AIFORS - ERA Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Robotics
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The six-year AIFORS project will create an ERA Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Robotics at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG-FER). This ERA Chair will be an outstanding researcher who will establish and lead a Research Group for Artificial Intelligence for Robotics (AIFORS Research Group) and contribute to implementation of organizational changes at UNIZG-FER. The AIFORS Research Group will be assigned to LAMOR and the ERA Chair holder will report to the Head of the Laboratory. This will open UNIZG-FER to a new research direction with a high potential for research outputs and technology innovation. The project will also allow UNIZG-FER to drive structural changes to increase their capacities for research funding, to encourage researchers’ mobility, to align the human resources and research management policies to the European Research Area principles, and to better disseminate and exploit research results. It is expected that the AIFORS project will significantly step up UNIZG-FER’s research and innovation excellence and build capacities to sustain it beyond the project and across research groups. |
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Funding | H2020 - H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-2020 ERA Chairs (Total budget:
2.5 million EUR, UNIZG-FER: 2.5 million EUR) |
Duration | 01.01.2021 - 31.12.2026 |
Website | https://aifors.fer.hr |
FITNESS - Flexible IntelligenT NEar-field Sensing Skins
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The main project objective consists in realizing smart flexible surfaces with sparse electronics, using advanced electromagnetic metasurfaces, with sensitivity that decreases with distance from the surface. Short term applications lie in the field of robotics; long-term ones in the field of healthcare. |
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Funding | HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN (Total budget:
3.6 million EUR) |
Duration | 01.04.2023 - 31.03.2027 |
Website | https://fitness-pathfinder.eu/ |
HORACE - Human-robot collaborative manipulation by considering geometry and uncertainty
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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. We will then exploit these distance measures in the form of kernel functions that can be used in Gaussian processes to account for variations and uncertainty. By leveraging our previous expertise, we will demonstrate the developed approaches in several human-robot collaboration scenarios involving joint physical collaboration, assembly, manipulation of deformable objects, all
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Funding | Weave, Croatian National Science Foundation (Total budget: 1.099.863,47 EUR, UNIZG-FER: 187.508,47 EUR) |
Duration | 01.12.2024 - 30.11.2028. |
DRUMS - Deep Tech & Robotics for Human-Centered Manufacturing Systems
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In the DRUMS project, a learning platform, didactic guidelines and teaching materials for Vocational and Educational Trainings (VETs) and learning materials for their students will be created. The learning plattform, the didactic guidelines and the teaching and learning materials should provide approaches to further automate the manufacturing sector, make it more efficient and, above all, more sustainable. The teaching and learning materials will be developed on the following main topics:
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Funding | Erasmus+ |
Duration | 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2026 |
Website | https://drumsproject.eu/ |
RAiSE – Robotics, AI, and Computer Science for Engineering
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RAiSE – Robotics, AI, and Computer Science for Engineering connects education, science, and industry partners in Central and South-Eastern Europe to enhance teaching, research, and innovation in robotics, AI, and engineering. The network fosters interdisciplinary collaboration to tackle regional and global challenges, focusing on integrating AI and robotic solutions into real-world applications. Key activities include student and teacher exchanges, joint research, co-supervision of theses, and an annual Summer/Winter School on Robotics and AI, which offers hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies. RAiSE supports bilateral agreements between institutions, ensuring mutual recognition of learning outcomes, facilitating mobility, and preparing students for global careers. The network includes 13 partners from 10 countries from faculties of electrical engineering, computer science, information and communication sciences, robotics and machine intelligence, medical & health technologies, and technical sciences. |
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Funding | CEEPUS |
Duration | Academic year 2025/2026 |
Partners | University of Sarajevo Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia; MCI Management Center Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria; University of Montenegro, Montenegro; University of Novi Sad, Serbia; Poznan University of Technology, Poland; Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania;
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czehia; Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia; Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria; University of Information Science and Technology "St Paul the Apostle", Macedonia. |
DATACROSS - The Centre of Research Excellence for Data Science and Advanced Cooperative Systems
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The Centre of Research Excellence for Data Science and Advanced Cooperative Systems is the first centre of excellence in the field of technical sciences in Croatia. The Centre brings together researches from thirteen renowned organizations, including eleven higher education institutions from Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, Osijek and Dubrovnik, as well as the Ruđer Bošković Institute and the company Ericsson Nikola Tesla. The Centre comprises two research units: the Research Unit for Data Science (DATASCIENCE) and the Research Unit for Cooperative Systems (ACROSS). Find out more about the participating organizations here. The vision of the centre is to establish itself as the leader in research and development of new methods and advanced engineering approaches related to data science and cooperative systems. The mission of the centre is to advance Croatian science and strengthen its inclusion in the European Research Area, in particular by promoting the participation in EU and other international research programmes. The centre fosters cooperation between the academic community and the public sector in the specific research areas that are in the focus of the Centre. |
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Principal Investigator | Ivan Petrović (coordinator of the Research Unit for Cooperative Systems) |
Researchers | Marija Seder, Ivan Marković |
Partners | University of Zagreb Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Rijeka Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Osijek Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Dubrovnik, Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Catholic University of Croatia, Center for Advanced Computing and Modelling |
Website | across-datascience.zci.hr |
DATACROSS - Advanced methods and technologies in Data Science and Cooperative Systems
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DATACROSS is a project of the Centre of Research Excellence for Data Science and Advanced Cooperative Systems dealing with research problems of developing advanced methods and technologies for heterogeneous data analysis and complex cooperative system shaping. |
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Funding | European Regional Development Fund (Total budget: €5.060.000, UNIZG-FER: €5.060.000) |
Principal Investigator | Ivan Petrović (coordinator) |
Researchers | Marija Seder, Ivan Marković |
Website | across-datascience.zci.hr/en/datacross |