Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture

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

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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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FUNDING AND SCHEDULING Total funding 160 000
Euro. The LIPS realisation is divided into three
phases. The phase 1 (50 000 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 (50 000
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 (60 000 Euro) is aimed at
the acquisition of transport system and other
equipment.
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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.
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The arm to come in the very near future!
LIPS - as realised
LIPS - CAD visualisation, as in the project
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