The purpose of the organization of national competitions is to popularize robotics, mechatronics, automation and, in general, techniques, as well as to promote innovation in competitiveness among young people of all ages. In the "RoboT" (Big Labyrinth) category, 28 teams from secondary technical schools took a part, including 6 student teams. In the "ROBOsled" discipline (track tracking), 41 teams participated. Most of the competitors took part in disciplines "RoboCupJunior Rescue-Line (36 teams from primary schools in 23 teams from secondary schools), among them were also the teams from Croatia, Austria and Slovakia. In discipline "RoboCupJunior Performance" have been participated of 14 teams, of which 10 were from elementary school. The most attractive was the "RoboCupJunior Football" discipline, where 4 teams participated. This year, the "RoboCupJunior Rescue CoSpace" competition was also performed (9 teams participated). In total, about 200 teams, consisting of more than 400 children and more than 70 mentors and companions attended. There were several times more children participating in the regional pre-competitions, as many of them had to afford to take part in the final state competitions. For successful participation at the national competition "ROBOsled" at "RoboCupJunior" the atendie have been granted by gold, silver in bronze awards, and the sponsors' prizes were given to the first three teams in each discipline. The best teams from this year's national competition will be able to take part in the "RoboCupJunior 2018" competition, which will take place at the end of June 2018 in Montreal, Canada. In the last eighteen years, thousands of primary school students took part in robotical competitions around Slovenia, with about 1000 secondary school students in about 100 students. The competitors of secondary schools come mainly from schools with programs Mechatronika, Elektrotehnika, computing and more of them from the technical and gramar schools.
B.06 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 20690966Modern systems are becoming ever more complex and, thus, the possibility of failures in their operation is also growing. The complexity makes it practically impossible to make the hardware and software error-free without the special effort invested in the design process. Recently, a design methodology with the objective to avoid unacceptable risk of physical injury or of damage to the health of people, named Functional Safety, has been gaining importance. The paper presents the basics of the design process to be applied for the development of electrical / electronic / programmable electronic devices to be applied in safety critical applications.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 20935190The presented two-axis controller allows simplified and rapid implementation of laboratory experiments in robotics and similar applications. The controller is based on a powerful DSP processor TMS320F28335, which can implement control of servomotors. Design and implementation of control algorithms include usage of floating point calculations. The system is programmable in Matlab/Simulink environment. The electronic controller circuitry design enables a robust operation of the controller even in industrial conditions. Functional extensions of the controller are possible with the internal communication interface. The controller was applied within the European FP7 HYPSTAIR project for an advanced HMI with a haptic interface of a light hybrid electric aircraft.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
COBISS.SI-ID: 11702100In this patents a medium-frequency resistance spot welding system which is used for welding metal sheets is described. This system consists of a frequency converter, a transformer, a diode rectifier, a welding gun and metal sheets. Voltage pulses of different lengths can be generated by the frequency converter. This voltage is than used to supply the welding transformer. Consequently, different methods of generating these voltage pulses can be used. The most common method used in the industry is the pulse-width modulation, which generates voltage pulses with the selected modulation frequency. This frequency is usually constant and equal to the rated frequency of the transformer. However, the pulse width of the generated voltage can be changed even during the welding process based on the needs of the welding process.
F.33 Slovenian patent
COBISS.SI-ID: 21085974Determining the time of execution is very important in the early stages of each project (e.g. making offers, design phase etc.), especially in the stage of planning. This paper presents our approach to estimating the welding time for the purposes of planning the manufacturing processes. The approach is based on the knowledge of welding experts from the Nieros metal d.o.o. company and standards of welding (international and internal). An expert system was developed based on semantic web technologies for calculating the welding time in the product design phase and it is strongly integrated with the main ERP system of the Nieros metal d.o.o. company. Test results are presented at the end of this article.
F.01 Acquisition of new practical knowledge, information and skills
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