Zoran KUNICAZoran KUNICA www.fsb.hr/~zkunicawww.fsb.hr/~zkunica

Božo VRANJEŠBožo VRANJEŠ

Bojan JERBIĆBojan JERBIĆ

Anaheim, California

14th November 2004.

CROATIACROATIA

DEVELOPMENT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LABORATORY FOR INTELLIGENT LABORATORY FOR INTELLIGENT

PRODUCTION SYSTEMSPRODUCTION SYSTEMS

RomeRome

ViennaVienna

AthensAthens

CroatiaCroatia

Area: 56 000 km2

Population: 4 300 000

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Tourism: wTourism: world orld ccultural ultural hheritage eritage & nature& natureDubrovnik

Trakošćan

Zadar

Veliki Tabor

Kornati islands

Brijuni islands

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Croatia – the homeleand of the first TIE (the 17th century)

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IInventornventorss, engineer, engineerss, scientist, scientistss

Nikola Tesla holding a gas-filled phosphor-coated light bulb which was illuminated without wires by an electromagnetic field from the "Tesla Coil"

Faust Vrančić HOMO VOLANS, 1615

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Industry & manufacturing: transition & warIndustry & manufacturing: transition & war

The city of Dubrovnik burns (photo by Jon Jones) The fall of the town of Vukovar (photo by Ron Haviv)

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Industry & manufacturingIndustry & manufacturingshipbuilding

elektromechanical products

power transformers

locomotives

pharmaceutical industry

wheelbarrow

parts for car industry

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INTRO & MOTIVATION

BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT

AIM AND GOALS

FUNDING AND SCHEDULING

LOCATION AND EQUIPMENT

FURTHER WORK & PLANNED ACTIVITIES

CONTENTCONTENT

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The paper depicts development of the Laboratory for Intelligent Production Systems (LIPS), within Department of Robotics and Automation, of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (FAMENA), University of Zagreb.

INTRO & MOTIVATIONINTRO & MOTIVATION

SORS BONA NIHIL ALIUD

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With the products and production, each society confirms, perpetuates and enriches its own identity and original values.

Today, perhaps more than ever, the producing ability – a creation of new products, technological processes and systems, is the condition for survival on global market, and not for manufacturing companies only, but whole countries and societies.

Therefore, to facilitate the technological development is one of the most important society goals, in which the education system and institutions have the exceptional role.

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trend of intensive technological development in the world, and production and market globalization,

motivated staff of Department for Robotics and Automation of the FAMENA, to establish a laboratory – LIPS.

More specifically related to our work and this paper, conflicting facts:

signs of production regression and technological deterioration low presence of Croatian products on international and even domestic markets addiction to imported goods, without employment of own potentials slow and bad privatization model war destructions harmed system of values, including disrespect of knowledge,

and current situation in Croatia, whose aspects are:

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The initiative comes from consciousness of social role and professional responsibility of higher-education institutions, while it should be emphasized that mentioned negative trends directly reflect in their interior state, social position, and future...

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“Intelligence” is a very popular scientific and engineering paradigm today.

As always, it is a job of technical sciences and supporting institutions to lead in providing emerging technologies and paradigms to the growing needs of the global society and market.

BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECTBACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT

Besides the pure scientific and expert background of this and similar laboratories and projects, it is always equally interesting to consider changes that are reflected into specific organisation and even wider social environment.

Such labs and projects always involve some kind of approvals and disapprovals of the previous system of values, and carry the potential of positive or negative changes.

For example, although the technological developmenttechnological development is definitely one of the most important social priorities, non-separable from questions of democracy, human rights and civil

society, it is too often overseentoo often overseen.

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The initiative for the LIPS realisation arises in the year 2001, concurrently and matched with the renewal of the education programme at the FAMENA.

Today, many higher-education institutions are faced with the same - how to:

remain in the global race keeping the ability for producing globally competitive knowledge and values, and,

avoid (what is especially problem of so-called transition countries), to become passive, “consumer” institutions, able only for limited technology transfer, and fed by state budget.

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The applications that bear some kind of intelligence are world-wide recognised issue today; they present the crossroad of application of new technologies, urging themselves as the important area where institutions (and even countries) can achieve their own identity.

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AIM AND GOALSAIM AND GOALS

The main goal: to establish and facilitate the conditions for stable and progressive scientific-research and educational work in the field of development and application of highly-automated – intelligent – production systems (not exclusively of the mechanical engineering origin).

The mentioned goal encompasses institution building for more autonomous, partially self-financed university institutions, capable for more active role in social and economic changes.

The aim: to produce, by liberating human potentials, creative, mature and excellently educated persons, capable to carry future social development, aware of fruitful combination of local and global values in a every-day life and while competing on the global market.

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So, the LIPS would be the center of competence and stable cooperation in the related field among individuals, universities and companies on national and international level, allowing:

creation of the new knowledge; knowledge, technology and good practice transfer; adopting and upgrading of EU (European Union) education

standards; complementary work.

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The main application fields: design and planning of intelligent automated systems in

manufacturing, assembly and packaging, integration of engineering activities and technological processes, diagnostics, implementation, programming and system

supervision.

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Total funding: 200 000 USD.

The LIPS realisation is divided into three phases.

The phase 1 (65 kUSD) has been finished and it has covered main infrastructural works and the purchase of the basic equipment (AdeptSix300 robot, mobile robot Pioneer2, HexSight vision system).

The current phase 2 (65 kUSD) comprises the purchase of the additional equipment that would increase functionality of the existing equipment (force/torque sensor, the mobile robot with an arm, additional programmable logical controllers and grippers etc.), in the two-year period.

The realisation of the phase 3 in the four-year period (70 kUSD) is aimed at the acquisition of transport system and other equipment.

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FUNDING AND SCHEDULINGFUNDING AND SCHEDULING

The laboratory covers area of approximately 60 m2.

Concerning the equipment, besides the newly acquired equipment, the LIPS inherited Festo didactic automatic assembly cell and robot Mitsubishi.

The preference is given to real industrial equipment and sporadically didactic (due to lower costs).

Modularity and “openness” for upgrading are also important features kept in mind during equipment purchase.

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LOCATION AND EQUIPMENTLOCATION AND EQUIPMENT

LIPSLIPS - - CAD visuali CAD visualizzation, as in ation, as in the the projectproject

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LIPSLIPS - - as reali as realizzeded

presentations in Croatia and abroad (scientific and expert conferences and round-tables; workshops; media; government and non-government institutions)

the making of teaching materials (for upgrading existing curriculum and new ones, and seminars)

establishment of collaborative projects and exchange of students and teachers

purchase and installation of the new equipment (force/torque sensor, transfer system...)

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FURTHER WORK & FURTHER WORK & PLANNED ACTIVITIESPLANNED ACTIVITIES