Laboratory for Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robotics


The Laboratory for Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robotics (LAMOR), directed by Prof. Ivan Petrović of the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, has a long tradition in research of advanced control strategies and estimation techniques for a variety of applications with a strong emphasis on autonomous navigation of ground and aerial robots in unknown and dynamic environments. Our methodology relies on a strong coupling between theoretical research, algorithm development, experimental evaluations, and a healthy dose of serendipity. LAMOR's research activity is organized around three major axes: Motion Planning and Control, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, and Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects. Our laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art ground and aerial robotic platforms, advanced perception sensors and a motion capture covered arena.


News
LAMOR receives funding for a new project

LAMOR's Ivan Marković received funding for a new trilateral project by the Crotian National Science Foundation through the Weave initiative. HORACE is a trilateral project between UNIZG-FER, Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland, and Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia.

In HORACE, we will go beyond Euclidean distances between two points, and instead consider distances between other geometric objects and  account for manifolds that are not Euclidean. HORACE will lead to novel methodological developments yielding more efficient human-robot collaboration and better understanding of its inherent geometrical structure. For more details, follow the link.

In loving memory of our friend Vasko

Our deepest condolences to the family of our tragically deceased colleague Vasko Sazdovski. Vasko spent two years in our laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher.

Vasko, your presence and enthusiasm always brightened the day and made people around you feel joy. We will never forget you.

 

The AIFORS Lab - ERA Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Robotics and LAMOR - Laboratory for autonomous systems and mobile robotics, in collaboration with EDIH Crobohub++ organize a workshop

The 1st AIFORS Workshop on Industry – Academia Collaboration

The workshop will be held on Tuesday, July 9, 2024, in the Gray Hall of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER) with the following agenda.

Speakers with rich international experience in research and development in robotics and artificial intelligence will present their past collaborations with industry and the latest research and views on the future.

Participation in the workshop is open to all interested attendees who register by noon, Friday, July 5, 2024, via the following link.  

 

The AIFORS Lab - ERA Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Robotics and LAMOR - Laboratory for autonomous systems and mobile robotics organize a workshop

The AIFORS Workshop on European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers and Gender Analysis in Research

The workshop will be held on Thursday, July 4, 2024, in the Gray Hall of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER) with the following agenda.

The morning session is to discuss the European Charter of Researchers and its role in fostering the creation of a fully functional, globally competitive, just and inclusive European Research Area. The afternoon session is dedicated to assess the current situation, discuss how to make further progress on gender equality and inclusion issues in research, globally, in the ERA, and in particular at the University of Zagreb and FER.

Participation in the workshop is open to all interested attendees who register by noon, Monday, July 1, 2024, via the following link.   

Best Student Paper Award Finalist at...

At the 33rd International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD) that took place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, from June 5-7, 2024, LAMOR's student paper titled "Cost-Effective Robot Arm Teleoperation via Human Pose Tracking with Monocular Camera" received the Best Student Paper Finalist Award.

Special thanks go to Bernard Parfaite, our visiting student from Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, France.

Ivan Petrović is the a...

LAMOR is proud to share the news that Prof. Ivan Petrović just became a new Editor-In-Chief of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal. RAS publishes fundamental developments in the field of robotics, with special emphasis on autonomous systems. An important goal of this journal is to extend the state of the art in both symbolic and sensory based robot control and learning in the context of autonomous systems. The Editorial board can be found at the following link.

The project AIFORS - ERA Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Robotics and LAMOR - Laboratory for autonomous systems and mobile robotics organize training in dissemination, exploitation and communication. The training is organized in two sessions.

The first training session, focused on networking skills and communication, dissemination and IPR of research results, will take place on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, in the Gray Hall of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER) and will have the following agenda.

The second training session, dedicated to the oral presentation of research work and the writing of scientific publications, will take place on Thursday, March 28, 2024, in room A-204 of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER) and will have the following agenda.

Participation in the training sessions is open to all interested researchers from UNIZG-FER who register by noon on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, via the following link.

The project AIFORS - ERA Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Robotics and LAMOR - Laboratory for autonomous systems and mobile robotics organize an international scientific colloquium

The 1st AIFORS Colloquium on Natural and Artificial Intelligence

The colloquium will be held on Tuesday, March 19, 2024in the Gray Hall of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER).

The technical program of the colloquium contains four invited lectures that will be given by renowned international scientists in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics, as well as lectures by the ERA Chair holder of the AIFORS project.

Participation in the colloquium is open to all interested researchers from the academic community and industry who register by Monday, March 18, 2024, noon, via the following link.

The colloquium program is available on the colloquium website.

LAMOR's Ivan Marković receives...

On February 09, 2024, in the Croatian Parliament, LAMOR's Ivan Marković received the Croatian National Science Award for Technical Sciences. The award was handed by the Croatian Minister of Science and Education and the vice-president of the Croatian Parliament.

LAMOR publishes in Robotics and...

LAMOR publishes in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal:

Gregorić, Jelena; Seder, Marija; Petrović, Ivan. Autonomous hierarchy creation for computationally feasible near-optimal path planning in large environments // Robotics and autonomous systems, 2024.

The paper can be accessed via the journal's website.

LAMOR starts a new Erasmus+ project

LAMOR is a partner in a new Erasmus+ project titled DRUMS - "DRUMS - Deep Tech & Robotics for Human-Centered Manufacturing Systems". DRUMS is a three year project with 5 partners from 5 different EU countries.

LAMOR@ECMR2023

LAMOR's Antea Hadviger, Karlo Koledić, Ivan Marković, and Ivan Petrović attended the European Conference on Mobile Robots, September 4-7, 2023 in Coimbra, Portugal, and  presented the following papers:

  • Hadviger, Antea; Štironja, Josip-Vlaho; Cvišić, Igor; Vražić, Sacha; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan. Stereo Visual Localization Dataset Featuring Event Cameras
  • Koledić, Karlo; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan. Towards camera parameters invariant monocular depth estimation in autonomous driving
LAMOR publishes in Robotics and...

LAMOR publishes in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal:

Finean, Mark; Petrović, Luka; Merkt, Wolfgang; Marković, Ivan; Havoutis, Ioannis. Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments Using Context-Aware Human Trajectory Prediction // Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2023.

This is a result from a collaboration with Ioannis Havoutis' laboratory from Oxford University. The paper can be accessed via the following link or on the journal's website.

Prof. Petrović gives an invited talk...

During his visit to Kyoto University and Prof. Takayuki Kanda's Human-Robot Interaction laboratory, Prof. Petrović gave a talk titled "Towards reliable long-term robot autonomy in challenging environments."

LAMOR@IAS-18

LAMOR's Vlaho-Josip Štironja and Ivan Petrović attended the International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-18), July 4-7, 2023 in Suwon, Korea and presented the following paper:

Additionally, Vlaho's paper was also Best Paper Finalist. Congratulations to Vlaho!

LAMOR@IFAC World Congress 2023

LAMOR's Ivan Bilić and Ivan Petrović attended the IFAC World Congress, July 9-14, 2023 in Yokohama, Japan and presented the following paper:

  • Bilić, Ivan; Marić, Filip; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan. A Distance-Geometric Method for Recovering Robot Joint Angles From an RGB Image
Borna Bićanić defends his PhD thesis

On May 15, 2023 LAMOR's Borna Bićanić successfully defended his doctoral dissertation and received a Doctor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Borna's thesis is titled “State estimation and multiple moving object tracking on Riemannian manifolds”. Congratulations to dr. Bićanić!

LAMOR@RAAD2023

LAMOR's Ivan Bilić and Luka Petrović attended the International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD 2023), June 14-16, 2023 in Bled, Slovenia and presented the following paper:

  • Bilić, Ivan; Popović, Goran; Bataljak-Savić, Tibor; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan. Road Curb Detection: ADAS for a Road Sweeper Vehicle
LAMOR's student Tin Mišić wins...

Under the mentorship of LAMOR, student Tin Mišić has won the Rector's Award for the academic year 2022/2023 and his work "Object Tracking based on an Active Stereo Vision System." Congratulations to Tin!

LAMOR@ICRA2023

LAMOR's Juraj Peršić, Karlo Koledić, Fabio Bonsignorio and Ivan Marković attended the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023), May 29-June 02, 2023 London, UK, and presented the following papers:

  • Koledić, Karlo; Cvišić, Igor; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan. MOFT: Monocular odometry based on deep depth and careful feature selection and tracking
  • Cvišić, Igor; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan. SOFT2: Stereo Visual Odometry for Road Vehicles based on a Point-to-Epipolar-Line Metric // IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2022.
Ivan Petrović appeared on Croatian...

On April 26, 2023, Prof. Petrović appeared live on the Croatian National Television News and discussed with the news anchor about Artificial Intellgence, its role in society, and applications in robotics. The whole interview can be seen at the following link.

Jurica Maltar defends his PhD thesis

On May 15, 2023 LAMOR's Jurica Maltar successfully defended his doctoral dissertation and received a Doctor of Science degree in Computer Science. Jurica's thesis is titled “Robust visual place recognition using deep representations and sequence-based image matching”. Congratulations to dr. Maltar!

Invitation to lecture "ROS 2 and...

LAMOR and IEEE Croatia Section, Robotics and Automation Chapter invite you to the lecture:

"ROS 2 and Robotics – Why do we need a “Linux” for Robots?"

which will be held by Denis Štogl, Karlsruhe, Germany. The lecture will take place on Monday, May 22, 2023, at 17.00h, in the Gray Hall of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing.

You can find more about the lecturer and the seminar in the detailed news content.

LAMOR's Luka Petrović receives a...

Luka Petrović received the Annual Young Scientist Award from the Society of University Professors in Zagreb for a particulary successful scientific accomplishments in the area of technical sciences, field of computer science. Congratulations to Luka!

LAMOR starts a new Europe Horizon...

Together with Prof. Zvonimir Šipuš's laboratory, LAMOR is a partner in a new Horizon Europe Pathfinder project titled FITNESS - "Flexible IntelligenT NEar-field Sensing Skins". FITNESS is a four year project with 7 partners from 4 different EU countries. You can find more about the project on its official website.

 

LAMOR taking part in joint Master...

LAMOR participates in a new joint master programme “MARBLE – Maritime Robotics in Blue Economy” which is being developed within the MARBLE project funded under the INTERREG Adrion scheme. A network of academic and business partners working together on maritime robotics skills enhancement and capacity building in blue economy will be established within the project, and the project partners will work together to prepare an innovative interdisciplinary master programme. 

Project MAS completed

FER researchers have collaborated with the company DOK-ING Ltd. on the project "Development of a multi-functional anti-terrorism system (MAS)" since October 2018. In accordance with the completion of the project in November 2022, LAMOR has successfully performed all planned activities and the project's results were presented at three international conferences:

  • Juraj Fulir presented the results published within the paper: Fulir, Juraj; Mihajlovic, Zeljka; Seder, Marija. A Simulator for Training Human Operators of a Remote Controlled Anti-Terrorism Ground Vehicle at the MIPRO 2020 conference
  • Marija Seder gave a presentation on the paper: Seder, Marija; Juric, Andela; Selek, Ana; Maric, Filip; Lovric, Marija; Petrovic, Ivan. Autonomous navigation of a tracked unmanned ground vehicle at the IAV 2020 conference
  • Ana Šelek presented the paper: Selek, Ana; Seder, Marija. Smooth Motion Planning of an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot in Dynamic Environments at the ICECCME 2022 conference.

The project was co-funded by EU funds within the Strengthening the Economy through Application of Research and Innovation program and aimed to stimulate SMEs to invest in R&D activities and develop a new innovative solution for the global market. 

LAMOR received the FER's Science...

FER awards are traditionally given at the Day of FER ceremony to the most successful students and employees and we are honored that this year's FER's Science Award was awarded to LAMOR (Laboratory for Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robotics) and the head of the laboratory, academician prof. dr. sc. Ivan Petrović.

LAMOR and prof. Petrović were acknowledged for achieving a globally recognized research result in the previous year in the field of FER mobile robotics.

Congratulations to the LAMOR staff and prof. Petrović on the excellent results!

Luka Petrović received the Silver...

On November 25, 2022, at the Day of FER ceremony, Luka Petrović was awarded FER's  Silver Plaque “Josip Lončar” for his outstanding doctoral dissertation and research work titled „High-dimensional trajectory optimization for robot motion planning based on Gaussian processes“ under the mentorship of Ivan Marković.

Prof. Petrović was an invited keynote...

Prof. Petrović participated at the Central European Technology Forum (CETEF'22) in Wroclaw on October 25, 2022, as an invited keynote speaker with the lecture “Mobile Robotics and AI in Robotisation of the European Industry”.

The lecture was held within the scope of the thematic conference on Development trends, opportunities, and barriers of robotization of the European industry and the main subject of the session dedicated to automation and robotization of production processes was the methods to overcome challenges posed to the industry. 

Tomislav Petković defends his PhD thesis

On October 7, 2022 LAMOR's Tomislav Petković successfully defended his doctoral dissertation and received a Doctor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Tomislav's thesis is titled “Human action and motion prediction in industrial human-robot shared environments using probabilistic decision-making methods”. Congratulations to dr. Petković!

Ivan Marković at ERAT2022

LAMOR's Ivan Marković participated at the European Robotics and Automation Talks (ERAT) 2022 that took place in Leibnitz, Austria. He gave a talk titled „Safe human-robot cohabitation for highly flexible warehouses“ at the Automation and Robotics in Logistics session. He also had the pleasure of visiting manufacturing facilities of Roto Frank Austria, Magna Steyr and Knapp.

LAMOR publishes in IEEE Transactions...

LAMOR publishes in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics journal:

Cvišić, Igor; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan. SOFT2: Stereo Visual Odometry for Road Vehicles based on a Point-to-Epipolar-Line Metric // IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2022.

The paper can be accessed via the following link.

LAMOR publishes in Applied Soft...

LAMOR publishes in the Applied Soft Computing journal:

Petković, Tomislav; Petrović, Luka; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan. Human action prediction in collaborative environments based on shared-weight LSTMs with feature dimensionality reduction // Applied Soft Computing. 2022.

The paper can be accessed via the following link or on the journal's website.

LAMOR publishe in Robotics and...

LAMOR publishes in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal:

Cvišić, Igor; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan. Enhanced calibration of camera setups for high-performance visual odometry // Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 155, September 2022, 104189.

The paper can be accessed via the following link or on the journal's website.

Goran Popović defends his PhD thesis

On July 21, 2022 LAMOR's Goran Popović successfully defended his doctoral dissertation and received a Doctor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Goran’s thesis is titled “Autonomous agent localization in dynamic scenarios based on visual sensor data fusion”. Congratulations to dr. Popović!

Filip Marić awarded with internship...

Our PhD student Filip Maric has been awarded with a research internship at Meta (formerly Facebook) in San Francisco, California. As part of a team within Meta Reality Labs, he will be  researching methods for introducing theory-driven inductive biases into existing deep learning-based body tracking pipelines for VR and AR applications. Congratulations to Filip!

Luka Petrović defends his PhD thesis

On July 18, 2022 LAMOR's Luka Petrović successfully defended his doctoral dissertation and received a Doctor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Luka’s thesis is titled “High-dimensional trajectory optimization for robot motion planning based on Gaussian processes”. Congratulations to dr. Petrović!

Job Announcement for Grant proposal...

Project AIFORS is looking for an expert, we are announcing an open position for Grant proposal writing and project management specialist position (Project Manager) in the framework of the H2020 EU funded project AIFORS.

For the full Job Announcement please click on the above link.

The deadline for the job application is July 15, 2022.

Interested candidates should contact us at aifors@fer.hr.  

IAS conference has been held every two years since 1986, allowing researchers to become acquainted with the latest accomplishments and innovations in advanced intelligent autonomous systems. It was our privilige to host IAS-17 and would like to thank all those who contributed to the success of the conference.

We are looking forward to seeing you at IAS-18 in 2023 in Suwon, South Korea!

LAMOR participates in EESTEC student...

As part of the student's organization EESTEC LAMOR participated in the Robots! workshop. We have lecture titled "Autonomous mobile robots" and organized and one-day laboratory titled "LEGO robot workshop - odometry and mapping".

LAMOR@ICRA 2022, Philadelphia, USA

LAMOR's Juraj Peršić and Filip Marić attended the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022), May 23-27, 2022 Philadelphia (PA), USA, and presented the following papers:

  • Peršić, Juraj; Petrović, Luka; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan. Spatiotemporal Multisensor Calibration via Gaussian Processes Moving Target Tracking
  • Giamou, Matthew; Maric, Filip; Rosen, David; Peretroukhin, Valentin; Roy, Nicholas; Petrovic, Ivan; Kelly, Jonathan. Convex Iteration for Distance-Geometric Inverse Kinematics
Ivan Petrović becomes a Full Member...

On May 19, 2022 Ivan Petrović was elected a Full Member of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Technical Sciences.

This is the highest honor a Croatian scientist can be given. Congratulations to Prof. Petrović!

Fabio Bonsignorio appointed as Era...

Prof. Fabio Bonsignorio has recently joined LAMOR and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) having been appointed for the position of ERA Chair Holder following an international open call. As a part of the project AIFORS, he will lead the Research Group for Artificial Intelligence for Robotics, assigned to the FER's LAMOR lab, which aims to take intelligent soft robotics to the next stage complementing the existing expertise and research direction of the LAMOR lab. We are happy to have Prof. Bonsignorio onboard!

For his short Bio see here.

Fabio Bonsignorio appointed as Era...

Prof. Fabio Bonsignorio has recently joined FER and LAMOR having been appointed for the position of ERA Chair holder following an international open call within the AIFORS project. He will lead the Research Group for AI for Robotics, assigned to LAMOR, which aims to take intelligent soft robotics to the next stage complementing the existing expertise and research direction of the LAMOR lab. Please read his short Bio in the detailed news content.

Job Announcements for doctoral and...

Project AIFORS extended the deadline for open positions for

to be part of the ERA Research Group for Artificial Intelligence for Robotics, established in the framework of the H2020 project AIFORS.

For the full Job Announcements please click on the above links.

The deadline for applications for both positions is June 3, 2022.

Interested candidates should contact us at aifors@fer.hr.  

Prof. Petrović wins the City of...

LAMOR's Prof. Ivan Petrović has received another recognition for his scientific excellence, international collaboration, and contribution to the community - the City of Zagreb Award for 2022. He achieved extremely valuable results in theoretical and practical work, as well as in promoting science during his rich scientific career. Congratulations to prof. Petrović!  

The City of Zagreb Award is being awarded to individuals and institutions since 1955.

LAMOR publishes in the IEEE...

LAMOR publishes in the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems journal:

Petrović, Luka; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan. Mixtures of Gaussian Processes for Robot Motion Planning Using Stochastic Trajectory Optimization // IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. 2022.

The paper can be accessed via the following link.

We are looking for researchers and...

We are looking for researchers and young researchers to join us in developing technologies for autonomous robotics systems in the project "A-UNIT - Research and development of an advanced unit for autonomous management of mobile vehicles in logistics".

Candidates for researchers should have a master's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, mechanical engineering or other related fields. Candidates for young researchers should have a master's degree or be students of the final semester of the study of computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, mechanical engineering or other related fields.

Interested candidates should contact the A-UNIT project leader, prof. dr. sc. Ivan Petrović, to the e-mail ivan.petrovic@fer.hr, no later than March 14, 2022.

Paper published in IEEE Robotics and...

LAMOR publishes in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters journal:

Giamou, Matthew; Maric, Filip; Rosen, David; Peretroukhin, Valentin; Roy, Nicholas; Petrovic, Ivan; Kelly, Jonathan. Convex Iteration for Distance-Geometric Inverse Kinematics // IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2022.

The paper can be accessed via the following link or on the journal's website.

Project SafeLog: Safe human-robot...

Within the Horizon 2020 project SafeLog, our researchers participated in designing a Safety Vest, a kind of a robot in the service of safety at work, that allows safe interaction between robots and humans in warehouse environments, which also ensures the optimal performance of the overall system. 

LAMOR's Ivan Marković and Goran Popović discussed the SafeLog project in HRT's show Prometej. You can watch the clip on FER's YouTube channel here.

Paper published in IEEE Transactions...

LAMOR publishes in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics journal:

Maric, Filip; Giamou, Matthew; Hall, Adam W.; Khoubyarian, Soroush; Petrovic, Ivan; Kelly, Jonathan. Riemannian Optimization for Distance Geometric Inverse Kinematics // IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2021.

The article can be accessed via the following link or on the journal's website.

Juraj Peršić received the Silver...

On November 26, 2021, at the Day of FER ceremony, Juraj Peršić was awarded FER's  Silver Plaque “Josip Lončar” for his outstanding doctoral dissertation and research work titled „Extrinsic and temporal calibration of heterogenous exteroceptive mobile sensor systems“ under the mentorship of Prof. Petrović.

Juraj's work was also recognized by the industry which awarded him the „Končar“ Award, given annually for the doctoral dissertation with an outstanding research achievement for industry application. Congratulations to Juraj!

The whole event can be seen at the link.

Filip Marić was an invited speaker at...

LAMOR's Filip Marić was an invited speaker at the Robotics: Science and Systems Workshop on Geometry and Topology in Robotics (RSS '21) held on July 15, 2021. In his lecture titled "Of Ellipsoids and Distances: Reconsidering Robot Kinematics" he discussed how advances in computational geometry open up new perspectives for reasoning about robot kinematics. 

You can see his presentation here.

Prof. Petrović received Fran...

The recipient of the University of Zagreb Fran Bošnjaković award for 2021 is LAMOR’s Prof. Ivan Petrović who got acknowledged for his scientific achievements, promotion of the science, his contribution in the exchange of knowledge and especially for education of young professionals. Congratulations to Prof. Petrović!

This award has been awarded by The University of Zagreb for the achievements in the technical fields since 1994. 

On October 15, 2021 Prof. Petrović held an invited lecture titled “Autonomy and interaction capabilities of robots in performing complex tasks” at the 21st International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS 2021), addressing the main robotics challenges in the next few decades - development of autonomous robotic systems that can perform complex tasks in human environments and safely cooperate with humans. In his talk Professor Petrović also presented LAMOR’s recent research activities and achievements and discussed open research challenges and potential directions for future research.

IAS-17 Call for participation

LAMOR is privileged to host the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-17, https://www.ias-17.org/), taking place in Zagreb, Croatia on June 13-16, 2022.

IAS-17 will provide an inspiring forum of scientists, engineers, and students coming from all around the world to present and discuss the latest scientific results, technologies, and ideas enabling intelligent autonomous systems to perform in a safe, skillful, and robust manner handling uncertainty and unforeseen events.

We cordially invite you to help us making IAS-17 a great success and a memorable event by submitting your paper, organizing an invited session, workshop, or tutorial, participating in the technical program and enjoying the beauty of Zagreb and its lifestyle.

LAMOR, DATACROSS Project and Centre of Research Excellence for Data Science and Cooperative Systems - ACROSS Research Unit, invite you to the lecture:

"Bio-inspired Methods for Sensing and Instrumentation"

which will be held by Prof. Amit MishraUniversity of Cape Town, South Africa. The lecture will take place on Monday, October 18, 2021, at 11.00h, in the Gray Hall of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing.

You can find more about the lecturer and the seminar in the detailed news content.

Job Announcement for ERA Chair in...

LAMOR is looking for an expert! 

We are announcing an open position for ERA Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Robotics in the framework of the H2020 project AIFORS to establish and lead a Research Group for Artificial Intelligence for Robotics.

For a detailed job description please read the Job Announcement. It is also available on the Euraxess and FER Web.

The deadline for the job application is November 10, 2021.

Interested candidates should contact us at ivan.petrovic@fer.hr 

Antea Hadviger's internship at...

Our PhD student Antea Hadviger was awarded with a 3-month research internship at Google. She worked in a team from the Google AI division stationed in Berlin. The main research area of the project was computer vision and computer graphics for image analysis, using deep learning techniques. Congratulations to Antea!

Paper published in Robotics and...

LAMOR publishes in the Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing journal:

Popović, Goran; Cvišić, Igor; Écorchard, Gaël; Marković, Ivan; Přeučil, Libor; Petrović, Ivan. Human localization in robotized warehouses based on stereo odometry and ground-marker fusion. // Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. 2022

The paper can be accessed via the following link.

LAMOR publishes in IEEE Signal...

LAMOR publishes in the the IEEE Signal Processing Letters journal:

Bićanić, Borna; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan. Multi-Target Tracking on Riemannian Manifolds via Probabilistic Data Association // IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 28 (2021), 1555-1559

The paper can be accessed via the following link or on the journal's website.

LAMOR's newest PhD students are...

LAMOR's newly recruited PhD students Jelena Gregorić, Karlo Koledić, Ivan Bilić and Nikola Banović featured on the #superstudenti project that is led by the Students Council of the University of Zagreb. You can check out the episode on Facebook or Instagram.

Prof. Petrović on Z1 television

Z1 show called "The University Zagreb" featured a piece on LAMOR's SafeLog and SafeTRAM projects. Prof. Petrović also talked about our collaboration with Croatian industry. The show can be accessed via the following link.

Juraj Peršić defends his PhD thesis

On July 16, 2021 LAMOR's Juraj Peršić successfully defended his doctoral dissertation and received a Doctor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Juraj’s thesis is titled “Extrinsic and temporal calibration of heterogeneous exteroceptive mobile robot sensor systems”. Congratulations to dr. Peršić!

The presentation of the Croatian...

On June 29, 2021, at DOK-ING d.o.o. premises, LAMOR was present at the final conference of the IRI project DUV-NRKBE - Development of a remotely controlled vehicle for operation in extreme CBRNe conditions, funded by the European Regional Development Fund. DOK-ING built the vehicle named KOMODO for which LAMOR developed the autonomy software. The KOMODO vehicle is equipped with the Velodyne 3D laser sensor, Trimble GPS sensor, an onboard Teguar PC with the autonomy ROS-based software, MPU5 radio for communication between the onboard PC and the base station with QGIS for setting the waypoint and patrolling routes to the vehicle. Check out the latest video presenting the project. 

Technical Museum Nikola Tesla's...

For this year's Science Fair, organized by the Technical Museum Nikola Tesla, we made an online robotics lecture and a workshop. You can check out the content on the Museum's YouTube Channel:

"Robots, androids and artificial intelligence through cartoons and movies", lecture by Ivan Markovic, link

"robotics@fer.hr", workshop organized together with FER's robotics laboratories LABUST and LARICS, link.

 

LAMOR publishes in IEEE Transactions...

LAMOR publishes in the the IEEE Transactions on Robotics journal:

Peršić, Juraj; Petrović, Luka; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan. Spatiotemporal Multisensor Calibration via Gaussian Processes Moving Target Tracking // IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2021) doi:10.1109/TRO.2021.3061364.

The paper can be accessed via the following link or on the journal's website.

Ambassador of Portugal Paula Leal da...

Ambassador of Portugal Paula Leal da Silva visited FER on March 16, 2021. During the visit they talked to LAMOR's Ivan Petrovic about robotic activites carried out at our laboratory.

AIFORS project introduced by Poslovni...

Croatian daily newspaper Poslovni dnevnik and web portal Poslovni.hr have published an article introducing the AIFORS project, created within the Laboratory (LAMOR) under the coordination of professor Ivan Petrović, as one of two new research projects with Artificial Intelligence application started by FER.

Professor Petrović has pointed out that although Artificial Intelligence has been known and applied for some time we still aim to achieve the predictable and reliable behaviour of robots, which may in near future become possible with the application of advanced artificial intelligence methods. With the AIFORS project a new research group in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics will be established at FER, which will enable the Faculty to attract top researchers who will independently implement an ambitious research strategy in intelligent robotics. 

Marija Seder at Kyoto University

LAMOR's Marija Seder is currently with the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University employed as a Scholar (Kyoto University Visiting Associate professor) in charge of "Research on Intelligent Mobile Robots" from January 1, 2021 to March 31, 2021. She is closely cooperating with the team of HRI Lab (Human-Robot Interaction laboratory) led by Prof. Takayuki Kanda at the Department of Social Informatics.

LAMOR is hiring!

We are looking for research assistants (PhD students) to join us in developing novel technologies for autonomous robotics systems – 4 positions. We offer the opportunity to work on implementing exciting EU projects and industrial research projects. Topics include  but are not limited to computer vision and multisensor fusion for vehicle navigation, dynamic path planning for mobile robots, multisensor robot simultaneous localization and mapping, and human-robot interaction. Candidates with M.Sc. in robotics, control, computer science, mathematics or similar field of study are welcome! Interested candidates should contact us at lamor@fer.hr.

Juraj Peršić's internship at...

Our PhD student Juraj Peršić has been awarded with an internship at Motional (former MIT spin-off nuTonomy) - an autonomous driving joint venture between Aptiv and Hyundai Motor Group. He will work at the division stationed in Singapore. His topic focuses on developing perception algorithms for autonomous vehicles. Congratulations to Juraj!

Talks at EIT Manufacturing Webinar

Ivan Petrović and Ivan Marković gave talks on December 9, 2020 at the EIT Mnufacturing Hub webinar titled "EIT Manufacturing - Collaborating for Innovation". We talked about our H2020 projects L4MS and SafeLog.

Republic of India Ambassador Raj...

Republic of India Ambassador Raj Kumar Srivastava visited FER on November 27, 2020. During the visit they talked to LAMOR's Ivan Petrovic and Marija Seder about robotic activites carried out at our laboratory.

Prof. Petrović on 5G and robotics

Croatian portal telegram.hr published an article on 5G and how it will influence healthcare and robotics. LAMOR's Ivan Petrović gave his thoughts on the aspects of using 5G in mobile robotics and autonomous systems.

IROS Workshop Best paper award

Our paper written in colaboration with Matthew Giamou and Jonathan Kelly of the Stars Laboratory, University of Toronto, received the Best Workshop Contribution award at the IROS 2020 Workshop on Bringing Geometric Methods to Robot Learning, Optimization and Control, sponsored by Bosch AI. Presentation can be accessed at the following link.

EIT Manufacturing Hub Kick-off

LAMOR participated at the EIT Manufacturing Croatia Hub Launch event that took place on October 15, 2020. Prof. Ivan Petrović was one of the panelist in the discussion titled "Strengthening Manufacturing Innovation in Croatia". The whole event can be accessed at the following link.

Croatian Robot Day@AI2FUTURE 2020,...

LAMOR participated at this year's AI2FUTURE conference by organizing a Robot Day section. We talked about our recent research results, ongoing projects, with special focus on logistics and manufacturing SMEs. Specifically, our SafeLog, L4MS and DIH2 projects were spotlighted. Talks were also available online via Zoom.

Talk at Hrvatska 4.0

LAMOR's Marija Seder gave a talk at the conference Hrvatska 4.0 titled Europe automatizing logistics in industry. The main scope of the talk was our project L4MS where we are mentoring application experiments to use the new industrial IoT system for manufacturing SMEs that is being developed within L4MS.

LAMOR publishes two papers in...

LAMOR publishes in the Advanced Robotics journal, the official journal of the Robotics Society of Japan:

Hadviger, Antea; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan. Stereo Dense Depth Tracking Based on Optical Flow using Frames and Events // Advanced Robotics (2020).

Peršić, Juraj; Petrović, Luka; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan. Online Multi-Sensor Calibration Based on Moving Object Tracking  // Advanced Robotics (2020).

The papers can be accessed via the following link.

LAMOR publishes in Robotics and...

LAMOR publishes in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal:

Petrović, Luka; Peršić, Juraj; Seder, Marija; Marković, Ivan. Cross-Entropy based Stochastic Optimization of Robot Trajectories using Heteroscedastic Continuous-time Gaussian Processes // Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2020.

The paper can be accessed via the following link or on the journal's website.

LAMOR publishes in Robotics and...

LAMOR publishes in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal with our PhD student from the Department of Mathematics, University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek:

Maltar, Jurica; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan, Visual Place Recognition using Directed Acyclic Graph Association Measures and Mutual Information-based Feature Selection // Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2020.

The paper can be accessed via the following link or on the journal's website.

Croatian president visits FER and...

Croatian president Zoran Milanović visited FER on May 09, 2020 and enjoyed robot demonstrators given by our director Prof. Ivan Petrović and other members of LAMOR. He also had a chance to talk via teleconference with our partners Prof. Danica Kragić from KTH, Sweden, and Prof. Björn Hein from KIT, Germany.

LAMOR's SafeLog and SafeTRAM...

Z1 show called "The University Zagreb" featured a piece on LAMOR's SafeLog project. Our project parner the Končar Electrical Engineering Institute talked about technology being developed within the projects and FER's Vice Dean for Research also gave a talk about technology transfer activites at our faculty. The show can be accessed via the following link.

LAMOR at Euronews

Within an article about high-tech start-ups in Croatia and Rimac automobili d.o.o., the Euronews team also visited FER and had chance to talk to LAMOR researchers where we presented some of our latest results. The original Euronews article can be found here.

L4MS Application Experiment receives...

Within the activities of the H2020 L4MS project, LAMOR's and ICENT's Application Experiment received the I4MS-SAE label for excellent implementation and high potential for further deployment and innovative aspect. LAMOR and ICENT acted in the capacity of the CTO-in-Residence and Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the experiment conducted by our Portugese partners: Ewen Energy and Procalçado S.A.

ETRI delegation visits LAMOR

On February 20, 2020 a delegation from the South Korean Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) visited LAMOR. ETRI is an institute numbering more than 2,000 researchers with headquarters in Daejeon. We discussed possible joint research actions and collaboration with focus on autonomous vehicles and mobile robotics.

LAMOR publishes in IEEE Transactions...

LAMOR publishes in the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics journal:

Joukov, Vladimir; Ćesić, Josip; Westermann, Kevin; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan; Kulić, Dana. Estimation and observability analysis of human motion on Lie groups. // IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 2019.

The paper can be accessed via the following link.

LAMOR publishes in the IEEE...

LAMOR publishes in the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems journal:

Klančar, Gregor; Seder, Marija; Blažič, Sašo; Škrjanc, Igor; Petrović, Ivan.
Drivable path planning using hybrid search algorithm based on E* and Bernstein-Bezier motion primitives. // IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems. 2019.

The paper can be accessed via the following link.

Prof. Petrović receives the IEEE...

On November 27, 2019, the executive board of the IEEE Croatia Section has awarded LAMOR's Ivan Petrović with the "Nikola Tesla Award" for extraordinary scientific, professional and educational contribution to the area of automatic control and autonomous mobile robotics. Congratulations to Prof. Petrović!

4th International Workshop on...

Project DATACROSS – Advanced methods and technologies in Data Science and Cooperative Systems  and The Centre of Research Excellence for Data Science and Advanced Cooperative Systems, research unit ACROSS, are organizing the following international scientific workshop taking place on November 28 and 29 at UNIZG-FER:

"4th International Workshop on Advanced Cooperative Systems"

Technical programme includes 4 invited lectures by renowned international researchers and 4 lectures by ACROSS leading researchers. We will also have a section of lectures given by ACROSS young researchers. Workshop is open to all interested scientists and doctoral students. Registration is free, but mandatory.

More information about the workshop and the registration form are available at the following link.

LAMOR at the Faculty Open Doors 2019

LAMOR participated at this year's Open Doors event of our Faculty. The event was organized as part of the University Fair. LAMOR members had the pleasure of showing robots and discussing robotics with prospective young roboticists.

LAMOR@IROS 2019, Macau, China

LAMOR's Filip Marić has attended the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2019), November 04-08, Macau, China, and presented the following paper:

  • Marić, Filip; Limoyo, Oliver; Petrović, Luka; Ablett, Trevor; Petrović, Ivan; Kelly, Jonathan. Fast Manipulability Maximization Using Continuous-Time Trajectory Optimization.

Croatian Robot Day@AI2FUTURE in...

We invite you to join us for this year's Croatian Robot Day taking place on October 10, 2019 as part of the largest conference on business AI applications in Croatia - AI2FUTURE. Co-organizers of this part of the programme, that will focus on robotics in logistics and agile production, are Zagreb's Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) and Innovation Centre Nikola Tesla (ICENT).

Programme will be presented and moderated by FER's professors Ivan Petrović and Ivan Marković, and alogside lectures from world experts Achim J. Lilienthal, University of Örebro, Sweden, and Björn Hein, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, you will also have the opportunity to hear Croatian examples of companies that have made a strong leap in this area - Gideon Brothers and RoMb Technologies. Furthermore, R&I activities of FER in this domain will be presented together with possibilities of equity free financing for robotics projects from EU H2020 funds.

You can find the detailed programme at the following link.

Participation at the Croatian Robot Day, taking place at the KRAŠ Auditorium in Zagreb, is free of charge under the condition of mandatory registration at the following link.

In order to participate at the whole AI2FUTURE conference, registration fee is mandatory.

DIH2 Launches its first Open Call

Are you looking for a way to make your production adapt to market changes and the needs of your customers? Are you working on robotics solutions for manufacturing companies?

The newly launched pan-European programme, DIH², is looking for manufacturing SMEs and Mid-Caps who face Agile Production challenges, as well as technology providers specialised in robotics.

The first open call will distribute up to €248,000 to 13 selected consortia. Each consortium will have a maximum of 3 members and must include a technology provider (e.g. a start-up, SME, research organisation, competence centre or any type of technology provider) and a manufacturing SME or Mid-Cap.

Benefits: up to €248,000 equity-free funding and premium technology transfer services.

Apply before 31 October 2019!

LAMOR@ECMR 2019, Prague, Czech Republic

Antea Hadviger, Luka Petrović, Ivan Marković and Ivan Petrović have attended the European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR2019), September 04-06, Prague, Czech Republic, with two papers presenting recent research results:

Director-General of DG Research and...

On July 15, 2019 Director-General of the European Comission's DG Research and Innovation Jean-Eric Paquet visited FER. During the visit he also came to the ACROSS laboratory, where he had the opportunity to get acquainted with robotic research carried out at UNIZG-FER, including LAMOR's activities.

LAMOR@FUSION 2019, Ottawa, Canada

Borna Bićanić has attended the International Conference on Information Fusion  (FUSION2019), July 02-05, Ottawa, Canada and presented the following paper:

The paper can be accessed via the following link.

LAMOR visits PILZ GmbH

LAMOR's Ivan Markovic together with delegation from the Končar Electrical Engineering Institute has visited the PILZ company, a world-leading automation solution provider of safety systems. Tour of the production facility was given and possible venues of collaboration discussed.

LAMOR@ICRA 2019, Montreal, Canada

Tomislav Petković has attended the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2019), May 20-24, Montreal, Canada and presented the following paper in Long-term Human Motion Prediction Workshop:

  • Petković, Tomislav; Hvězda, Jakub; Rybecký, Tomáš; Marković, Ivan; Kulich, Miroslav; Přeučil, Libor; Petrović, Ivan. Human Motion Prediction Framework for Safe Flexible Robotized Warehouses // IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2019), Long-term Human Motion Prediction Workshop. 2019.
U.S. Ambassador Robert Kohorst visits...

U.S. Ambassador Robert Kohorst and cultural attaché Laura Djuragic visited FER on May 22, 2019. During the visit they talked to LAMOR's Ivan Markovic about robotic activites carried out at FER and in the ACROSS laboratory.

About AI on the Croatian National...

On April 8, 2019 the Croatian National Television show "Dobar dan Hrvatska" featured LAMOR's Prof. Ivan Petrović. The topic was on AI and the show was motivated by the next day's round table "EU Declaration on Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence - how to harmonize actions in Croatia" that took place on April 9, 2019 and was organized by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and The Centre of Research Excellence for Data Science and Advanced Cooperative Systems.

The show is available online via the HRTi service.

Kruno Lenac gave a talk at FER's...

Former LAMOR member Kruno Lenac gave a talk on April 16, 2019 at FER's PhD Day as an awarded PhD student for his dissertation "Simultaneous mobile robot localization and three-dimensional modeling of unknown complex environments in real time".

17th Science Festival at the...

LAMOR, together with LABUST and LARICS, as robotics@fer.hr has participated at the Science Festival that took place from April 8-13, 2019 at the Technical Museum Nikola Tesla in Zagreb. A booth with various robots was organized for children to play with and Ivan Marković gave a lecture titled "Robots, androids, and AI through cartoons and movies".

LAMOR at the International Science...

The International Science Festival in Gothenburg (Sweden) is one of Europe’s leading popular science events. Theme of the Festival for this year is Astonishing thought. Participants are challenged with questions: what happens when we transfer the thinking process to machines and robots, and the I is no longer always human? What happens if the machines become more intelligent than we are? Professor Ivan Petrović and PhD student Tomislav Petković gave their answers and presented LAMOR's smart robots at the Festival. 

LAMOR's projects in the “HORIZON...

New publication of the Ministry of Science and Education and Agency for Mobility and EU Programmes “HORIZON 2020 Success Stories in Croatia” features LAMOR's projects SafeLog and L4MS under Industrial Leadership and ACROSS under Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation, as successful examples of the HORIZON 2020 programme. The whole brochure is available at the following link.

Conference on New Technologies,...

Prof. Ivan Petrović held a lecture titled “Robotics in Croatia's Development - Situation, Perspectives and Challenges” on a conference Croatia 4.0 - Conference on New Technologies, Robotics and Automation in Industry and Building, while Asst. Prof. Ivan Marković was part of organizational committee. See more about the conference here

EU sets standards for artificial...

In the light of new EU guidelines for artificial intelligence (Draft Ethic guidelines for trustworthy AI available here), Prof. Ivan Petrović gave an interview for the online portal novac.jutarnji.hr. See the full article here

Ivan Marković held a lecture at the...

Under the auspices of the student organization PROBION of the Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, Ivan Marković held a popular lecture on robotics titled 'Autonomous and Intelligent robots - omnipresent in the future everyday life'. More about the lecture can be found at the following event announcement.

ACROSS project contributes to...

Online portal Euractiv.hr, part of a media network specializing in EU policy, brings an interview with Tome Antičić, the State Secretary at the Ministry of Science and Education, who talked about LAMOR's project ACROSS. The project led by prof Ivan Petrović passed the 1st phase as one of the top 5 among the 208 applicants.  What could the second phase bring, read more at the following link.

Visit to KIT and AutonomouStuff in...

During the visit to Karlsruhe Institute of Technology through the bilateral project financed by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Ministry of Science and Education of Croatia, LAMOR researchers also also had the chance to visit AutonomouStuff at Karlsruhe and discuss about their autonomous vehicle technologies and platforms.

Titan V GPU received through NVIDIA...

NVIDIA granted us a Titan V GPU as a part of the Academic Hardware Grant program. We are grateful to NVIDIA for providing our lab with a state-of-the-art GPU for physics simulation and faster training of deep neural networks. Looking forward to some cutting edge research on deep learning!

Paper published in Robotics and...

LAMOR publishes in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal, Special Issue on Autonomous Driving and Driver Assistance Systems:

Peršić, Juraj; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan.
Extrinsic 6DoF Calibration of a Radar-LiDAR-Camera System Enhanced by Radar Cross Section Estimates Evaluation. // Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 2018.

The paper can be accessed via the following link.

Tech Xplore interview

Tech Xplore, an online news source covering latest engineering, electronics and technology advances and part of the Science X network, has recently published an interview with LAMOR's Tomislav Petković about the recent paper on human intention estimation. The  article can be accessed via the following link.

LAMOR at the University Fair 2018

Together with LABUST and LARICS, as part of the Faculty of Electrical Engieering and Computing booth, we presented robotics@fer.hr at this year's University Fair, which was hosted by the Student Center from November 22-24, 2017. We also presented Kincet based root arm teleoperation during the Open Doors event at the Faculty.

Paper published in Robotics and...

LAMOR publishes in the Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing journal:

Petković, Tomislav; Puljiz, David; Marković, Ivan; Hein, Bjoern.
Human Intention Estimation based on Hidden Markov Model Motion Validation for Safe Flexible Robotized Warehouses. // Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. 2018

The paper can be accessed via the following link.

LAMOR@ERW 2018 under the...

LAMOR will be taking part in ERW 2018 under the robotics@fer.hr brand, together with our colleagues from LABUST and LARICS! 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!

SOFT-SLAM top downloaded paper in...

LAMOR's paper "SOFT-SLAM: Computationally efficient stereo visual simultaneous localization and mapping for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles" is one of the Journal of Field Robotics' top 20 most downloaded recent papers. Amongst papers published between July 2016 and June 2018, LAMOR's SOFT-SLAM received some of the highest downloads in the 12-months post online publication.

16th International Innovation...

LAMOR participated at ARCA 2018 from October 18-20, 2018, where we presented our autonomous omnidirectional mobile platform for pallet transport being developed within the scope of the L4MS project and ICENT. For this innovation, LAMOR was awarded with the ARCA Silver medal.

LAMOR@IROS 2018, Madrid, Spain

Ivan Petrović, Ivan Marković, Filip Marić, Goran Popović and Tomislav Petković have attended the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2018), October 01-05, Madrid, Spain. They participated in the exibition part of the conference presenting SafeLog at the project booth running prepared demos. The following research paper was presented:

  • Filip Marić; Oliver Limoyo; Luka Petrović; Ivan Petrović; Jonathan Kelly. Manipulability Maximization Using Continuous-Time Gaussian Processes // Workshop: "Towards Robots that Exhibit Manipulation Intelligence", International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2018). Madrid, Spain, 2018.

Ivan Marković also gave a talk titled "Safety vest and human localization for human-robot collaboration" at the workshop "Robotics for logistics in warehouses and environments shared with humans".

L4MS (Logistics for Manufacturing SMEs), the pan-European acceleration program for using robotics in manufacturing industry, has launched its first Open Call with equity-free funding up to €250 000. More info about the call can be found in the detailed news content.

LAMOR@SYROCO 2018, Budapest, Hungary

Ivan Petrović, Marija Seder, Ivan Marković, Goran Popović, Antea Hadviger, Luka Petrović and Ana Šelek have attended the 12th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control (SYROCO2018), August 27-30, Budapest, Hungary, with three papers presenting recent research results:

  • Petrović, Luka; Marković, Ivan; Seder, Marija. Multi-agent Gaussian Process Motion Planning via Probabilistic Inference
  • Popović, Goran; Hadviger, Antea; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan.
    Computationally efficient dense moving object detection based on reduced space disparity estimation
  • Šelek, Ana; Seder, Marija; Petrović, Ivan
    Mobile Robot Navigation for Complete Coverage of an Environment
Invitation to the lecture...

Under the auspices of the Foundation Jasna Šimunić Hrvoić, LAMOR and IEEE Croatia Robotics and Automation Chapter invite you to the lecture:

"Multi-task Imitation Learning: Increasing the Versatility of Robotic Manipulators"

which will be held by Trevor Ablett, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, Canada. The lecture will take place on Friday, July 20, 2018 at 10.30h, in the Seminar room of the Department of Control and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing.

You can find more about the lecturer and the seminar in the detailed news content.

Invitation to the lecture:...

LAMOR, IEEE Croatia Robotics and Automation Chapter and ZCI-DATACROSS invite you to the lecture:

"Multi-Modal User Interfaces for Intuitive Human-Robot Interaction"

which will be held by Michael Mende, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. The lecture will take place on Friday, July 20, 2018 at 11.30h, in the Seminar room of the Department of Control and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing.

You can find more about the lecturer and the seminar in the detailed news content.

Invitation to the lecture:...

LAMOR, IEEE Croatia Robotics and Automation Chapter and ZCI-DATACROSS invite you to the lecture:

"Model-Aided Navigation Accuracy for AUVs in Deep-Sea"

which will be held by David Oertel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. The lecture will take place on Friday, July 20, 2018 at 11.00h, in the Seminar room of the Department of Control and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing.

You can find more about the lecturer and the seminar in the detailed news content.

LAMOR - Laboratory for Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robotics, ACROSS CoE - Centre of Excellence for Autonomous and Cooperative Robotic Systems, IEEE Croatia Robotics and  Automation Chapter, ZCI-DATACROSS and H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics" invite you to the lecture:

"From knowing where you are to understanding where you are"

which will be held by Prof. Patrick Jensfelt, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 11.00h, in the Gray Hall of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing.

You can find more about the lecturer and the seminar in the detailed news content.

Ivan Marković receives the Young...

Croatian Academy of Engineering has celebrated its 25th anniversary on May 21, 2018. During the ceremonial session annual awards were given and the Young Scientist Award "Vera Johanides" was awarded to LAMOR's Ivan Marković. Congratulations to Ivan!

Paper published in the International...

LAMOR publishes in the International Journal of Robotics Research:

Lenac, Kruno; Ćesić, Josip; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan.
Exactly Sparse Delayed State Filter on Lie groups for Long-term Pose Graph SLAM. // International Journal of Robotics Research. (2018)

The paper can be accessed via the following link.

LAMOR at the Night of Science in...

On May 18, 2018 Ivan Marković held a lecture titled "Robots, androids and AI through cartoons and movies" during the third in a row Night of Science in Pregrada. The event was organized and hosted by the primary school "Janko Leskovar".

 

Forum: Innovation and technology...

On 9th May 2018 at University of Zagreb a round table titled "The Centre of Research Excellence for Data Science and Advanced Cooperative Systems" was held within the scope of the "Innovation and technology transfer - an incentive for economic development in Croatia" forum in organization of the University of Zagreb and Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Within the round table Prof. Petrović presented activities of the Cooperative Systems Research Unit and the TEAMING ACROSS project.

 

Prof. Petrović gave an interview for Croatian newspapers "Jutarnji list" on current projects. So far, Prof. Petrovic led more than 30 domestic and 20 international scientific projects, so it could be said that he is the spiritus movens of networking of the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing with European scientific institutions and companies. Prof. Petrović is currently involved in the preparation of a capital project worth EUR 35 million - a project aiming at establishing a Center of Excellence for Autonomous and Cooperative Robotic Systems - ACROSS, a jointly promising undertaking with the Royal Institute of Technology (KHT) from Stockholm.

The whole interview can be found on the newspapers' site.

Prof. Petrović receives the Croatian...

Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts held a ceremonial session during which Academy Awards for highest scientific and arts achievements in 2017 were awarded. For the area of technical sciences the award was given to LAMOR's Prof. Ivan Petrović for research in autonomous navigation of mobile robots in unknown and dynamic environments. Congratulations to Prof. Petrović!

Paper published in Journal of Field...

LAMOR publishes in the Journal of Field Robotics:

Cvišić, Igor; Ćesić, Josip; Marković, Ivan; Petrović, Ivan. SOFT-SLAM: Computationally Efficient Stereo Visual SLAM for Autonomous UAVs. // Journal of Field Robotics.

The paper can be accessed via the following link.

16th Science Festival at the...

LAMOR, together with LABUST and LARICS, as robotics@fer.hr has participated at the Science Festival that took place from April 16-21, 2018 at the Technical Museum Nikola Tesla in Zagreb. A booth with various robots was organized for children to play with and Ivan Marković gave a lecture titled "Robots, androids, and AI through cartoons and movies".

Prof. Petrović on the European...

Prof. Petrović gave an interview for the Croatian weekly magazine Globus, commenting on the European Commission's AI pact and Croatia's involvement. He stated how it is important for Croatia to join the initiative to enable networking of companies and academia with EU partners, resulting with further strengthening and growth of this sector in Croatia.

The whole interview can be found on the magazine's site.

Invitation to the lecture: Embodiment...

LAMOR - Laboratory for Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robotics, ACROSS CoE - Centre of Excellence for Autonomous and Cooperative Robotic Systems, IEEE Croatia Robotics and Automation Chapter, ZCI-DATACROSS and H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics" invite you to 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, April 17th, 2018 at 09.30h, in seminar room at ZARIbuilding C, 9th floor.

You can find more about the lecturer and the seminar in the detailed news content.

Croatian Agency for SMEs, Innovation...

Croatian daily newspaper Večernji list has published an article about project SafeTRAM within a report about the activities of the Croatian Agency for SMEs, Innovation and Investment.

The article can be accessed at the following link

Invitation to the lecture: Underwater...

LAMOR - Laboratory for Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robotics, ACROSS CoE - Centre of Excellence for Autonomous and Cooperative Robotic Systems, IEEE Croatia Robotics and Automation Chapter, ZCI-DATACROSS and H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics" invite you to 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, April 17th, 2018 at 11.00h, in seminar room at ZARIbuilding C, 9th floor.

You can find more about the lecturer and the seminar in the detailed news content.

Invitation to the lecture:...

 

LAMOR - Laboratory for Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robotics, ACROSS CoE - Centre of Excellence for Autonomous and Cooperative Robotic Systems, IEEE Croatia Robotics and Automation Chapter, ZCI-DATACROSS and H2020 project "EXCELLABUST - Excelling LABUST in marine robotics" invite you to 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, April 17th, 2018 at 10.15h, in seminar room at ZARIbuilding C, 9th floor.

You can find more about the lecturer and the seminar in the detailed news content.

Igor Cvišić defends his PhD thesis!

On March 28, 2018 LAMOR's Igor Cvišić successfully defended his doctoral dissertation and received a Doctor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Igor’s thesis is titled “Real-time visual odometry for robust navigation in unknown complex environments”. Congratulations to dr. Cvišić!

Mariya Gabriel and Dubravka Šuica...

European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel and Croatian member of the European Parliament Dubravka Šuica participated in an event called Citizens' Dialogue hosted by UNIZG-FER on March 23, 2018. During their visit they also visited the ACROSS laboratory, where they had the opportunity to get acquainted with robotic research activities carried out by the three UNIZG-FER robotics laboratories: LAMOR, LABUST and LARICS.

An article has been published in the Globus magazine including interviews with Prof. Danica Kragic of KTH, who talked about her new AI initiative project financed by the Knut and Alice Wallen­berg foundation, and Prof. Ivan Petrovic, who talked about the Teaming ACROSS project and collaboration with KTH. The article can be accessed at the following link.

LAMOR at European Robotics Forum 2018...

Together with other UNIZG-FER robotic laboratories, LABUST and LARICS, LAMOR had a booth presenting the Teaming ACROSS project. It was a great opportunity to share news and future opportunities with many European companies, researchers and stakeholders about the project and recent laboratory activities.

L4MS and ACROSS at Croatian...

On Friday 2nd of March 2018 Croatian Academy of Engineering and Croatian Engineering Association organised Croatian Engineers’ Day with topic Industry 4.0. Prof. Ivan Petrović gave short presentation about challenges and perspectives of Industry 4.0 and presented L4MS and ACROSS projects.

LAMOR at 10th Schunk International...

Ivan Petrović and Ivan Marković have participated in the 10th edition of Schunk International Expert Days on Service Robotics in Lauffen, Germany.

The theme of the event was titled 'Smart Future with Cobots and Co-acts' which gave rise to an opportunity to see many excellent presentations and network with experts in service and assistance robotics.

 

Prof. Ivan Petrović on Croatian...

In the scientific show Prometej on the Croatian National Television, Prof. Ivan Petrović talked about current research challenges in autonomous systems and mobile robotics. He also presented his laboratory, the Laboratory for Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robotics, as well as the Centre of Excellence for Autonomous and Cooperative Robotic Systems (ACROSS) and the Centre of Research Excellence for Data Science and Cooperative Systems (DATACROSS). 

You can see the whole show on this link.

LAMOR on Croatian National Television

Professor Ivan Petrović and PhD student Ivana Čuljak were guests on the Croatian National Television "Hrvatska za 5" where they talked about the Centre of Research Excellence for Data Science and Cooperative Systems - DATACROSS.

The whole show can be accessed via the following link.

 

LAMOR attended General Assembly of...

LAMOR's team members Tomislav Petković, Goran Popović and Ivan Marković have attended the General Assembly of the SafeLog project in Prague, now entering the second half of the four years. They had the opportunity to present current project results and discuss future actions and technology integration scenarios.

DOK-ING and LAMOR are developing a...

The project deals with vehicle development for CBRNe conditions, that is nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological and explosive threats.

The work of LAMOR relates to the development of algorithms for the autonomy of the vehicle developed by DOK-ING. This is particularly important with regards to heavy work conditions, such as fire or radioactive contamination. For example, in the case of communication failure between the operator and the vehicle itself, the vehicle should autonomously return to the area from where it started.

More info on HRT and Jutarnji list and on our projects website.

LAMOR on Croatian National Television

In the scope of the "Prometej" show, which airs on the Croatian National Television, LAMOR has had a chance to talk about our recent research results and projects. The show was aired on January 4, 2018 and can be accessed at the following link.

Kruno Lenac defends his PhD thesis!

On December 20, 2017 LAMOR's Kruno Lenac successfully defended his doctoral dissertation and received a Doctor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Kruno’s thesis was entitled “Simultaneous mobile robot localization and three-dimensional modeling of unknown complex environments in real time”. Congratulations to dr. Lenac!

tportal.hr about SafeTRAM and LAMOR

Web site tportal has published an article about the SafeTRAM project and the KEEI's project coordinator dr. sc. Zlatka Tečec Ribarić. You can find more about the article at the following link.

Research seminar: "Distributed...

LAMOR is inviting you to the reserach seminar organized under the auspices of ACROSS CoE:

"Distributed hybrid control of multi-agent systems under high level specifications"

which will be given by Prof. Dimos V. Dimarogonas, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

The seminar will take place on Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 11h, in the Gray Hall of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing.

You can find more about the lecturer and the seminar in the detailed news content.

DATACROSS project Kick-off

Centre of Research Excellence for Data Science and Advanced Cooperative Systems (DATACROSS) was presented at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing of University of Zagreb. Within the project more than 40 new researchers will be employed. The Centre comprises two research units: the Research Unit for Data Science (RU DATASCIENCE, coordinated by Prof. Sven Lončarić) and the Research Unit for Cooperative Systems (RU ACROSS coordinated by Prof. Ivan Petrović).

Visit to SAAB

TEAMING partners (including LAMOR's Ivan Petrović and Ivan Marković) visited SAAB facilities in Linköping, Sweden. Furthermore, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing and SAAB with the goal of creating the Centre of Excellence for Autonomous and Cooperative Robotic Systems (ACROSS). Several media houses also published the news (Večernji list, Lider, HRT).

TEAMING ACROSS  Spin-off...

Representatives from the Croatian ACROSS partners participated in the ACROSS Spin-off workshop organized by the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). Besides visiting KTH's laboratories, visits to Sweden's Innovation Agency (Vinnova) and Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) were also organized.

LAMOR@ROBOT2017, Seville, Spain

Tomislav Petković, Kruno Lenac and Goran Popović have attended the Third Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT2017), November 22-24, Seville, Spain, with three papers presenting recent research results:

LAMOR at the University Fair 2017

Together with LABUST and LARICS, as part of the Faculty of Electrical Engieering and Computing booth, we will present robotics@fer.hr at this year's University Fair, which is hosted by the Student Center from November 23-25, 2017. We will also be present during the Open Doors event at the Faculty on Saturday. Come and visit us!

Research seminar "Intraoperative...

Within the scope of the bilateral German-Crotian project "Human localization and intention recognition based on wearable sensors" LAMOR organized a lecture titled "Intraoperative Phase-Recognition for an Interactive Assistance in Surgical Interventions" which was held by Luzie Schreiter, a postodoctoral research from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.

LAMOR@L4MS Kick-off meeting in...

Ivan Petrović and Marija Seder, together with ICENT's Technology Monitoring and Market Analysis Manager Dr. Davorka Moslavac, attended the kick-off meeting of our new project titled Logistics for Manufacturing SMEs (L4MS). The objective of the project is to facilitate the take up of logistics automation by manufacturing SMEs across Europe by acting as a broker between SMEs, who seek solutions and financing, and the established Competence Centres and their ecosystem, who are interested to provide consulting, solutions, best practices and areas for demonstration and experimentation.

Josip Ćesić defends his PhD thesis

On September 29, 2017 LAMOR's Josip Ćesić successfully defended his doctoral dissertation and received a Doctor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Josip’s thesis is titled “Multiple moving objects tracking based on random finite sets and Lie groups”. Congratulations to dr. Ćesić!

LAMOR@IROS2017, Vancouver, Canada

Ivan Marković and Josip Ćesić have attended the IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2017), September 24-28, Vancouver, Canada, with two papers presenting recent research results

The second paper presented at the conference represents the result of a close collaboration with partners from the University of Waterloo. It was prepared in co-autorship of groups of Prof. Ivan Petrović and Prof. Dana Kulić from the University of Waterloo. 

Prof. Dana Kulić and researchers Vlad...

As a part of the cloudSLAM project, University of Waterloo researchers Prof. Dana Kulić, Vladimir Joukov and Kevin Westermann visited LAMOR in September, 2017. During their visit, partners participated in the cloudSLAM workshop and worked on finalizing the developed human motion estimation methods. In the forthcoming weeks they plan to submit the results for publication.

LAMOR in the media

Interviews with Prof. Petrović about LAMOR's recent research activites have been published in Poslovni dnevnik, Jutarnji list. Jutarnji list and Index.hr also talked with Prof. Dana Kulić about her research activities and collaboration with LAMOR on the cloudSLAM project. An article has also been published about Prof. Danica Kragić and her collaboration with LAMOR on the ACROSS project.

LAMOR on Radio Sljeme

On September 14, 2017, Prof. Ivan Petrović was a guest at a radio show called "From the world of science" of Radio Sljeme, where he talked about the Teaming project ACROSS. The whole interview can be downloaded here.

AROSS kick-off meeting at UNIZG-FER

On Monday 4th of September 2017 the Kick-off meeting of the project Centre of Excellence for Autonomous and Cooperative Robotic Systems - ACROSS took place at UNIZG-FER.

ACROSS project passed the first phase at the H2020-WIDESPREAD-2016-2017 call and is coordinated by Prof. Ivan Petrovic. The project is implemented in a strategic partnership as a long-term joint venture between the UNIZG-FER, the Royal Institute of Technology - KTH and the Innovation Centre Nikola Tesla - ICENT. 

Out of a total of 208 projects submitted to the European Commission public call, 30 projects from 12 countries were adopted for financing the first phase, which concernes the development of business plans of Centres of excellence. The ACROSS project is the only accepted project in the first phase of Teaming from Croatia (1.9.2017. – 31.8.2018).

The overall objective of the project is to create a Centre of Excellence for Autonomous and Cooperative Robotic Systems in Croatia (ACROSS CoE), which will be at the forefront of research and innovation of novel methodologies and advanced engineering approaches in the targeted domains. To achieve the overall objective, the proposal focuses on long-term objectives for Teaming Phase 2 and on one-year objective for Teaming Phase 1. If passed to the second phase ACROSS CoE will be supported by the EU with additional 15 million EUR and by the Croatian government with at least 15 million EUR for 7 years. Details about the project can be found at our project website.

International Workshop on Cooperative...

UKF project Cooperative cloud based simultaneous localization and mapping in dynamic environments (cloudSLAM) and Croatian Centre of Research Excellence for Data Science and Cooperative Systems, Research Unit for Advance Cooperative Systems, are organizing an international scientific workshop:

„International Workshop on Cooperative Dynamic Simultaneous Localization and Mapping“

The workshop will be held on September 192017, starting at 09:00 in Grey Hall at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing.

The technical program contains invited lectures given by renowned experts about research activities in the fields of Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) and Detection And Tracking of Moving Objects (DATMO). Research activities of cloudSLAM project will be presented through the poster session and experimental demonstration. More details about the workshop and invited speakers is available on the workshop webpage.

The workshop is open to all interested participants, with obligatory prior registration no later than September 11, 2017.

Agenda of the workshop is available in the detailed news content.

Paper published in the IFAC Automatica

LAMOR publishes in the IFAC Automatica journal:

Ćesić, Josip; Marković, Ivan; Bukal, Mario; Petrović, Ivan.
Extended Information Filter on Matrix Lie Groups. // Automatica. 82 (2017) ; 226-234

The paper can be accessed via the following link.

SafeTRAM project accepted

LAMOR, together with the project partner Končar Electrical Engineering Institute, has received a European Regional Development Fund grant. SafeTRAM, or System for Increased driving safety in public urban rail traffic, is a project aiming to develop an innovative system which would increase traffic safety by implementing safety functions for urban rail traffic, thus lowering the number of accidents causing great material damage and human casualties. For more details please visit our research projects page.

LAMOR at the Technical Museum Zagreb...

Together with the Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems - LARICS and the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies - LABUST, LAMOR presented robotics research at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (robotics@fer.hr) at the Science Fair organized by the Technical Museum Nikola Tesla in Zagreb. The Science Fair took place from 24th until 29th April 2017. LAMOR's Ivan Marković also held a lecture for children under the title "Robots, androids and artificial intelligence through movies and cartoons" and gave an interview for the Croatian radio station Yammat.fm.

LAMOR's Prof. Ivan Petrović...

LAMOR's Prof. Petrović is the coordinator of the recently accepted first Croatian WIDESPREAD Teaming Phase I project. The overall objective is to create a Centre of Excellence for Autonomous and Cooperative Robotic Systems in Croatia, which will be at the forefront of research and innovation of novel methodologies and advanced engineering approaches in the targeted domains. The Centre will be created and run as a long-term joint venture between the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, the Royal Institute of Technology, and the Innovation Centre Nikola Tesla. For more information visit our research projects page.

LAMOR at ERF2017

Prof. Ivan Petrović has participated at the annual European Robotics Forum (ERF) in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. The opportunity was also taken to have a SafeLog project meeting with other partners attending ERF.

RoboCom++ Kick-off meeting

Prof. Ivan Petrović and Asst. Prof. Ivan Marković participated on behalf of LAMOR at the RoboCom++ Kick-off meeting that was held on March 6 and 7, 2017 at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pontedera, Italy. RoboCom++ is a three year FLAG-ERA Joint Transnational Research project and aims to provide guidance on the future of interdisciplinary robotics research, bringing together robotics and neuroscience.

LAMOR at 100posto.hr

In January reporters from a Croatian portal named 100posto.hr visited our Faculty and made a video reportage about robotics at our Faculty and about the role robotics could play in the future. The whole article can be found at the following link.

LAMOR's Luka Fućek at CES 2017...

Luka Fućek, as one of the founders of STEMI, together with the rest of the STEMI team presented their hexapod robot and educational online platform at CES 2017 - worlds largest consumer electronics show based in Las Vegas. They had the opportunity to present their work to technology journalists, investors and distributors from all over the world. Their research started as a master thesis at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb under the mentroship of Prof. Stjepan Bogdan, PhD.

LAMOR hosted SafeLog General Assembly

SafeLog General Assembly was held at our Faculty on January 24 and 25. We had productive and fruitful discussions and overview of the project's first year results. We are happy to have been able to welcome our project partners!

LAMOR at University Fair

Together with the Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems - LARICS and the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies - LABUST, LAMOR presented robotics research at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (robotics@fer.hr) at the annual University of Zagreb Fair. The University of Zagreb Fair was held from 17th until 19th November 2016.

LAMOR at Humanoids2016

Two members of the LAMOR, Prof. Ivan Petrović and Josip Ćesić, have attended the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids2016), November 15-17, Cancun, Mexico, and have presented a paper with  recent results achieved within the cloudSLAM project.

The work presented at the conference represents the result of a close collaboration of project partners from the University of Waterloo and University of Zagreb. It was prepared in co-autorship of groups of Prof. Ivan Petrović and Prof. Dana Kulić from the University of Waterloo. 

Centre of Excellence Research Unit for Advanced Cooperative Systems ACROSS organize international scientific workshop

2nd ACROSS Workshop on Advanced Cooperative Systems“

The workshop will be held on  November 29 (Tuesday), 2016, starting at 09:00 in Grey Hall at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER).

Technical program contains invited lectures given by renowned experts about about top research activities in the field of advance cooperative control systems and its applications. Research activities of IJ ACROSS members in this field will be presented through the poster session.

The workshop is open to all interested participants, with obligatory prior notification on e-mail mirjana.stjepanovic@fer.hr, no later than November 24 (Thursday), 2016 until 14:00.

Agenda of the workshop is now available in the detailed news content

LAMOR at Croatian National Television

In the scope of the "Prometej" show, which airs on the Croatian National Television, LAMOR has had a chance to talk about our recent research results and projects. The show was aired on October 20, 2016 and can be accessed at the following link starting at 55 min.

Paper published in the IEEE...

LAMOR publishes in the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology journal:

Seder, Marija; Baotić, Mato; Petrović, Ivan. Receding Horizon Control for Convergent Navigation of a Differential Drive Mobile Robot. // IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. (2016)

The article can be accessed via the following link.

Prof. Dana Kulić and researcher...

As a part of the cloudSLAM project, Prof. Dana Kulić and researcher Vladimir Joukov visited on August 22 - August 26, 2016.

During their visit, we have worked on development of algorithms for dynamic SLAM, particularly working on human motion estimation based on inertial measurement units. Within the short period of time the team succeeded to implement a novel estimation method.

Research seminar "Human Motion...

Within the cloudSLAM project LAMOR is organizing a lecture titled "Human Motion Analysis for Automated Rehabilitation" which will be held by Prof. Dana Kulić, University of Waterloo, Canada.

The event will take place on 26th of August 2016, starting from 11:00 a.m. in the Seminar Hall C9-02 (9th floor) at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. More about the speaker and seminar you can find in the detailed news content.

LAMOR presented two papers at FUSION2016

Asst. Prof. Ivan Marković and Josip Ćesić, have attended the 19th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), July 5-8, Heidelberg, Germany, and gave oral presentations of two papers. The papers took part in the Special Session on Directional Estimation.

Representatives of the World Bank...

As part of the implementation activities related to monitoring of UKF funded projects, delegation of representatives of the World Bank (Mrs. Arabela Aprahamian, Mrs. Manuela Stanculescu, Mrs. Sanja Živković and Mr. Todor Milchevski), the Unity Through Knowledge Fund (Mrs. Alessia Pozzi and Mr. Darko Huljenić) and the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports (Mr. Duško Stajić) have visited the cloudSLAM team at FER on June 1, 2016.

Prof. Petrović, as the leader and principal investigator of the cloudSLAM project, has presented recent work and some already delivered results. He has also given the overview of the implemented dissemination activities related to the project.

The guests have provided their valuable feedback and expressed their satisfaction with the progress rate of the project activities. The cloudSLAM team will be happy to host the delegation again in the nearest future!

Paper published in the Robotics and...

LAMOR publishes in the Robotics and Autonomous Systems journal:

Ćesić, Josip; Marković, Ivan; Cvišić, Igor; Petrović, Ivan. Radar and stereo vision fusion for multitarget tracking on the special Euclidean group. // Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 83 (2016) ; 338-348..

The article can be accessed via the following link.

SafeLog General Assembly at...

LAMOR participated in the periodical General Assembly Meeting and Workshop Day which took place at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML) in Dortmund on June 28 and 29. We also visited the labs of the IML to get to know the institute and the research being done there.

LAMOR's Jaco arm at the 11th...

LAMOR's master student Filip Marić and Ivan Marković programmed our Kinova Jaco arm to reveal the Golden Key awards for the best exporters and hand the awardee names at the annual 11th Croatian Exporters ceremony. The ceremony took place in the Crystal Ballroom of the Westin hotel in Zagreb.

Job Fair presentation of the laboratory

The LAMOR work was presented together with the work of the Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems - LARICS and the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies - LABUST as part of the robotics@fer.hr brand. 

More than 2,000 students got a chance to get to know the laboratories' members,  their research and academia activities, and the equipment and technologies used.

Job Fair is a career fair that was held on 9th and 10th of May in the halls of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), University of Zagreb (UNIZG), Croatia. It gathered the best students and companies in the field of electronics, information technology and computing.

First cloudSLAM visit to University...

As a part of the cloudSLAM project, Prof. Ivan Petrović and researcher Josip Ćesić visited the Adaptive Systems Laboratory at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, April 23 - May 01, 2016 and April 23 - May 09, 2016, respectively.

During the visit, partners have worked on development of estimation algorithms as a basis for dynamic SLAM solution. Even within the short period of time, in close collaboration with Prof. Dana Kulić from the University of Waterloo and her team, they succeeded to implement the expected activities. Alongside, they have also defined the forthcoming development and implementation activities that will lead towards successful completion of the project goals.

LAMOR participation at ERF...

Together with the Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems - LARICS and the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies - LABUST, LAMOR presented robotics research at UNIZG-FER (robotics@fer.hr) at the European Robotics Forum - ERF 2016 in front of more than 650 visitors. ERF2016 was held from 21st until 23rd March 2016 in Ljubljana (Slovenia). All three laboratories represented the equipment they developed and research conducted by their members.

Read more about robotics@fer.hr affiliation here.

LAMOR at N1 television

Ivan Marković, PhD was a guest in the live show "Novi dan" at N1 television hosted by Tihomir Ladišić with whom he discussed recent results and challenges in robotics. The whole excerpt can be watched at the following link.

SafeLog Kick-off meeting and visit to...

On the 1st of February, LAMOR visited within the SafeLog project a 3PL (third-party logistics) warehouse at an e-commerce company which enabled us to get a hands-on approach to the problems persons working in a highly automated and innovated warehouse are facing today.

From the 2nd of February till the 4th of February, LAMOR participated in the SafeLog Kick-Off-Meeting at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Karlsruhe. We took care of formal issues like the expected work for the deliverables ahead, an introduction to all work packages and a brief discussion on milestones and possible project risks in the General Assembly first. There we focused in groups on the topics Safety Concept, Safety Vest, Heterogeneous Fleet Management and Augmented Reality.

 


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