Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture DEVELOPMENT OF THE LABORATORY FOR INTELLIGENT PRODUCTION SYSTEMS Zoran KUNICA Mladen SUČEVIĆ Miljenko HRMAN Josip KASAČ Danko BREZAK The 14th International DAAAM Symposium "INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING & AUTOMATION: FOCUS ON RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT“ (DAAAM ) 22-25th October 2003, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina University of Zagreb Croatia

3 INTRO 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.CONTENT BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT AIM AND GOALS FUNDING AND SCHEDULING LOCATION AND EQUIPMENT

4 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.

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. 5

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. 6

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 where institutions (and even countries) can achieve their own identity. 7

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 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. The mentioned goal encompasses institution building for more autonomous, partially self-financed university institutions, capable for more active role in social and economic changes. 8

So, the LIPS would be the centre 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 education standards; - complementary work. 9

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. 10

FUNDING AND SCHEDULING Total funding: Euro. The LIPS realisation is divided into three phases. The phase 1 ( Euro) 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 phase 2 ( Euro) comprises the purchase of the additional equipment that would increase functionality of the existing equipment (force/torque sensor, the arm of the mobile robot, additional programmable logical controllers and grippers etc.), in the two-year period. The realisation of the phase 3 in the four-year period ( Euro) is aimed at the acquisition of transport system and other equipment. 11

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. 12

The arm – to come in the very near future! LIPS - CAD visualisation, as in the project 13 LIPS - as realised