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Welcome to the website of the ACT-Croatia. We are the first and currently the only one robotsoccer team in Croatia. We are part of the ACT Team at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia.

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Robodance at University of Zagreb Fair

Sunday, 31 October 2010 17:12 Mišel Brezak

We will participate at 15th University of Zagreb fair with our robot dance application. The University of Zagreb Fair is organized for high school seniors, university students and anyone else who is interested. The Fair aims to inform prospective students about courses of study, the faculties' achievements in fields of science and technical equipment, curricula, and many other interesting details. The event will take part at Student Centre, Savska 25, Zagreb, during November 4-6 2010. More at http://smotra.unizg.hr/.

Misel Brezak defended his PhD thesis

Saturday, 27 March 2010 09:13 administrator

Misel Brezak defended his PhD thesis on the localization, motion planning and control of mobile robots in intelligent spaces. The thesis investigates application of mobile robots in environments provided with ambient intelligence to form the so-called Intelligent Spaces (iSpaces).

Juraj Gospodarić graduated

Friday, 12 March 2010 10:06 Mišel Brezak

Our member Juraj Gospodarić graduated with diploma thesis entitled “Microprocessor control system development for robot soccer mobile robot”. During work on his thesis he developed motor control module and supervisor module for soccer robot. He also designed intermodule communication using I2C and CAN communication protocols. The final circuit board is not yet finished, but we hope to see it soon. We wish Jura good luck in future work.

Robot Dance

Sunday, 11 October 2009 08:35 Mišel Brezak

We are proud to present our new RoboDance edutainment module. Yes, it's true - our soccer robots now can dance as well. The module was developed during academic year 2008/09 by students Vanja Smailović and Mijo Čikeš under supervision of Mišel Brezak. Finally we have prepared some nice video demonstrations; one of them can be seen bellow.

The whole RoboDance package contains Matlab application for creating dance choreography, and C++ module for executing the choreography.

The main purpose of the Matlab application is a design and simulation of choreography for our robot dancers. The problem is actually how to create trajectories for instantaneous motion of multiple robots without collision, which are visually pleasant and synchronized with the music. Trajectories produced by the application consist of straight lines and circular arcs. The Matlab application was developed by Vanja Smailović and Mijo Čikeš.

C++ module serves for execution of the choreography and is embedded into robot soccer application. This module ensures that robots actually track the created trajectories. For this, we use nonlinear trajectory tracking controller for nonholonomic systems. For reproduction of the music a wxMedia class that is part of wxWidgets library was used. C++ RoboDance module was developed by Mišel Brezak.

Until now we have two choreographies that try to reproduce an old dance originating from south Croatia called Linđo. Special thanks to Vanja Smailović for creating both choreographies. The above choreography video was also demonstrated during opening ceremony of European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR’09) that took part in Mlini/Dubrovnik-Croatia in September 2009.

To find out more about robot dance, follow this link: [Robot Dance] (web site in Croatian created by Vanja Smailović).

Zvonko Kutleša graduated

Sunday, 04 October 2009 09:46 Mišel Brezak

Our member Zvonko Kutleša graduated with diploma thesis entitled “System for wireless communication between mobile robots for robot soccer and control computer”. During work on his thesis he developed and tested system and protocol for wireless communication between robots and host computer using nRF24l01 RF chip. This is an important step towards construction of our new soccer robot.

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