Fifteen students from the First Gymnasium Varaždin (PGV) visited FER on February 19, 2025, accompanied by the principal of the First Gymnasium Varaždin, Prof. Janja Banić, and four other high school teachers. The main goal was to showcase the vast opportunities for learning, creating, researching, and developing in robotics and other STEM fields.
AIFORS researchers Ivan Bilić, Marta Čolaković-Bencerić and Tin Mišić joined Vlaho-Josip Štironja to present to students the LAMOR's research with emphasis on project AIFORS, and demonstrated the visualization of various sensors as well as the OptiTrack system and the operation of the Jaco robotic arm.
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The visit was co-financed through the Ministry of Science, Education, and Youth project, Innovative STEM Learning for a Digital Future, carried out in collaboration between PGV and FER. Prof. Mario Vašak started the visit with a lecture titled Decision-Making Through Mathematical Optimization, introducing students to high-dimensional computational decision-making approaches used in ongoing Interreg projects HyEfRe and Danube Indeet, which also co-financed the visit, as well as in other research conducted within the Laboratory for Renewable Energy Systems (LARES) at FER.
Afterward, Assoc. Prof. Ana Sović Kržić, along with her collaborators Leon Stjepan Uroić and Ivan Brčić, organized a workshop with LEGO robots, where all participants had the opportunity to assemble and program a LEGO printer in a Python environment.
Following the workshop, the students were introduced to the work of the Laboratory for Mobile Robotics (LAMOR), with a special emphasis on activities within the Horizon Europe project AIFORS. The session covered robot sensing and perception, and students had the chance to see the laboratory's diverse and advanced equipment.
Beside LAMOR's Vlaho-Josip Štironja, AIFORS researchers Ivan Bilić, Marta Čolaković-Bencerić and Tin Mišić presented LAMOR's and AIFORS projects and research, and demonstrated the visualization of various sensors, including LiDARs, radars, and IMUs, as well as the OptiTrack system and the operation of the Jaco robotic arm.
The students also had the opportunity to see other mobile robots and even control the robotic arm themselves.
