Czech node
in the framework of the AI Matters project
The Czech node is composed of 3 industrial testbeds equipped with state-of-the-art technology and unique data sets, each with a strong focus on a variety of AI-driven domains in the field of intelligent robotics and advanced manufacturing.
All testbeds offer a unique technology environment for developing, testing and validating innovative solutions for advanced industrial manufacturing.
Each entity disposes of research and expert teams with an excellent know-how background from multiple collaboration projects with industry partners.
5
A project lasting years
24
Partners
8
countries
7 nodes + 1.60 million euro budget
30M€
EU funding
Node members
CIIRC CTU: coordinator
Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics of Czech Technical University in Prague
CEITEC BUT
Central European Institute of Technology at the Brno University of Technology
VSB-TUO
VSB - Technical University of Ostrava
Test equipment
Node members
Fraunhofer IPA
- Leading the German node
- Part of Fraunhofer organisation
- Fraunhofer is biggest applied research organisation in Germany
- Fraunhofer IPA focuses on manufacturing and automation
Lead contact
Dr. Björn Kahl
bjoern.kahl@ipa.fraunhofer.de
Institute of Electrical Energy Conversion (IEW)
- Part of University of Stuttgart
- Research focus on electrical machines and contactless energy transfer
- Applications in the areas mobility, medical technology and industrial applications
Lead contact
Urs Pecha
urs.pecha@iew.uni-stuttgart.de
Research Campus ARENA2036
- Research campus with over 50 partners from industry and science on one platform
- Focused on research in production and mobility
- Establishing services with robotic infrastructure for AI applications
Lead contact
Frederik Wulle frederik.wulle@arena2036.de
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
- National metrology institute
- Founded 1887
- Today: 3 sites, staff: ≈ 2000
- Agency of Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
- Division Precision Engineering focus: manufacturing metrology
- Virtual instruments (dig. twin), Testing of algorithms for CMM
Lead contact
Dr. Harald Bosse harald.bosse@ptb.de
Focus & Selected Domains of Expertise
- Data Lifecycle
IoT and data analytics in data collection, data warehousing and big data. Edge computing, data privacy and sovereignty. - Production processes
Additive manufacturing, process and machine diagnostics, process optimization. - Digital twin and digital shadow
Matching physical systems and simulations, virtual commissioning, dynamic machine models. Predictive maintenance. - Smart Factory and Distributed Manufacturing:
automated production planning, material flow planning, modular and flexible manufacturing, logistics operations, manufacturing as a service. - Advanced Energy Systems
Optimising production processes by linking available energy sources. Electricity distribution systems with the involvement of various sources of green energy.
- Flexible Manufacturing Systems
Additive and subtractive technologies, robotics, mobile manipulators, UGV, UAV. - Human-machine-robot collaboration
AR/VR technology, precise localization and navigation in industrial environments. Remote inspection, visual telepresence. - Machines & Mechatronic Systems. Diagnostics:
Machines & Mechatronic Systems. Diagnostics: sensors for diagnostics and predictive maintenance, vibrodiagnostics, acoustic holography, acoustic emission. Advanced automation and AI applications.
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Advanced Actuators
Advanced actuators (rotary and linear) for industry, drive trains for electromobility, fail-safe actuators, advanced actuator control, diagnostics, monitoring. -
IoT systems, 5G industrial communications.
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HPC, edge-computing, edge-continuum.
- Advanced Industrial Technologies
Interoperability, virtualization technologies and digital twin, service-oriented cyber-physical systems, virtual commissioning, distributed control systems, real-time working, augmented reality/virtual reality. - Industrial Robotics
Intelligent robotics for industrial applications including precision measurement, bin picking etc. - Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing
Data processing and diagnostics, data analysis, ML and AI applications, optimization issues. Extensive data repositories for process and diagnostic data. - Autonomous Vehicle Systems
Modelling, simulation and testing of autonomous vehicle systems in HIL, PIL and SIL environments. Testing of electronic systems during assembly or integration of components. Functional safety and Automotive Spice department. Unit for testing vehicles with internal combustion engine, electric or hybrid drive.
Selected technology equipment
- Full 5G standalone private campus network (installed in all three testbeds in cooperation with T-Mobile CZ) for data transfer to application/edge server with guaranteed latency and bandwidth. The server’s high computing power can be used for industrial computer vision applications or other neural network deployments. It opens new activities in industrial wireless communications including wireless automation networks.
- Robotic cells and modules for flexible production, pick & place operations, systems for machine vision and other applications
- Flexible production and assembly lines with several technologies and conveyors
- Industrial robot areas with production machines for machining and hybrid processes and process optimization
- Various flexible settings of collaborative robots for human-robot interactions and assembly tasks
- Systems for machine vision
- Systems for data exchange between individual machines and superior systems
- Multi-axis motion systems and robotic arms, automatic loading station
- Automatic warehouses with fleet of mobile robots and vehicles for integrated intralogistics
- Highly professional 3D Printing centres for additive manufacturing from plastics and metals, incl. 3D robotic printing – for prototyping, low-volume manufacturing runs, or customized parts
- Smart Grid Lab incl. the connection to the photovoltaic system
- Metrology laboratories with automated 3D scanning systems for precise measurement
- Subtractive and hybrid manufacturing, laser technologies and welding solutions
- Dynamometers (rotational and linear), actuators and traction drives
- Industrial manipulators, cobots, mobile robots, walking robots
- AR/VR technology, Virtualization technologies
- Precise localisation system
