BiMeo is a rehabilitation system developed to facilitate the rehabilitation of people with impaired central and peripheral nervous system and to help with the rehabilitation of other movement-related body structures and functions. The BiMeo offers and ensures proper exercising by allowing a simultaneous training of both limbs of the same pair, e. g. a healthy and an affected limb, and constantly compares the strength and direction of forces applied by both limbs on the instruments, evaluates these data and provides a further instruction for exercising in the next step to the patient. The BiMeo system is a worldwide novelty. There are no similar devices or instruments currently present on the rehabilitation market. This fact is also confirmed by a report query of international patent application PCT/SI2011/000037 for the invention of the BiMeo rehabilitation system. In 2012 a spin-off company Kinestica was wounded which aims at further development of the business opportunity. Kinestica company acquired all intellectual property rights for the BiMeo system from the University of Ljubljana. Furthermore patent applications were filed in the USA, Japan, China and EU. - First prize for the most innovative project at the 5th International technology transfer conference (5th ITTC). - Second place at competition for Best innovation of the University of Ljubljana - Rector's prize. - Fourth best project (among 120 applied) at the Slovenian forum of innovations. - The only innovation selected from central Slovenian region for the Fides pilot project organized by Slovenian technology agency - TIA
F.06 Development of a new product
Haptic technology exploits the user’s sense of touch to render kinaesthetic and tactile information to the user by applying forces, vibrations, and motions. This enables the user to feel and manipulate objects that are either created in computer-generated virtual environments or that actually exist and are manipulated by the user by means of teleoperation technology. The book provides a comprehensive treatment of the theoretical background related to haptic interaction. Haptics is often related to virtual environments. Thus, the book provides a brief overview of virtual reality technology, which is then followed by a more comprehensive introduction to haptics. In order to fully exploit the user’s sense of touch, the main aspects of human perception related to haptic interaction need to be understood. Human perception and manipulation capabilities also affect design of haptic displays. Collision detection and rendering are two of the most important aspects of haptic interaction. Various approaches to control and stability analysis of haptic interaction are examined. The concept of haptic interaction is finally extended to teleoperation systems, which are further examined from the point of view of tele-micro and nanomanipulation. The book is addressed to students and lecturers of advanced robotic courses where the main focus is on human-robot interaction, haptics, virtual reality and teleoperation. Researchers working in the aforementioned fields will benefit from the general overview of issues related to human-robot interaction.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 9601620Implementation of an advanced closed-loop control of filling diastats with suitable oil has substantially cut production costs for the company ETA Cerkno. The system reduced the number of incorrectly filled diastats, lowered costs, since the temperature sensor's metal casing can be shortened, and enabled the filling to be transferred from a time consuming manual process (filling time: 2 days) to an automatic process (filling time: 100 seconds). The company has saved 150,000 € in 2012 on account of the system implementation.
F.14 Improvements to existing production methods and tools or processes
In the year 2012, the Laboratory of robotics together with students was leading the organization of robotics workshop “DIR2012”. Once again, the Days of industrial robotics formed a traditional yearly meeting of robotics manufacturers Yaskawa, ABB, Fanuc, Kuka, Stäubli (Domel), Epson(DAX), FDS and students of University of Ljubljana and University of Maribor. The workshop comprised the following lectures: Introduction to robotics, Safety in work with the robots, Introduction of robots in Unior, Robotic applications in Hella Saturnus, and as a novelty a Robot Challenge, which was a whole week competition in robot off-line programming. The participants and visitors of the workshop had the opportunity to get insight into following applications: Kinect and industrial robot, Pancakes baking with two robots, Paletisation – end packing of bottles in milk industry, 3D copying – scanning with laser triangulation, processing, robot milling, Puzzle assembly by a super-fast Delta robot and computer vision, Table hockey by two robots, Robotic ball throw into basket, 2D ball guiding with parallel robot, and Nao – humanoid robot in action. A complete written material of workshops was published in special issue of Avtomatika journal, no. 109, 2012.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)