Innovation Summit consists of 3 "technical" webinars and 3 "popular" webinars. The three leading topics are:
It is organized in 6 webinars in 2 categories:
– three technical webinar (TECH MEETING), focused on the themes of underwater robots and sensors, sea pollution and innovation ecosystems
– three popular webinar (POP MEETING), focused on sea and planet health, climate change and pollution
It will be an event with 6 webinars, 3 top topics, 6 subtopics, 2x50 minutes with top speakers - world experts, astronauts, entrepreneurs, academics, scientists…
Schedule is available here in this link as well as registration for participation, https://www2.units.it/innovamare/. Participation is free of charge and it is possible to take part in as many as you wish.
We hope you will find this event interesting and join us to participate to this event to hear top worlds speekers and be informed what is going on in this industry!
Before the meeting, you will receive instructions how to connect to ZOOM platform.
For all additional questions about the organization of the online International Innovation Summit, write to the following address: innovamare@hgk.hr
The Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST) at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG FER) is looking to recruit a team for the implementation of the project “Development of Autonomous Unmanned Multipurpose Ship”. The team consists of:
The main goal of the project is to develop and demonstrate a fully autonomous unmanned multi-purpose ship that will be capable of autonomous navigation in real operational conditions.
The project is coordinated by Brodosplit who are in charge of building the ship, while LABUST team will be in charge of:
All details available in the JOB ANNOUNCEMENT.
17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, L'Aquila (Italy) - DCAI was held online October 7th-9th, 2020. It is an annual forum that brings together ideas, projects, lessons, etc. associated with the conference topics, and their application in different areas. On October 8, Nadir Kapetanovic present research results in a dedicated session on "Assessing the current state of a shipwreck by using autonomous marine robots: Szent Istvan case study" via Zoom meetings platform.
Members of the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST) attended the International Interdisciplinary Field Workshop of Maritime Robotics and Applications Breaking the Surface - BtS held from 27 September to 5 October 2020 in Biograd na Moru, Croatia.
Two lectures were held by LABUST members, Dula Nad and Fausto Ferreira. PhD students Anja Babic, Igor Kvasic, Ivan Loncar, Nadir Kapetanovic and Frane Rogic actively participated in the BtS programme as well having given presentations on their PhD topics and research.
During the BtS week, hands-on demostrations and field trails for various projects were carried out, respectively CroMarX, subCULTron, HEKTOR and InnovaMare. The trials aimed at testing the equipment and algorithms, followed by data collection and processing the week after the workshop.
LABUST members published two new journal papers over the last couple of months. The papers were published in the open access journals Applied Sciences and Sensors:
On 22 July 2020 at 10 a.m. CET the Croatian Chamber of Economy (lead partner) and Institute Ruđer Bošković will host an online kick-off conference to celebrate the start of the strategic project Innovamare, funded by Interreg Cross Border Cooperation Italy-Croatia Programme.
InnovaMare project main objective is to develop and establish an innovation ecosystem model in the area of underwater robotics and sensors for monitoring and surveillance sector, bringing cross-border collaboration between science and private sectors on a higher level.
InnovaMare project is worth 5.6 milion euro, with a duration of 30 months. It is managed by a consortium of 14 partners from Croatia and Italy, composed of universities, maritime institutions, business support institutions, SMEs, maritime cluster, local and regional authority. All together in one mission: sustainability of the Adriatic Sea.
The project is coordinated by the lead applicant, the Croatian Chamber of Economy, and implemented together with the following partners: in Italy, Regional Union of the Chambers of Commerce of Veneto Region, University of Trieste, ARTI - Apulia Regional Agency for Technology and Innovation, National Research Council - Institute of Marine Sciences – Cnr Ismar, Maritime Technology Cluster Fvg, Communication Technology Srl, National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics, in Croatia, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing – University of Zagreb (LABUST), University of Dubrovnik, University of Rijeka, Geomar Ltd, and Šibenik Knin County.
The purpose of the kick-off conference is to present the project and to gather partners and stakeholder’s insight, opinion and project perception.
Introduced by Tomislav Radoš, Ph.D., Vice President for Industry and Energy, Croatian Chamber of Economy, the conference will host three different thematic rooms: "Sea pollution as an economic problem" led and moderated by Ruđer Bošković Institute and National Research Council - Institute of Marine Sciences - Cnr Ismar; "Technology Transfer as Key Element For Innovation" (moderators University of Rijeka and University of Trieste); "Creating innovation ecosystem for a stronger quadruple helix" (moderators Croatian Chamber of Economy and Regional Union of the Chambers of Commerce of Veneto Region).
Registration:
This year's IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems - IROS 2020 will take place in October at the Caesars Forum Conventional Center in Las Vegas, USA.
LABUST's Anja Babić will be participating with a presentation of the paper "Vehicle-in-the-loop framework for testing long-term autonomy in a heterogeneous marine robot swarm", co-authored with Goran Vasiljević (LARICS) and Nikola Mišković. The paper, which describes the development and field testing of decision-making algorithms implemented on the subCULTron robot swarm for the purpose of environmental monitoring, has also been accepted for publication in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters journal and is available via IEEE Xplore.
On 8 May 2020, Ivan Lončar successfully held a public presentation of the proposed dissertation topic titled “Acoustic localisation of underwater sensors using cooperative unmanned marine vessels”, which resulted in the approval of the expected original scientific contribution. Professor Nikola Mišković has been confirmed as his mentor. The committee members were the following:
On 3 March 2020 at the Plaza Event Centre in Zagreb, a roundtable meeting on artificial intelligence in processing of text was held within the project 'Establishment of an Integrated System for Managing the Official Documentation of the Republic of Croatia' moderated by Prof. Jan Snajder. Nikola Mišković, UNIZG-FER's Vice Dean for Science participated in the event that brought together around 100 participants. The roundtable was followed by an interesting discussion with a large number of questions from the audience. More information can be found at: https://lnkd.in/dCK_ZVq
On 29th of February 2020, LABUST's member Dula Nad attended the First European Robotics Talent Festival. The festival took place in Varazdin, Croatia. He gave a talk on underwater robotics to an audience of primary and secondary school students. The festival also included student competitions in various mobile robotics disciplines. The festival was organised by Varazdin County, European Talent Centre Croatia and Centre of Excellence in New Technologies.
LARICS members attended the three-day Robotics Fair 2020 in Ljubljana that took place from 11th to 13th February 2020. Robotics is an international trade fair dedicated to industrial robotics and unmanned systems. The event offers the exhibitors a platform for presenting their range of robot technologies in both industrial and service robots sectors.
The Fair was organised by ICM Slovenia. LARICS members attended the event as representatives of three UNIZG FER laboratories: LARICS, LABUST and LAMOR, under the common brand ROBOTICS FER, next to some of the top tech companies in this field. The visitors had an opportunity to learn about current projects of UNIZG FER's laboratories', their research, innovations and equipment.
All the exhibitors also had excellent opportunities to strengthen their image, increase brand awareness and establish new business relationships. The content-rich accompanying programme included roundtable discussions, presentations and workshops.
On 8 January 2020, Ivana Mikolić held an invited talk within the 5th year course Organisation and Management at University of Zagreb Faculty of Economics and Business. Ivana was invited by the Dr. Rebeka Danijela Vlahov together with Andrej Hanzir (LEAP Summit) to share knowledge and experience in managing EU projects. After the introductory presentations, a panel discussion was initiated between the guest lecturers and the students.
The website of IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) University of Zagreb Student Branch Chapter has been published.
IEEE OES UNIZG Student Branch Chapter promotes the objectives of the society around the world through networking, conferences and publications with a focus on the future through extensive support of our student and young professional members.
The new website contains all information about this Student Branch Chapter, its activities and plans, and gives you the latest news.
To visit the website, please follow: http://ieeeoesunizg.fer.hr/
On 15 January 2020, Prof. Nikola Mišković and Prof. Stjepan Bogdan held an invited lecture called ‘Heterogeneous Mobile Robots Mapping the Present and the Past’ at the Time Machine Croatia Info Day.
This event kindly invited the interested public and experts in the field of humanities, culture, science, history, IT and the research sector to learn more about the Time Machine project as well as the Time Machine Organisation.
The Time Machine Project is by far the most ambitious and far-reaching project ever undertaken using Big Data of the Past. Revolutionising the way we experience European history and culture, the project is an international collaboration to build a map of European history that spans thousands of years.
We are proud to share the news that Ivana Mikolic was announced third best project manager in Croatia for the project Breaking the Surface! Ivana received the award at the Project Management Awards 2019 ceremony held in Esplanade Zagreb Hotel on December 17, 2019. This is great motivation for future endeavours! Congratulations, Ivana!
Wishing everyone a successful and prosperous new year! The 12th edition of Breaking the Surface workshop will be held from 27 September to 4 October 2020 in Biograd na Moru, Croatia. So, save the date! Looking forward to seeing you all!
LABUST member Nadir Kapetanović participated in the final meetings of BLUEMED project held in Volos, Greece, from 19 to 20 December 2019. On 20 December 2019, he also participated in a dissemination event organized by the Region of Thessaly, Lead Partner of the BLUEMED project. This event aimed at networking and dissemination of the project results to the BLUEMED stakeholders.
On 24 October 2019, President of the Republic of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović presented Nikica Kokir, Department of Control and Computing Engineering associate, with the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the figure of Katarina Zrinska for the noble and humanitarian act of donating blood more than 100 times.
On 22 November 2019, at the celebration of the Day of FER, Filip Mandić, PhD was awarded the Silver Plaque "Josip Lončar" for academic year 2018/2019 for particularly successful doctoral dissertation and research work titled "Control of autonomous surface marine vessels for underwater vehicle localization using single range acoustic measurements" under the mentorship of Prof. Nikola Mišković, PhD. The award was presented by FER's Dean Prof. Gordan Gledec, PhD.
LABUST, LARICS, and LAMOR did a great job representing UNIZG-FER at the University of Zagreb Fair 2019 held between November 21 and 23, 2019 at the Student Centre Zagreb, and at the Open Door Day at FER on Saturday, November 23, 2019. Future students and visitors had the opportunity to talk to the members of our laboratories, check the equipment, interact with Pepper, compete against Baxter in solving a Rubik’s cube, and try out navigating the autonomous surface platform H20mniX in an indoor pool! The visitors were also able to learn about the laboratories’ current projects, activities, and prospects of studying at FER.
Check out photos in the Gallery.
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the U.S. Embassy Zagreb organized the reception and a closed screening of the Apollo 11 Documentary Film at the Kaptol Boutique Cinema. Project leaders of grant projects funded by the Embassy Matko Orsag and Ivana Mikolic attended the event accompanied by the new addition to the project team Ana Golec. Deputy Chief of Mission Victoria Taylor hosted the reception and in the welcome address reminded us of two Croatian-Americans who were part of the Apollo 11 mission – Mike Vucelic and George Skurla.
We are proud to announce that the head of our laboratory Nikola Mišković has just been appointed full professor by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. Congratulations from the whole LABUST :)!
LABUST was presented by Nadir Kapetanović at the International Conference in Management of Accessible Underwater Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites, “Dive in Blue Growth”. The conference was held in the Acropolis Museum in Athens from 16 to 18 October 2019. It was organized by the University of Patras in collaboration with Region of Thessaly, Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, ATLANTIS Consulting and the active participation of BLUEMED partners, under the auspices of Η.Ε. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos. A paper named “Opto-acoustic 3D Reconstruction and Virtual Diving on the Peristera Shipwreck”, co-authored by Đula Nađ, Nadir Kapetanović, and Nikola Mišković, was presented at the conference.
LABUST member Ivana Mikolić gave a lecture on Project Management at the University of Dubrovnik on 10.10.2019. During the 3-hour lecture, over 30 participants of various professions had a chance to hear about all phases of a successfully managed project, i.e. how to search the right programme and call for a project proposal, write and submit the proposal, implement and monitor project activities, budget, time schedules and work packages, and many other topics. After each module of the lecture, a case study was presented to the attendees, in which they actively participated and also asked for advice on their current issues.
LABUST members Nadir Kapetanović, as the Secretary of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (IEEE OES) University of Zagreb Student Branch Chapter (UNIZG SBC), and Ivana Mikolić, as IEEE OES Young Professional, visited University of Dubrovnik (UNIDU), Croatia, on 10.10.2019. The visit was planned as a dissemination and outreach activity aimed to increase SBC's visibility and to present to the students from UNIDU all the opportunities, both professional and social, that await them in case they are interested in joining and volunteering in the SBC.
Members of the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST) attended the international interdisciplinary field workshop on maritime robotics and applications Breaking the Surface - BtS held from 29 September to 5 October 2019 in Biograd na Moru, Croatia.
During the BtS week, field trial preparations for the CroMarX project were carried out. The trials aimed at testing cooperative navigation and localization between the surface and underwater agents. Data collection was carried out during the following week with great success.
During the BtS workshop that was organized by CroMarX associates Ivana Mikolić, Antonio Vasilijević, and Nikola Mišković, a hand-on demonstration by Anja Babić and Ivan Lončar was conducted showcasing the system with surface platforms and multiple underwater agents. Đula Nađ, together with other junior CroMarX associates, attended the rest of the workshop lectures to further theoretical and applied knowledge about marine systems and connected software frameworks.
Our member Ivan Lončar attended the 12th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles (CAMS 2019) held in Daejeon, Korea from 18 to 20 September 2019. He presented his paper titled "Sensitivity Analysis for TDoA-Based Localisation in Underwater Sensor Networks", as well as the joint work on the project Adriatic under the title "Towards Advancing Diver-Robot Interaction Capabilities".
Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies is looking for financial administrators, project administrators, event organizers and/or dissemination coordinators!
LABUST has many projects and events funded by the EC, NATO, ONR, and national institutions, and now, we are looking for someone who will help us run them and organize with the help of and under the supervision of our laboratory manager.
Responsibilities for the successful candidate(s) will include (depending on the given job role):
Qualifications:
If you are interested in the position, please send a short application email with attached CV to this address until 30th of September 2019. Candidates will be contacted shortly after their application for an interview.
Contact: Ivana Mikolić, 091 604 7559
On Wednesday, 26 June 2019, members of LABUST and LARICS departed to Venice for the subCULTron project workshop. During the first week, the preparations for the experiments for detecting anoxia were conducted using aPads and aMussels robots. The testbed used for preparations was situated in Fusina camp near Venice in a relatively controlled environment near the docks. With the beginning of the following week, the team moved to the pontoon anchored near the island Sant'Angelo della Polvere in the Venice Lagoon. Near the pontoon, the robots were tested and the experiments were conducted in a less controlled and harsher environment more similar to the real life scenarios.
Nadir Kapetanović represented LABUST at biannual meetings of BLUEMED project partners which were held in Atlantis Consulting headquarters in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 25.06.2019. Partners presented the achieved results and discussed plans for the opening of the Knowledge Awareness Centres in underwater archeological pilot sites in Greece, Italy, and Croatia.
Also, BLUEMED with the support of Atlantis organized an all-day event European Maritime Day "One Sea. A Common Culture. A Great Future" on 26.06.2019. It is an initiative for the promotion of the project objectives and the capitalization of its results. During this event, MoUs were signed and a press conference with national reporters and journalists took place for the further dissemination of the BLUEMED project. Furthermore, through this event, local and international stakeholders had the opportunity to promote EU projects or other initiatives, which encourage the protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH), the reinforcement of the diving tourism and the enhancement of the public awareness on these important matters.
Our team members Antonio Vasilijević, Nadir Kapetanović, and Nikica Kokir took part in a survey expedition of the SMS Szent István shipwreck on 9-11.06.2019. The shipwreck is located in Croatian territorial waters, approx. 8 nmi out of island Premuda. This was a collaboration of the Croatian Conservation Institute and LABUST, with the logistical backup provided by the Croatian Special Police Forces. LABUST members provided bathymetry services with the in-house developed ASV named PlaDyBath, as well as side-scan sonar and visual surveys of the area by the AUV Lupis. Detailed visual inspection by the ROV named BLUEROV2 for the photogrammetric reconstruction of the ship's stern was also planned but unfortunately had to be postponed due to bad weather.
LABUST' PhD students Anja Babić, Nadir Kapetanović and Igor Kvasić attended IEEE-OES and MTS OCEANS 2019 Marseille Conference & Exhibit held from 17th until 20th June and presented our newest research results.
Anja Babić, as the Chairwoman of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (IEEE OES) Student Branch Chapter (SBC) University of Zagreb was chosen to be on the panel of judges for the OCEANS 2019 Student Poster Competition.
Nadir Kapetanović presented his paper Side-Scan Sonar Data-Driven Coverage Path Planning: A Comparison of Approaches in a poster session and Igor Kvasić presented the preliminary results of his PhD thesis research in the paper titled Convolutional Neural Network Architectures for Sonar-Based Diver Detection and Tracking.
Dr. Edin Omerdić from the University of Limerick, Ireland, presented a joint research paper titled Multi-Modal Supervision Interface Concept for Marine Systems as a result of collaboration of University of Zagreb and University of Limerick through the H2020-TWINNING project EXCELLABUST.
They also participated in workshops, tutorials and lectures and got the chance to discuss the newest marine robotics topics from their research fields with world-renowned experts from both academia and industry.
We're proud to announce that our team member Filip Mandić has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation! The dissertation was titled "Control of autonomous surface marine vessels for underwater vehicle localization using single range acoustic measurements" and mentored by Assoc. Prof. Nikola Mišković. Filip has well earned his PhD degree and we wish him all the best and a lot of success in his future work!
Đula Nađ went to EMRA'19, held on 15 and 16 May in Toulon, France, to talk to the workshop's attendees about the BLUEMED project, its results, current work plan and future ideas. In a lecture titled "BLUEMED – Plan, test and coordinate underwater museums, diving parks and knowledge awareness centers," he gave the participants an overview of the project and what its main goals are. The workshop's program can be found here.
EMRA’19 (Workshop on EU-funded marine robotics and applications) was held in Toulon, France on 15th and 16th May 2019, and was hosted by the EUMR project partner IFREMER. The event brought together a diverse range of speakers from ongoing EU-funded research projects, industry stakeholders, policy makers and end-users. Over two days in a single track conference programme, 25 speakers presented their work and products with time for discussions and networking. LABUST's work and projects were presented by Đula Nađ (BLUEMED) and Antonio Vasilijević (H2O Robotics). The workshop program is available here.
The General Assembly of the H2020 “EUMarineRobots” project took place in Toulon (France) on May 14. The meeting was organized by project partner IFREMER (Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer). The partners discussed the current status of the project and assessed the progress of the work that has been carried out so far and will be in the future. During the meeting, the 2nd TNA call for proposals was open for public. Trans-National Access (TNA) is one of the main project activities that provides access to the partner’s facilities for external users through a TNA calls. The meeting was attended by LABUST members Đula Nađ and Antonio Vasilijević.
The University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing presented itself in cooperation with the Croatian Military Academy at the Adriatic Sea Defense and Aerospace exhibition and demonstration, an event dedicated to defense, aerospace, cyber defense & homeland security. It was held in Split on 10th and 11th April 2019. Professor Zoran Vukić went there for LABUST and presented the autonomous surface platform H2OmniX, developed as part of the aPad project, which can be used for diver support, port security applications, shallow water mapping, and other applications related to homeland security.
Biograd na Moru will once again be host to Breaking the Surface, our international interdisciplinary field workshop on maritime robotics and applications held since 2009! This year's edition will be held from 29 September to 6 October 2019, and registration is already available via the event's official website. Early bird prices are available until July 1st, after which you can register at regular prices, and there are three categories - student, standard and corporate. More info on the event is available on the Breaking the Surface Facebook page or website.
On 7 May 2019, LABUST team member Nadir Kapetanović took part in the Sense and Sustainability International Conference on Archaeology and Tourism as part of the "Dive into the Past: Underwater Archaeology and Sustainable Tourism" section. Nadir held a presentation titled "New technologies for improving the diver experiece in underwater cultural sites" about some of the results of the BLUEMED project we are taking part in.
Our member Associate professor and UNIZG-FER Vice Dean for Research Nikola Mišković was a guest speaker on the Croatian National Television, appearing in the TV show Treći Element (Third Element) as an expert on Artificial Intelligence and robotics. In the episode titled "Artificial Intelligence - the End of Humankind", together with the other participants of the panel, he discussed the future of AI in the world and in Croatia, what advantages and future uses it will have, what problems may occur, what its impact on the job market will be and how the use will be regulated and defined by law. The whole episode can be found on the HRTi online service (in Croatian).
Earlier this month, LABUST team members Igor Kvasić and Đula Nađ visited our project partners from the Auckland Bioengineering Institute in New Zealand. Together we are working on researching new exciting human-robot interaction possibilities as part of our new project ADRIATIC - Advancing Diver-Robot Interaction Capabilities. We're looking forward to the next meeting and testing out the first prototypes this summer at Breaking the Surface 2019!
On Friday, 19 April 2019, members of LABUST and LARICS working on the subCULTron project made use of a sunny day in Zagreb to conduct field experiments with the aPads and aMussels. They went to the lake Jarun and tested the robots in a realistic environment, all in preparation for an upcoming anoxia workshop, which will be held in the Venice Lagoon in July of 2019. Take a look at a couple of pictures from lake Jarun!
On 16 APril 2019, the fourth PhD Day was held at our Faculty, where LABUST team member and third-year doctoral student Anja Babić took part in the poster section of the event and presented her PhD thesis titled "A hyper-heuristic approach to achieving long-term autonomy in a heterogeneous swarm of marine robots," along with the current results of the research done during her PhD studies. This poster was recognized and awarded as one of three particularly successful posters of the PhD Day poster section. We would like to congratulate Anja on the award and her research so far, and wish her success in her future work!
On 9 April 2019, representatives of the Croatian Ministry of Regional Development and EU Funds came to our Faculty to review the progress of the Interreg BLUEMED project, in which LABUST is a partner institution. They took a look at the laboratory, made sure all the equipment and documents were in place and finally concluded that the project is indeed going well and according to plan! We'd like to thanks the Ministry and hope to proceed with the project as successfully as we have so far. You can find a couple of pictures in the detailed news.
On 3 April 2019, the LABUST team was featured on Croatian National Television (HRT) as a segment in the first season of the TV show "Cronovatori" (Cronnovators), episode 8, where they talked about the subCULTron and aPad projects and their concrete results - the aPad and aMussel robots, as well as the CADDY - Cognitive Autonomous Diving Buddy project. This interesting episode is available via the HRTi service for registered users.
On 19 to 24 March, in Bucharest, Romania, LABUST was represented the European Robotics Forum 2019 as part of the robotics@fer.hr brand, which includes three robotics laboratories from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing: LARICS, LABUST and LAMOR. LARICS members went to Romania to represent all three laboratories and they brought some LABUST robots with them. Read more about it in the detailed news.
LABUST's project manager Ivana Mikolić went on 29th March 2019 to the LEAP Summit in Zagreb, Croatia, where she held a lecture at the EU & ME Stage titled "Increasing robotics research excellence with the EU". Ivana talked about her experiences in managing EU and Croatian projects for the laboratory, why they are important and how they can be used to advance our scientific and technological potential. Ivana also gave some recent examples of LABUST (and LARICS) projects to show how EU funding can successfully be applied in the context of robotics in Croatia and the EU.
The Croatian Agency for Mobility and EU Programmes (Agencija za mobilnost i programe Europske unije) has published a brochure titled Horizon 2020 Success Stories in Croatia, which features two of our H2020 projects - EXCELLABUST and subCULTron! We are proud to have taken part in these successful projects and we invite you to take a look at the brochure and read about subCULTron and EXCELLABUST, as well as other stories about successful projects in our country. You can find out about the teams working on Croatian projects, their funding, results and future plans.
On March 14, 2019, Antonio Vasilijević held a lecture titled "Breaking the Surface - New technologies for exploration and conservation of underwater archaeological heritage" at the Great Hall of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, as part of a cycle on Archaeology of Adriatic Shipbuilding and Seafearing. The authors of the presentation are professors dr. sc. Nikola Mišković and dr. sc. Antonio Vasilijević, both from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing of the University of Zagreb.
The programme booklet of "Archaeology of Adriatic Shipbuilding and Seafearing" is available for download via this link.
The Results in Brief article about our H2020 project aPad - New aquatic robot brings Internet of Things to marine environments has recently been published on the EU CORDIS website. The article is available to read in 7 EU languages and contains information on thea chieved results of the project, in this case a brief description of the technological innovation of the product and its commercial potential and use. You can find the full article and other information about the project here.
2018 has been a very successful year for all of us! We were enjoying every moment of it; we actively participated in plenty of conferences and workshops, explored new interesting places and meet new friends and partners. Join us for a look back at 2018's biggest moments - 12 months in 12 pictures.
In the detailed news content, you can look back and see how was 2018.
The famous Christmas market in Zagreb has just become one interesting event richer: On Wednesday, 19th December, 10-16h, visitors of UNIZG-FER will have the opportunity to enjoy mulled wine, tea and brownies or waffles, which are special because they will be served by - robots! This unusual event is organized by our friends from LARICS and the brand robotics@fer.hr with the goal of raising funds for the Autism Association Zagreb. We enthusiastically support this unusual and exciting event and hereby invite you to join us!
Autism, or autism spectrum disorder (ASD), refers to a broad range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech, and nonverbal communication. As part of the ADORE project, LARICS members worked with NAO robots to help diagnose this disorder in children. Because of this connection ASD, they chose this specific association to give the raised funds to. The robots Franka, Baxter, Pepper, and NAO will be taking part in the fun-raiser, but they won't be there just for show - Pepper will take your order, Franka will prepare it and Baxter will serve it to you. At the same time, the NAO robots will be taking care of the atmosphere. Overall, this event is an innovative chance for you to learn about robots, treat yourself and help a noble cause!
Nikola Mišković participated in the presentation of the results of the pre-study regarding the possibility of creating a science park in Croatia. The presentation was conducted in cooperation by Saab AB Group, Lindholmen Science Park from Sweden, Ericsson Nikola Tesla and UNIZG-FER on 13th December 2018, at UNIZG-FER.
The study was presented to the representatives from the Ministry of Science and Education, the Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts, the City of Zagreb, the Croatian Employers' Association, the Croatian Chamber of Commerce, the industry, the academic community and the support institutions from Zagreb, Osijek, Rijeka, and Split.
The H2020 project "Twinning coordination action for spreading excellence in Aerial Robotics - AeRoTwin", the H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics" and Centre of Research Excellence DATACROSS organized the Innovation management training on the topic of
"EU and Business R&D Project Management".
The training was held from 5th to 7th December 2018 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER) and given by following speakers: Vesna Torbarina (Croatian Chamber of Economy), Manuel Jiménez Díaz (Morera&Vallejo Group, Spain), Silvia de los Santos (CTA, Spain) and Matko Barišić (ABB, Norway).
During the three days of the workshop, participants learned a lot about H2020 projects, how to manage them, what expert profiles are, how R&D management works in a big company and how to choose the right calls for our EU projects.
On 5th of December 2018, our colleague Marin Bek from H2O Robotics presented our innovation the aPad to a jury of experts at the ICT 2018 event in Vienna, Austria. The innovation was competing in the European Commission's competition the Innovation Radar Prize 2018, in the category for Excellence Science. The winners were announced in the special award ceremony on the closing day of ICT 2018 and the Technical University of Denmark won the category for Excellent Science. Although we were not rewarded, it was a great honor to present our innovation to the experts composed of a panel of investors and entrepreneurs and also to be recognized by European Commision as one of the best European innovators.
Nikola Mišković, Antonio Vasilijević, and Đula Nađ participated at 2018 IEEE 8th International Conference on Underwater System Technology: Theory and Applications (USYS’18) held from 1st until 3rd December 2018 in the International Academic Exchange Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China. Nikola Mišković gave a plenary talk entitled “Cooperative and not-so Cooperative Marine Robotics” and Antonio Vasiljević presented the paper named “Autonomous Surface Vehicles as Positioning and Communications Satellites for the Marine Operational Environment - Step toward Internet of Underwater Things”.
At the Workshop on Marine Robots, which was held in the scope of the conference, Antonio Vasilijević gave an invited lecture named “Human Hearing and Marine Robotics” and Đula Nađ gave an invited lecture named “From Underwater Localization towards Diver-Robot Interaction”.
USYS’18 was an excellent occasion for LABUST team to disseminate our current R&D activities and to meet researchers, scientists, engineers, as well as industrial professionals from Asia.
The H2020 project "Twinning coordination action for spreading excellence in Aerial Robotics - AeRoTwin", the H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics" and Centre of Research Excellence DATACROSS will organize the Innovation management training on the topic of:
"EU and Business R&D Project Management"
which will be held from 5th to 7th December 2018 at Seminar Room of ZARI Department (C09) of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER) and by following speakers: Vesna Torbarina (Croatian Chamber of Economy), Manuel Jiménez Díaz (Morera&Vallejo Group, Spain), Silvia de los Santos (CTA, Spain) and Matko Barišić (ABB, Norway).
During the three days of the workshop, an overview of the H2020 program and its successor (Horizon Europe) will be given to the attendees. H2020 will be explained in more detail, as well as the tools provided by the European Commission for its management. Finally, further specific hints and ideas about managing H2020 projects will be discussed.
Attendees are kindly asked to fill out this Doodle poll to confirm their attendance.
More about the speakers and the training can be found in the detailed news content or here.
The University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER) hosted the Open Door Day on 24th November 2018. Igor Kvasić, the new member of LABUST team presented ongoing research activities and equipment. The event aimed at prospective students, their parents, and teachers to learn about the UNIZG-FER experience, to become familiar with available courses, research facilities and to talk to the current students, lecturers and researchers.
LABUST is participating at the University of Zagreb Fair 2018 as part of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER) among more than 30 faculties. University of Zagreb Fair 2018 is taking place at Student Centre Zagreb and it will last from 22nd November until 24th November 2018. Our members are presenting current projects and collaborative projects with other groups from UNIZG-FER. This year we set up a pool where visitors can operate our vehicles. We are expecting high attendance of high school students, young faculty students, and other interested parties. This is a great opportunity to attract young people in the world of science, particularly in robotics and underwater systems.
On 22nd of November 2018, Nikola Mišković, Vice Dean for Science at UNIZG-FER and Mihaela Vranić, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at UNIZG-FER took part in the daily TV show "Dobro jutro, Hrvatska" (Good morning, Croatia at Croatian national television) as guests, where they announced the Open Door Day event at UNIZG-FER and talked about academic and research activities at the Faculty.
As part of the expert visit within the H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics", Dr. Edin Omerdić from Centre for Robotics & Intelligent Systems, University of Limerick gave a tutorial titled "A real-time embedded evaluation board NI myRIO and its applications" on 15th - 16th November 2018 at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing.
The agenda, lecture descriptions, and materials used during the tutorial are available in the repository.
Nadir Kapetanović participated in BLUEMED – 5th biannual project meeting held from 12th to 13th November 2018 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. BLUEMED partners discussed project progress and issues. Nadir presented a progress report on WP4 testing activity - preparatory activities in pilot sites (Cavtat, Baia, Peristera, and Amaliapolis). After the meeting, project consortium visited the museum “Department of Archaeology in the western wing of the Saint Blaise Franciscan Monastery” in Pridvorje, Konavle.
The H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics" organized an Innovation management training on the topic of:
“Disruptive Business Models and cracking the code of Financial Forecasting"
given by Helena Deane, WestBic, Ireland. The training took place on Friday, November 16, 2018, in the Gray Hall of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER).
On 15th of November 2018, Ivana Mikolić and Matko Orsag from LARICS took part in the daily TV show "Dobro jutro, Hrvatska" (Good morning, Croatia at Croatian national television) as guests, where they talked about the European Robotics Week 2018, and how it will be manifested in Croatia.
On 15 November 2018, Ivana Mikolić, Ivan Lončar, and Igor Kvasić participated in the Implementation workshop of the Croatian Science Foundation held in the hall of the Rectorate of the University of Zagreb. The workshop was held within the framework of the European Social Fund project “Young Researchers' Career Development Project – Training of Doctoral Students”. The main topics of the workshop were guidelines in the implementation phase, submission of periodic reports, salary payments, EPP system and etc.
We did it together! Thanks to your votes, our Laboratory has been selected as one of 20 candidates for Innovation Radar Prize 2018 finals. The great finale will be held in the scope of ICT 2018 event in Vienna (4-6 December 2018) where the jury will decide the winner of each of the five categories. LABUST is competing in category “Excellent Science” - cutting-edge science underpinning tomorrow's technological advances. As a finalist, we will deliver a 3-minute pitch about our innovation, organisation and plans to our EU funded innovation deliver impact in the marketplace. The jury, a panel made of professionals with a track record in entrepreneurship and investment will award the most impressive pitch for each category and also choose the winner of the 2018 Innovation Radar "Grand Prix" Prize. The winners will be announced on the 6th of December in a special award ceremony on the closing day of ICT 2018.
Professor Zoran Vukić and Nadir Kapetanović participated at 2018 IEEE OES Symposium held from 6th November until 9th November 2018 in Rectory Building, University of Porto, Portugal. On 7h November, Nadir Kapetanović presented the scientific paper named "Towards Enhancing the Navigational Accuracy of UUUs Through Collaboration of Multiple Heterogeneous Marine Vehicles". The authors of the paper are Kapetanović, Nadir (UNIZG-FER), Nađ, Đula (UNIZG-FER), Mišković, Nikola (UNIZG-FER), and Vukić, Zoran (UNIZG-FER).
LABUST will be taking part in ERW 2018 under the robotics@fer.hr brand, together with our colleagues from LARICS and LAMOR! We will participate in the University of Zagreb Fair (22-24 November 2018) and present our work, equipment, projects, as well as opportunities for potential undergraduate, graduate and PhD students, researchers, teachers etc. Also, our laboratory will be open to the public during the Open Day event at UNIZG-FER (24th November 2018) and will show the visitors what it is like to work in our three laboratories. We are looking forward to these events and hope to see you there!
We are delighted to announce that LABUST has been selected as one of the top 50 innovators in the European Commission's "Innovation Radar Prize 2018" in the category of "Excellent Science" for aPad project. Voting is now open and it will be available until on November 12th, 2018. This prize category aims to recognise excellent scientific work, supported with EU-funding, that is emerging from laboratories around Europe and shows market promise.
You can vote for our Laboratory here.
The H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics" will organize the Innovation management training on the topic of:
“Disruptive Business Models and cracking the code of Financial Forecasting"
which will be held by Helena Deane, WestBic, Ireland. The training will take place on Friday, November 16, 2018, starting at 09:15, in the Gray Hall of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing.
More about the speaker and the lecture is available in detailed news content and here.
As part of the expert visit within the H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics", Dr. Edin Omerdić from Centre for Robotics & Intelligent Systems, University of Limerick will hold a tutorial on
"a real-time embedded evaluation board NI myRIO and its applications"
The two-day tutorial will start on Thursday, November 15, 2018, at 14:30 in the Gray Hall of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, and continue the next day on Friday, November 16, 2018, at 14:00 in the same place.
More about the speaker and the tutorial is available in detailed news content and here.
Antonio Vasilijević participated in the EUMR project meeting held on 30th September 2018, during the Breaking the Surface (BtS) workshop in Biograd na Moru, Croatia. Latest Work Package and deliverable progress were discussed as well as the work plan for the forthcoming period. Special attention was given to the first TNA (transnational access) call, just opened in the scope of the EUMR.
Partner UdG presented an animation video for the TNA promotion. The video is available here.
EUMR project has been also presented in the scope of BtS workshop by António Sérgio Ferreira (UPorto) with a lecture EUMarineRobots: The “Oprah” of Marine Robotics.
The EXCELLABUST project meeting was held in Biograd na Moru, Croatia on 4th October 2018 during the Breaking the Surface workshop. The meeting was attended by Zoran Vukić, Nikola Mišković, Ivana Mikolić (all LABUST), Edin Omerdić, Isela Ibrahimović, Daniel Toal (all UL), Marc Carreras (UDG) and Massimo Caccia (CNR). The conclusion of the meeting was the closure of the project and a general overview which has been done in the last three years.
In the scope of the 10th edition of Breaking the Surface, we organised an Innovation Tuesday, the whole day program dedicated to lectures about the creation of corporate spin-offs, on how to attract investments and tips and tricks in building international businesses. Robotics experts and entrepreneurs shared their experience in commercializing robotics-related technologies with the rest of interested participants.
Innovation Tuesday was held on 2nd of October while Breaking the Surface was held from 30th September until 7th October in Biograd na Moru, Croatia. More than 200 participants from marine robotics field and its applications - marine biology, maritime archaeology, maritime security, geology, oceanology etc. participated in BtS programs.
As part of Innovation Tuesday, lecturers from various aspects presented their experience and knowledge.
Innovation Tuesday (INNOVA) lectures:
The 10th jubilee edition of the International Interdisciplinary Field Workshop of Marine Robotics and Applications Breaking the Surface was held from 30th September until 7th October 2018 in Biograd na Moru, Croatia.
BTS2018 was organized as a 3rd EXCELLABUST summer school with more than 200 participants from various disciplines (marine robotics, marine biology, marine archaeology, maritime security, geology etc.) joined BTS!
In short, BTS presented:
More information about the programme is available at BTS web site. Check photos to see how the event went at BtS gallery page.
Filip Mandić, Anja Babić, Ivan Lončar and Barbara Arbanas from the Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems held a tutorial on underwater measurements using aMussel at Breaking the Surface workshop on 5th October 2018. The tutorial emerged from the work on H2020 project subCULTRon. In the tutorial, they showed how to program an aMussel platform to sink to the bottom, make an underwater measurement, transmit it acoustically to an aPad, return to the surface after a predefined time and SMS measurements to a cell phone.
The 10th jubilee edition of the Breaking the Surface workshop is ahead of us. From 30th September until 7th October 2018, Biograd na Moru, Croatia, will once again host an international interdisciplinary workshop for underwater explorations. Experts, scientists, and students will gather in lectures, demonstrations, and tutorials that combines academic topics in marine robotics and its applications. The workshop includes various scientific areas such as marine robotics, maritime biology, marine archaeology, security and safety, oceanography, etc.
The schedule of BtS workshop is available here.
The 11th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles – CAMS 2018 was held from 10th to 12th September 2018 in Opatija, Croatia. Our Laboratory was one of the organizers of the scientific conference which assembled around 100 participants from all around the world.
Anja Babić presented two papers: Autonomous Docking and Energy Sharing between Two Types of Robotic Agents (authors: Anja Babić, Filip Mandić, Goran Vasilijević, and Nikola Mišković) and Heuristics Pool for Hyper-Heuristic Selection During Task Allocation in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Marine Robots (authors: Anja Babić, Nikola Mišković and Zoran Vukić)
Justin M. Kennedy (Queensland University of Technology) was awarded for the Best student paper.
The 12th IFAC CAMS conference will be held from 18 to 20 September 2019 in Daejeon, Korea.
During July and August 2018, LABUST member Đula Nađ was a guest researcher in the University of Limerick (UL), Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CRIS) where he was supervised by Dr. Edin Omerdić (UL).
The research plan and report for the visit are available in the repository.
The main outcomes of the visit were:
These new skills will be used for the development of a new system for investigating diver-robot interactions and for a system providing end-user education and training.
LABUST team (Z. Vukić, Đ. Nađ, M. Marković and N. Kapetanović) participated in an exercise called CORKEX 2018 in Cork, Ireland from 23 July to 28 July 2018 within the project Expanded Underwater Robotics Ready for Oil Spills - e-URready4OS. The exercise was carried out onboard the Irish Naval Vessel “Le Roisin” and it was operated from the Naval Base, Haulbowline, Co Cork. The exercise was coordinated by the Irish Coast Guard. Main objectives of the exercise were to expand the already existing URready4OS fleet (from 5 to 12 assets) - provide training to new vehicles teams joining the fleet, to demonstrate the capability of the current URready4OS system and to provide training and transfer of knowledge. Main participants of CORKEX 2018 were the University of Porto, University of Zagreb, University of Cartagena, University of Cyprus, University of Girona and University of Balearic Islands, Irish Naval Service and Irish Coast Guard.
Nikola Mišković, Ivana Mikolić and Barbara Arbanas (LARICS) participated as the Referees in ERL Emergency Tournament 2018 held in La Spezia, Italy from 14th to 20th July 2018. They rewarded the best rookie team and the most creative team with Breaking the Surface vouchers for free attending its 10th edition.
The European Robotics League is an innovative concept for robot competitions focuses on tasks that emergency response robots execute in a realistic emergency environment.
Breaking the Surface (BtS) workshop, which brings together a significant part of the marine community will be held from 30 September until 7 October 2018 in Biograd na Moru, Croatia. On 2nd October 2018., in the scope of the BtS, the Computer Vision and Robotics Research Institute of the University of Girona along with IQUA Robotics is organizing a workshop to discuss the adoption of conventions in the underwater ROS community. If you plan to attend the underwater ROS workshop please fill this confirmation form and here you can find for more information about the meeting.
The H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics", ACROSS CoE - Centre of Excellence for Autonomous and Cooperative Robotic Systems, IEEE Croatia Robotics and Automation Chapter and ZCI-DATACROSS organized the lecture
"From knowing where you are to understanding where you are"
given by Prof. Patric Jensfelt, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. The lecture took place on Wednesday, July 11, 2018, in the Gray Hall of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. (UNIZG-FER).
The H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics", ACROSS CoE - Centre of Excellence for Autonomous and Cooperative Robotic Systems, IEEE Croatia Robotics and Automation Chapter and ZCI-DATACROSS will organize the lecture:
"From knowing where you are to understanding where you are"
which will be held by Prof. Patric Jensfelt, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
The lecture will take place on Wednesday, July 11, 2018, starting at 11:00 in the Gray Hall of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing.
You can find out more about the lecturer and the seminar in the detailed news content.
On 27 June 2018, Nikola Mišković participated at the info day for the field Spreading excellence and widening participation in the EU Horizon 2020 programme held in the hall of the Rectorate of the University of Zagreb. He presented the Twinning project EXCELLABUST, as a good practice, and success story in the field of Croatian Spreading excellence and participation. The participants had the opportunity to gain the valuable insights and difficulties faced by project coordinators in the implementation of projects from the initial stage and the selection of the project consortium until implementation and financial and narrative reporting on project results.
Nadir Kapetanović participated at MED’18 conference (June 19-22, 2018) where he presented the scientific paper named "Information Gain-Guided Online Coverage Path Planning for Side-Scan Sonar Survey Missions". The authors of the paper are Kapetanović, Nadir (UNIZG-FER), Mišković, Nikola (UNIZG-FER), and Tahirović, Adnan (Faculty of Electrical Engineering Sarajevo). Their research was funded by CroMarx, MORUS, and BLUEMED project.
As part of the H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics", dr. Edin Omerdić and dr. Gerald Dooly held a tutorial titled "ROVs for Use in Challenging Conditions: I-ROV & ROV ÉTÁIN" on 14th - 15th June 2018 at the University of Limerick. Gerard Dooly provided a brief introduction to the hardware elements of the UL ROV Étáin prior to travelling into the UL Limerick Docks facility. At UL Limerick Docks students had the opportunity to get a hands-on hardware and software elements of the ROV and a brief training on how to operate the ROV and sub-systems (manual pilot control, copilot interfaces, LARS operation & manipulator control). The lectures on the second day included a description of features and physical layout of system components, standard ROV operation procedures and operation modes and results from ROV maiden voyage in May 2018.
More about the speakers and their talks can be found here.
MORUS, CROMARX, EXCELLABUST, subCULTron, and EUMR projects had a poster presentation at the 26th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation – MED 2018. The conference held tutorials, workshops, presentations, and lectures that covered a wide range of topics on control systems, automation, and robotics. The conference was held from 19 to 22 June 2018 in Zadar, Croatia.
A project meeting was held in Limerick, Ireland on 14th June 2018, one day after the EMRA'18 workshop. The meeting took place at the University of Limerick and all partner institutions were represented. In addition to progress reporting, the main topic of the meeting was organisation of the upcoming Breaking the Surface 2018 workshop.
Nikola Mišković and Ivana Mikolić participated in EUMR project meeting held on 13th June 2018 during the EMRA'18 workshop. In the meeting, they discussed on the latest deliverable phase and reviewed the proposed timeline and process. Each project partner gave a review of its activities for the previous period and presented working plans for the forthcoming period.
EMRA'18 workshop on EU-funded Marine Robotics and Applications was organized at the University of Limerick from June 12 to June 13, 2018, as a part of EU H2020 Twining project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics". The goal of this workshop was to bring together a diverse range of speakers from academia and industry representatives from all around EU, who work in the field of marine robotics. At the workshop, they presented their work, enabled innovative technologies and applications, exchanged ideas, and discussed the development of marine robotics in the future.
The complete workshop programme, workshop proceedings, and photo gallery are available on EMRA’18 site.
MORUS, PLADYFLEET, and EUMR projects were presented at EMRA'18 workshop. MORUS project was presented by Professor Stjepan Bogdan from Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems. The PLADYFLEET project was presented as part of RAWFIE project by Stathes Hadjiefthymiades from the University of Athens. The EUMR project was presented by António Sérgio Ferreira from the University of Porto.
The 5th edition of the EMRA workshop took place in Limerick, 12 -13 June 2018. The EMRA’18 was organised by University of Limerick and CRIS under EU projects "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics" and "EUMR - EUMarineRobots".
As part of the EMRA’18 workshop, we visited Centre for Robotics & Intelligent Systems (CRIS). CRIS was presented by Dr. Edin Omerdić and Dr. Gerard Dooly. Their work is focused on control systems research and development for field robotics in the domains of marine robotics, airborne robotics, and industrial robotics. The 5th edition of the EMRA workshop took place in Limerick, 12 -13 June 2018. The EMRA’18 was organised by University of Limerick and CRIS under EU projects "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics" and "EUMR - EUMarineRobots".
On Monday, June 11, 2018, the 3rd Innovation Management Training named “Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship” was held at University of Limerick, under H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics". This highly interactive training was held by Mr. Fergal Brophy who is an entrepreneurial specialist at UCD Innovation Academy. Besides this, he is a growth planner and mentor at the Social Innovation Fund (SIF).
The goal of the training was to nurture and develop creative confidence, practice creativity in a fun, safe and collaborative environment, foster entrepreneurial mindset and to collaboratively develop an innovative solution for an everyday object.
More about the speaker and training is available here.
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing of the University of Zagreb (UNIZG FER), Croatian Ministry of Science and Education and The Central Finance and Contracting Agency (CFCA) have signed the Grant Agreement “Research Infrastructure Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (INFRA-LAPOST)" on 7th June 2018. The project is contracted within part of Call "Development and strengthening of synergies with horizontal activities of Horizon 2020: Twinning and ERA Chairs", under the "Operational Programme Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014 – 2020”. The agreement was signed by the UNIZG FER Dean Professor Mislav Grgić, Minister of Science and Education Blaženka Divjak and Director of the Central Finance and Contracting Agency Tomislav Petrić. Prof. Zoran Vukić attended the signing of the agreement as LABUST representative.
The INFRA-LAPOST project will greatly improve research infrastructure facility and equipment of Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies.
LABUST member Matej Celega participated at the 41st International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics – MIPRO 2018 in Opatija, Croatia on 23rd May 2018. He was invited by entrepreneurial center Silos d.o.o from Rijeka, Croatia. Matej participated at MIPRO INOVA, part of the conference dedicated to innovation on which he presented our autonomous marine surface vehicle H2Omni-X.
The conference was held from 21 to 25 May 2018 in Opatija, Croatia.
The program for the 11th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles has been published.
Here you can read the program for IFAC CAMS 2018.
IFAC CAMS 2018 will be held from 10th until 12th September 2018 at the Conference Park 25/7 in Opatija, Croatia. It is organized by the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies – LABUST, University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing – UNIZG FER with the help of the KoREMA (IFAC national member Organization) and the Center for Underwater Systems and Technologies.
Professor Zoran Vukić, Associate professor Nikola Mišković and UNIZG-FER Dean Professor Mislav Grgić were proud to have been invited by Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway to the Republic of Croatia, her Excellency Ms. Astrid Versto to the celebration of Norwegian Constitution Day, on 17 May 2018 in the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Zagreb. This friendly gesture of her Excellency is confirmation of excellent cooperation of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Zagreb and LABUST. The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Zagreb was one of the sponsors of Breaking the Surface workshop last year.
On 10 May 2018, LABUST members Đula Nađ and Filip Mandić participated at annual PhD Day at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing University of Zagreb (UNIZG-FER). PhD Day is an annual event at UNIZG-FER that enables PhD students to broaden their research and career perspectives. Đula Nađ presented his rewarded doctorate “Guidance and control of autonomous underwater agents with acoustically” and Filip Mandić presented current results of his doctoral research on dissertation topic “Control of surface marine vessels for underwater vehicle localization using single range acoustic measurements”.
LABUST team is testing equipment at Pelješac peninsula, Croatia for the upcoming BLUEMED project trial which will be conducted next week in the Baia Bay in Italy. Final preparation for upcoming trial is underway at the two sites in Pelješac, Trstenik in the south side of the peninsula and Drače in the north. LABUST vehicles Lupis (OceanScan LAUV), ASV H2Omni-X (H2O Robotics) and new BlueROV2 (Blue Robotics) are tested.
The two main objectives of testing are to capture some location with Lupis camera to get a mosaic and a 3D model of location and to capture some location with a bathymetric sonar on H2Omni-X to get a bathymetric map with the ability to connect camera and sonar data in order to get a better 3D model.
BLUEMED project aims to support and promote sustainable and responsible tourism development in coastal areas and islands of the Mediterranean. This will be achieved by planning, testing and coordinating Underwater Museums, Diving Parks and Knowledge Awareness Centres (KACs) in 4 pilot sites: Capo Rizutto and Baia bay (Italy), Western Pagasitikos/Sporades (Greece) and Cavtat sites (Croatia).
LABUST member Nikola Mišković participated in the final ceremony of RADDAR programme at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing on May 7, 2018. As part of the ceremony, associate professor Mišković held a presentation on maritime robotics and its application. RADDAR programme is intended for primary school students for learning and developing skills in mathematics and programming.
Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST) at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia is currently recruiting one doctoral fellow position. The successful candidate will work on sonar image processing.
The proposed research will involve research in advanced signal processing and deep learning with the emphasis on autonomous identification of sonar detected objects from various perspectives in real-time. The participant is expected to carry out research and publish results in conferences and journals, participate in the preparation of proposals for research funding and in the writing of project reports, participate in teaching and mentoring graduate students (at least 90 hours per year).
It's desirable to fill the position before July 2018, but the start date is negotiable. The expected duration of the position is 4 years.
Applicants should provide the following material via email to Prof. Nikola Mišković (Nikola.miskovic@fer.hr). Please use the subject line: “[PhD application]”. Applications will be reviewed as they are received.
Deadline for applications: May 7th, 2018
Read here about required skills and qualification for the position.
The H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics", Centre of Excellence ACROSS CoE, Centre of Research Excellence DATACROSS and IEEE Croatia Section, Robotics and Automation Chapter organized the lecture
"Underwater Robot Navigation and SMaRC"
given by Prof. John Folkesson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. The lecture took place on Tuesday, 17th April 2018 in a seminar room at ZARI.
The H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics", Centre of Excellence ACROSS CoE, Centre of Research Excellence DATACROSS and IEEE Croatia Section, Control Systems Chapter organized the lecture
"Decentralized Coordination and Abstraction for Coupled Multi-Agent Systems"
given by Dimitris Boskos, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. The lecture took place on Tuesday, 17th April 2018 at UNIZG-FER.
The H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics", Centre of Excellence ACROSS CoE, Centre of Research Excellence DATACROSS and IEEE Croatia Section, Robotics and Automation Chapter organized the lecture
"Embodiment Approaches to Sensorimotor Robot Policy Training"
given by Prof. Mårten Björkman, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. The lecture took place on Tuesday, 17th April 2018 in a seminar room at ZARI.
The Office of Naval Research project “ADRIATIC - Advancing Diver-Robot Interaction Capabilities” coordinated by LABUST will start on 1st June 2018 and will last for 36 months. The project consortium consists of UNIZG-FER - LABUST (Croatia) and University of Auckland (New Zealand). The ADRIATIC project builds upon recent research accomplishments in the area of human-robot interaction underwater, by advancing the developed cooperative motion algorithms and introducing wearable sensors in a form of a diver glove for controlling an autonomous underwater vehicle that serves as a robotic diving buddy.
The H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics", Centre of Excellence ACROSS CoE, Centre of Research Excellence DATACROSS and IEEE Croatia Section, Robotics and Automation Chapter organized an innovation management training on the topic of
“Knowledge and Technology Transfer”
given by Prof. Manuela Arata, Genova Makers's Village, Genoa, Italy. The training took place on 19-20 April 2018 at UNIZG-FER.
LABUST together with the Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems - LARICS and the Laboratory for Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robots - LAMOR, presented robotics research group Robotics@fer.hr at the Festival of Science, on April 20th, 2018 at the Technical Musem in Zagreb. Elementary and high school students from Zagreb had a chance to see and learn something about marine robotics and exploration of the underwater world. aPad, which is being developed by LABUST and partners, has been showcased as an example of a modular marine vehicle used for such purposes.
The H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics", Centre of Excellence ACROSS CoE, Centre of Research Excellence DATACROSS and IEEE Croatia Section, Robotics and Automation Chapter will organize innovation management training on the topic of:
“Knowledge and Technology Transfer”
which will be held by Prof. Manuela Arata, Genova Makers's Village, Genoa, Italy
The training will take place on 19-20 April 2018, starting both days at 09:00, in a seminar room at ZARI, building C, 9th floor. Meet and greet coffee will be half an hour earlier, at 08:30.
If you are interested to participate at the training please contact Ivana Mikolić at ivana.mikolic@fer.hr by Wednesday, April 18th.
More about the speaker and lecture is available in detailed news content and here.
The H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics" will organize training on the topic of:
“Polar robotics training”
which will be held by Massimo Caccia, The National Research Council (CNR), Genoa, Italy. The training will take place on 19th April 2018, starting at 15:20, in a seminar room at ZARI, building C, 9th floor. Meet and greet coffee will be at 15:00.
More about the speaker and training is available in detailed news content and here.
The H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics", Centre of Excellence ACROSS and IEEE Croatia Section, Robotics and Automation Chapter organized the lecture
"Eyes in the Ocean"
given by Stephen Hall, Society for Underwater Technology, London, UK. The lecture took place on Friday, 13th April 2018 in Grey Hall at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia.
The H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics", Centre of Excellence ACROSS CoE, Centre of Research Excellence DATACROSS and IEEE Croatia Section, Robotics and Automation Chapter will organize the lecture:
"Embodiment Approaches to Sensorimotor Robot Policy Training"
which will be held by Prof. Mårten Björkman, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 17th April 2018, starting at 09:30 in a seminar room at ZARI, building C, 9th floor.
You can find more about the lecturer and the seminar in the detailed news content.
The H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics", Centre of Excellence ACROSS CoE, Centre of Research Excellence DATACROSS and IEEE Croatia Section, Robotics and Automation Chapter will organize the lecture:
"Underwater Robot Navigation and SMaRC"
which will be held by Prof. John Folkesson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 17th April 2018, starting at 11:00 in seminar room at ZARI, building C, 9th floor.
You can find more about the lecturer and the seminar in the detailed news content.
The H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics", Centre of Excellence ACROSS CoE, Centre of Research Excellence DATACROSS and IEEE Croatia Section, Control Systems Chapter will organize the lecture:
"Decentralized Coordination and Abstraction for Coupled Multi-Agent Systems"
which will be held by Dimitris Boskos, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 17th April 2018, starting at 10:15 in a seminar room at ZARI, building C, 9th floor.
You can find more about the lecturer and the seminar in the detailed news content.
The H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics", IEEE Croatia Section, Robotics and Automation Chapter, Centre of Excellence ACROSS CoE, and Centre of Research Excellence DATACROSS will organize the lecture:
"Eyes in the Ocean"
which will be held by Stephen Hall, Society for Underwater Technology, London, UK.
The lecture will take place on Friday, 13th April 2018, starting at 13:00 in Grey Hall at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia.
More about the speaker and the talk can be found in the detailed news content.
On 5th April 2018, students from the University of Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina) visited our Laboratory and other research laboratories at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. Nikica Kokir and Filip Mandić held a brief presentation about our laboratory, ongoing research projects, and equipment. Students showed great interest in our work and equipment.
LABUST team participated in the workshop “Fundamentals of the intellectual property for the researchers” held in UNIZG-FER on the 28th March 2018. The workshop was organised and held by Mirjana Dozan, Head of the Office for Intellectual Property at UNIZG-FER, Igor Bošnjaković, Senior Adviser at State Intellectual Property Office, and Associate Professor Dubravko Babić from UNIZG-FER. The goals of the workshop were to promote and stimulate scientific research, establish a procedure for identification, protection, and commercialization of intellectual property and help researchers to track and record the intellectual property portfolio.
The workshop covered the following topics:
On 20 March 2018, Anja Babić has presented and successfully defended her PhD topic.
Anja Babić presented and successfully defended PhD thesis with the topic „A hyper-heuristic approach to achieving long-term autonomy in a heterogeneous swarm of marine robots“. Associate Professor Nikola Mišković has been confirmed for her mentoring.
The committee was consisted of:
Alongside more than 500 exhibiting companies from 79 countries LABUST presented its spinoff company H2O Robotics and the EUMarine Robots - EUMR project at the world's prestigious exhibition for marine science and ocean technology Oceanology International which was held from 13 - 15 March 2018 in London, UK.
LABUST members Zoran Vukić, Matej Celega, Milan Marković, and Marin Bek successfully presented the H2O Robotics product H2Omni-X. Ivana Mikolić took part in the first public appearance of the EUMR project and Nikola Mišković presented EXCELLABUST activities.
All projects and the company had several specific queries with many interested parties (project managers, company directors, research centers and scientific laboratories).
LABUST participated in a lecture
„KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s role in making Stockholm a global cluster for ICT“
and workshop
„Turning research into business – Understanding the impact of technology“
given by Dr. Martin Vendel, KTH Stockholm, Sweden.
The lecture took place on Thursday, 15th March 2018 and the workshop took place on Friday, 16th March 2018 at UNIZG-FER. On both occasions, Dr. Martin Vendel talked about the impact and importance of technology transfer.
LABUST together with the Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems - LARICS and the Laboratory for Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robots - LAMOR, presented robotics research group Robotics@fer.hr at UNIZG-FER at European Robotics Forum - ERF 2018, held from 13th until 15th March 2018 in Tampere, Finland. LABUST also presented the ACROSS project, IFAC CAMS 2018 conference and Breaking the Surface 2018 workshop. The participation on ERF 2018 was financed in the scope of ACROSS project. In addition, LABUST member Đula Nađ, as a finalist, received a plaque for participation at the prestigious Georges Giralt PhD Award which was held at the Scandic Rosendahl Hotel, Tampere on 14th March. The Georges Giralt PhD Award is a European scientific prize for extraordinary contributions in robotics. It is yearly awarded at the European Robotics Forum by euRobotics AISBL.
Nikola Mišković visited King’s College London and Imperial College London, UK on 15th March 2018. At King’s College London, he was hosted by Dr. Daniele Magazzeni and at Imperial College London by Dr. Mirko Kovač. During the visit, he gave an invited talk at both universities on research activities by LABUST with a strong emphasis on potential future collaboration opportunities.
Antonio Vasilijević and Nikola Mišković attended the EUMR Kick-Off Meeting held from 1st March to 2nd March 2018 in Porto, Portugal. The meeting facilitated partner introductions and allowed a detailed examination of all project future activities and goals. During the two day meeting, partners had the opportunity to discuss various topics, including project objectives, the governance structure, milestones, management processes and tools, project roadmap and partners responsibilities. In the EUMR project, we will be responsible for Networking, Communication and Dissemination activities. Main contributions will be in organizing the broad networking events within the scope of Breaking the Surface summer school. In addition, we will participate in all other dissemination activities.
Association of Students of Electronic Faculty of Sarajevo – STELEKS in cooperation with IEEE Student Branch University of Sarajevo organised a visit for the ETF students to UNIZG-FER on 1st March 2018. They visited Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies, Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems, Laboratory for Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robotics, Laboratory for Renewable Energy Systems and The High Voltage Laboratory. The students were led by Associate Professor Selma Hanjalić, Faculty of the Electrical Engineering University of Sarajevo. Our member Nadir Kapetanovic, a former student of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering Sarajevo, now a PhD student at UNIZG-FER was available to students for all questions.