Zoran KUNICA fsb.hr/~zkunica Božo VRANJEŠ Bojan JERBIĆ

2. Anaheim, California 14th November 2004. DEVELOPMENT OF THE LABORATORY FOR INTELLIGENT PRODUCTION SYSTEMS Zoran KUNICAwww.fsb.hr/~zkunica Božo VRANJEŠ Bojan JERBIĆ CROATIA

3. Europe Croatia Area: 56 000 km2 Population: 4 300 000 Vienna Rome Athens 3

4. Dubrovnik Zadar Trakošćan Brijuni islands Veliki Tabor Kornati islands • Tourism: world cultural heritage & nature 4

5. Croatia – the homeleand of the first TIE (the 17th century) 5

6. Inventors, engineers, scientists Nikola Tesla holding a gas-filled phosphor-coated light bulb which was illuminated without wires by an electromagnetic field from the "Tesla Coil" Faust VrančićHOMO VOLANS,1615 6

7. The city of Dubrovnik burns (photo by Jon Jones) The fall of the town of Vukovar(photo by Ron Haviv) • Industry & manufacturing: transition & war 7

8. elektromechanical products • shipbuilding • pharmaceutical industry • power transformers wheelbarrow • locomotives • parts for car industry • Industry & manufacturing 8

9. CONTENT INTRO & MOTIVATION BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT AIM AND GOALS FUNDING AND SCHEDULING LOCATION AND EQUIPMENT FURTHER WORK & PLANNED ACTIVITIES 9

10. SORS BONA NIHIL ALIUD INTRO & MOTIVATION 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. www.fsb.hr 10

11. 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 formanufacturing 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. 11

12. More specifically related to our work and this paper, conflicting facts: • trend of intensive technological development in the world, and production and market globalization, and current situation in Croatia, whose aspects are: • 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 ownpotentials • slow and bad privatization model • war destructions • harmed system of values, including disrespect of knowledge, motivated staff of Department for Robotics and Automation of the FAMENA, to establish a laboratory – LIPS. 12

13. 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... 13

14. BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT “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. 14

15. 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 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 overseen. 15

16. 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. 16

17. AIM AND GOALS 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 whereinstitutions (and even countries) can achieve their own identity. 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 goalencompasses institution building for more autonomous, partially self-financed university institutions, capable for more active role in social and economic changes. 17

18. 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. 18

19. 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. 19

20. 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. 20

21. FUNDING AND SCHEDULING 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. 21

22. LOCATION AND EQUIPMENT 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. 22

23. LIPS -CAD visualization, as in the project 23

24. LIPS - as realized 24

25. FURTHER WORK & PLANNED ACTIVITIES • 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...) 25