Juraj Oršulić, mag. ing.
PhD Student, Research associate
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juraj.orsulic@fer.unizg.hr
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Juraj Oršulić (1992) is a PhD student and researcher at the Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems (LARICS) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER), University of Zagreb. He graduated in electrical engineering and information technology from the same institution in 2016 under the mentorship of Professor Miljenko Mikuc and immediately afterward became a departmental associate at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering. In 2022, he was appointed to the position of assistant for the scientific field of technical sciences, specifically electrical engineering, and took on a doctoral candidate role at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering.
His research interests lie in robotics, where he has worked on developing algorithms for automatic laser map generation for use in autonomous warehouse vehicle control (supervisors: Dr. Damjan Miklić and Prof. Zdenko Kovačić). As part of this project, he made a significant contribution to the open-source Google Cartographer SLAM project, while the developed method for precise laser mapping was the subject of a submitted patent application. After completing the AMaCal project, he continued working at FER through a collaboration with the American company Phoenix Lidar Systems, where he develops software solutions for space reconstruction using 3D lidar technology. He was also part of the LARICS team that won first place in the European Robotics League competitions. Currently, he is a collaborator on the NPOO project "Point cloud for industrial plant digitalization - OTIP".
In addition to research, he is involved in teaching robot programming and mentoring students. So far, he has co-authored seven scientific papers, with one related to his PhD work currently under review.
At FER, he serves as an assistant and co-author of some laboratory exercises for the Programming and Simulation of Robots (PSR) course, where students learn programming using ROS (Robot Operating System). He is a member of IEEE (Computational Intelligence section) and was an organizer and lecturer at the Robotics Workshop at XV Gymnasium (MIOC) in collaboration with the MIOC Alumni Association.
He is also a co-founder of the spin-off company Romb Technologies, which focuses on automating logistics systems in industrial warehouses.
