LARICS team attended  Breaking the Surface 2020  workshop from September 27 to October 4, 2020. This was the 12th edition of this international intersiciplinary field workshop of marine robotics and its applications, held every year in Biograd na moru, Croatia.  LARICS mebers actively participated in the workshop programme with their PhD presentations and tutorials, and attended lectures by AeRoTwin partners from the University of Seville (J. Ramiro Martinez de Dios, Augusto Gómez Eguíluz, Julio L. Paneque) and Imperial College London (Mirko Kovac, Crystal Winston, Andre Farinha, Julien di Tria), and the  invited talk by Ivana Palunko (University of Dubrovnik) organized within H2020 AeRoTwin project.

LARICS nudi jedno znanstveno-istraživačko radno mjesto na istraživačkom projektu AgroSPARC : Napredna i prediktivna poljoprivreda za otpornost klimatskim promjenama koji provodi u suradnji s Agronomskim fakultetom i Inovacijskim centrom Nikola Tesla. Radna mjesta obuhvaćaju razvoj inovativnog proizvoda koji će pomoći predviđanje razvoja pšenice umjetnom inteligencijom ovisno o vremenskoj prognozi i drugim uvjetima. Kandidati će pomoći izraditi sustav za uzgoj pšenice u izoliranim i željenim klimatskim uvjetima uz regulacijske petlje osvjetljenja, temperature, navodnjavanja, doziranja nutrijenata i dr. te sustav u oblaku za automatsko arhiviranje podataka o mikroklimatskim uvjetima i identifikatorima razvoja.  Što tražimo: motiviranog inženjera iskusnog u području automatike, robotike i elektotehničkih sustava koji se želi nositi sa  znanstvenim i tehničkim izazovima u području Interneta stvari i umjetne inteligencije iskustvo u radu s Robotskim operacijskim sustavom iskustvo s korištenjem algoritama iz područja robotike  poznavanje programskih jezika C++ i Python Natječaj je otvoren od 24.9.2020. do 31.9.2020.  Zainteresirane kandidate molimo da pošalju email sa svojim životopisom i motivacijskim pismom voditelju projekta doc. dr. sc. Matku Orsagu ( matko.orsag@fer.hr ).

Our PhD students Antun Ivanovic, Lovro Markovic, Marko Krizmancic and Ana Batinovic attended the 2020 IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems hosted at Czech Technical University in Prague from 14th to 18th of September 2020 . The Summer School program aims at promoting the newest achievements in multi-robot system research.  The main scope of the program was swarm robotics, including lectures by well-recognized experts in the field, group seminars, computer practicals, and outdoor experiments.  Moreover, the Summer School was a great opportunity for networking with other participants and lecturers.  You can find more about the Summer School at http://mrs.felk.cvut.cz/summer-school/ Check out photos in the Gallery.

The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration (MFI 2020)  was held from  14th to 16th of September 2020  virtually. MFI 2020 is an international conference sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) and the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES).  LARICS' PhD student  Bruno Maric  virtually presented a scientific paper:  B. Maric, M. Polic, T. Tabak, M. Orsag, "Unsupervised optimization approach to in situ calibration of collaborative human robot interaction tools"

Our PhD student Antonella Barišić attended the Programming short course and workshop on Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Autonomous Systems from 19th to 21st of August, 2020. The workshop was held remotely with more than 40 participants. The aim of the workshop was to provide theoretical and practical programming knowledge on applying computer vision techniques and deep learning to solve problems in robotics such as object detection and target tracking.

International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems ICUAS 2020, as a hybrid conference, both virtual and physical event, was held from 1st to 4th of September 2020 in Athens, Greece. LARICS' PhD student Antun Ivanovic virtually presented a scientific paper: A. Ivanovic, M. Car, M. Orsag, and S. Bogdan, “Exploiting null space in aerial manipulation through model-in-the-loop motion planning”   The video of demonstration experiments can be found here .

LARICS has got another team member – Dean Martinovic!  After graduating from the  University of Stuttgart Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering , Dean worked in the automotive industry as embedded software developer on AUTOSAR software components. After returning to the University of Stuttgart in 2012, he completed his  Ph.D. in the area of magnetic field based localization systems for inductive charging purposes of electric vehicles . Wishing Dean good luck and a lot of successful endeavors in the LARICS team!

This year, International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA 2020 is being held form 31 May to 31 August as a virtual conference with some live events.  LARICS' PhD students  Bruno Maric  and  Marko Krizmancic have sent in video presentations of the following scientific papers: Maric B., Mutka A., Orsag M., (2020),   Collaborative Human-Robot Framework for Delicate Sanding of Complex Shape Surfaces Krizmancic M., Arbanas B., Petrovic T., Petric F., Bogdan S., (2020), Cooperative Aerial-Ground Multi-Robot System for Automated Construction Tasks The video presentations and the papers are now available to all registered participants of ICRA 2020 .