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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Serbian
Robotics Prof. Veljko Potkonjak Tel. 381 11
3370164, 381 11 3248464 E-mail
potkonjak_at_yahoo.com Faculty of Electrical
Engineering, University of Belgrade www.etf.bg.ac.
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• Content
• Faculty of Elect. Eng. just few notes
• Serbian Robotics an overview

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Few Notes

• About the reputation
• The most respected technical school in Serbia
• Once . . . 15th . . .
• Carrying or have carried out a large number of
  National and EU research projects.
• A large number of scientific papers, books,
  monographs, etc.
• Development and implementation projects
• Participation in international associations
• . . . etc.

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• Fields of interest
• Electrical power systems
• Energy converters and electrical drives
• All aspects of telecommunications and IT system
  engineering, radio, audio and video, microwaves.
• All aspects of electronics analog, digital,
  industrial el., signal processing, measurements
  and instrumentation, high-frequency and telecom.
  el.
• Computer eng.
• Software eng.
• Physical electronics and solid-state physics
  (nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, lasers)
• Control systems
• Biomedical Engineering
• Mechatronics with robotics

• Teaching and research staff (employed)
• 100 professors (of all ranks)
• 65 teaching and research assistants
• 17 laboratories

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Serbian Robotics
Overview

• Key institutions
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Belgrade
• Institute M. Pupin , Belgrade
• Faculty of Technical Sci., Novi Sad
• Key people
• Prof. Miomir Vukobratovic, Institute M. Pupin
• Prof. Veljko Potkonjak, Faculty of Elect. Eng.
• Prof. Branislav Borovac, Faculty of Tech. Sci.
• Few affirmative words
• Serbian robotics has a long and successful
  history.

often called Belgrade School of Robotics
brand of Serbian Robotics
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Is this true? To support with some history
achievements of Serbian Robotics ? World first
mathematical model of bipedal gait, including the
ZMP theory for dynamic balance and stability.
Developed in sixties and seventies of the XX
century. This concept is used by all modern
humanoid robots. ? World first active
exoskeleton. Developed and produced in
sixties and seventies. Implemented the ZMP
theory. Assisted paraplegics. ? World first
computer-oriented methods for mathematical
modeling of articulated system dynamics were
developed and implemented for industrial robots.
In seventies and later. Allowed for
simulation. First realization of feedforward
dynamic control. ? World first CAD system for
robots. In seventies and eighties. Based on
complete dynamic models. Included the design of
the mechanical structure and the choice of
drives, transmissions, etc.
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Some more support ? 8 international monograph
books in English (publ. by Springer and Kluwer).
Covered all aspects of Robotics, from
Mechanism Theory to Humanoid Robots From 1981
to 2003. Translations to Japanese and
Chinese. ? About 10 textbooks in English and
Serbian ? 7 chapters (entire Section IV
Robotics) in Mechanical Systems Design Handbook
(CRC Press). Cover all aspects of
Robotics. ? Hundreds of research papers.
Respected international journals. International
conferences. ? A large number of invited
presentations.
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Current interests key topics ? Humanoid
robots theory and application ? Biologically
inspired control and human-like behavior of
robots More details on these topics Humanoid
robots general simulator of a humanoid robot.
Mathematical models of kinematics and
dynamics. Works for any motion task.
Different contacts with the environment.
Human-like motion of humanoid robots. Posture
stability under disturbance. Walking and
manipulating synthesis, control and stability.
Sporting motions (like handball, football,
tennis, karate, ). Robotic assistive devices
for sports and medicine. Simulation.
Research and development. Implementation.
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Advanced sensing and intelligence. Visual
systems. Navigation and obstacle avoidance.
Intelligent manipulation. . . . etc. Service
and home robotics. General platform for
service and home robots an interface between
the robot and the application software.
Application software research and development.
What we need
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Our intentions / our needs ? Reestablish
international cooperation (after ) ? Some
research cooperation already exists . . . e.g. .
. . ? We need financial support for
ambitious projects! ? Domestic funds are not
enough ? Join the FP7 program by ?
Proposing new ideas and finding appropriate
partners. ? Looking for projects where our
knowledge and work can be of valuable help and
joining them.
Problems
Solutions