In this new « Spotlight » we present another academic partner involved in the project: UNIZG, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (Croatia).

 

University of Zagreb’s mission is based on scientific and artistic research and aims at sustainable development, artistic creativity and professional work as well as organization and performance of university studies.

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) is celebrating 69 years of independent activity as one of the most important scientific institutions in Croatia. The tradition of electrical engineering education goes back to 1919 and more than 25 000 students graduated from Faculty of Electrical Engineering or FER.

According to the European Commission data, FER is at the top in Croatia in terms of attracting EU projects.

In FITNESS, UNIZG will bring in expertise about Metasurfaces on curved substrates, computational electromagnetics, robotics & signal processing. Involved researchers will contribute to the design of curved MTS for smart skins, the proof that one may provide communications and sensing functionalities with a curved skin, the experimental characterization of curved smart skin for robotics. To that end, UNIZG is fully equipped with robotic motion capture and exteroceptive sensors system; measurement facilities in microwave frequency range & simulation and design software.

 

Zvonimir Sipus is a full professor at FER where he teaches several courses in applied electromagnetics and optical communications. Since 2006, he has been involved in teaching with the European School of Antennas. In the research work, he has dealt with a wide range of problems related to analytical and numerical methods in electromagnetics, with the analysis and design of microwave antennas and antenna arrays, and with fiber-optic communication and sensor systems.

Ivan Petrović is a full professor at FER where he teaches several courses in robotics and control. He is the head of the Laboratory for Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robotics – LAMOR (http://lamor.fer.hr). In the research work, he has addressed various aspects of automatic control, state estimation, and machine learning and their application in control of complex technical systems, where the autonomy of mobile robots and vehicles and human-robot interaction have been in his research focus for the last twenty-five years.