The 9th edition of the University of Coimbra's (UC) robotics competition, BotOlympics 2024, the largest robotics competition in the central region, was held on 11, 12 and 13 April. This educational and training event aims to introduce the world of robotics to the most curious and had more than 100 participants from primary, secondary and higher education, in a competition that also aims to publicise what is developed at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the UC, and in particular at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Coimbra. The event was organised by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Students' Group of the Coimbra Academic Association, in partnership with the Robotics Club of the University of Coimbra and had the Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR-UC) as a partner, among others.

More information at https://botolympics.pt/

Demonstration with the NAO robot for 300 children aged 3 to 10 years old. The demonstration involved various interaction sessions between 

the children and the NAO robot. The main objective of this demonstration was to introduce the RoboTherapist project and recruit 80 child volunteers to participate in individual experiments with the NAO robot. These experiments will contribute to building a relevant dataset for child-robot interaction.

The data acquisition, analysis, and emotion labeling of the dataset will be conducted with the assistance of professionals in the field of psychology. The tests have already received approval from the ethics committee of the Faculty of Psychology of Coimbra. Parents will be required to sign an "Informed Consent" form, outlining the procedures for data collection, usage, and storage.

2nd Open day and Workshop at ISR-UC, July 20th 2023

The Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR-UC) is promoting the 2nd edition of the Open day and Workshop @ISR-UC to present the ongoing research works within the institution. It is the perfect opportunity to bring together, in a positive and productive environment, all the members of  ISR-UC community to share ideas to create new collaborations and synergies. It will allow the public presentation of the ISR’s excellent research to a broader audience outside its walls. This event will take place at ISR-UC and It will be divided in oral presentations and poster sessions. There will be an extended coffee break for poster presentations and social interaction. At the end of the event, there will be a gathering for a relaxed social interaction with free beverages.

Please register your attendance here. It is free of charge but requires registration!!

More Information at: https://web.isr.uc.pt/

• Workshop: Presentation and dissemination of the results of the ResiMicrogrid Project (Dec 14th, 2023, ISR-UC Amphitheatre).
• This workshop was to disseminate and present the results of the ResiMicrogrid Project. It was organized in two parts. The first consisted of oral sessions for presenting the project and the results achieved. Related projects were also presented. The second part of the workshop consisted of a technical visit to the developed microgrid pilot installation, located in the DEEC/ISR garage. It also took place a demonstration of the automatic operation of the pilot microgrid, in island mode, in a simulated power blackout, with demand-response load control for non-critical loads.

Next Monday (3rd of October) will be held 2 lectures at 11:20 in the Afiteatro of ISR, with the following speakers:

Talk 1 -  The use of smart glasses as a collaboration tool in healthcare - by Kristil Erla Håland, CEO Jodacare AS 

For the last seven years, Kristil has worked with health care professionals to make their workday more meaningful and safe. First, through Jodacare - a platform for collaboration between the patient's family members and professional health care providers. Next; is Jodapro, which helps paramedics give the proper treatment to the patient before leaving their homes or the scene of an accident.

Talk 2 - How to drive and release innovation projects successfully in the Norwegian healthcare sector

Erlend Kleiven-Jørgensen: Erlend has an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Management from Lancaster University UK, and a postgraduate degree in Science and Technology Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Since joining PA Consulting, Erlend has worked mainly with service innovation in the public sector. He has experiences in service innovation, implementation of IT-systems, strategy and organisational change in public transport. However, he is now working with service innovation, organisational development and change management in the healthcare sector.

Robert Högvall: Robert has a background in intensive care nursing from Oslo University Hospital, as well as IT engineering from the University in Oslo. He also has broad experience with the development and implementation of large e-health solutions in companies such as Siemens and Cerner. Since joining PA Consulting, Robert has mainly worked with change management in the public sector. Robert has a long experience in service innovation, organizational development and change management in the healthcare sector - partly from clinical work as head of department and in roles with responsibility for educational management and partly through his work supporting healthcare organisations with service development and implementation of new technology.

Digital Event

September 12 - 13, 2022

Application Deadline: September 5, 2022

GPU AI programming Bootcamp at Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica.

Primarily targeted at the community of Portuguese researchers and students who use GPUs as the main tool for their HPC+AI workloads.

The event will be held online next September 12th and 13th.

Registration is free.

Please see the link below.

https://www.openhackathons.org/s/siteevent/a0C5e000005UMhDEAW/se000136

The Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR-UC) is promoting a Workshop to present the ongoing research works within the institution. It is the first time this event is happening!!!

It is the perfect opportunity to bring together, in a positive and productive environment, all the members of  ISR-UC community to share ideas to create new collaborations and synergies. It will allow the public presentation of the ISR’s excellent research to a broader audience outside its walls.

This event will take place at ISR-UC and It will be divided in oral presentations and poster sessions. There will be an extended coffee break for poster presentations and social interaction. At the end of the event, there will be a gathering for a relaxed social interaction with free beverages.

This event will take place at ISR on the 14th of July from 2 p.m. forward. It will be divided in 10-minute oral presentations and poster sessions. There will be an extended coffee break for poster presentations and social interaction. At the end of the event there will be a gathering for a relaxed social interaction.

Please register your attendance here. It is free of charge but requires registration!!

More Information at: https://web.isr.uc.pt/

Presentation of the results of the AI+Green project: Intelligent Automation in Precision Agriculture

Coimbra School of Agriculture, April 27, 2022 (9:30 - 12:00)

PROGRAMME

9:15 Reception of participants

9:30 The challenges of viticulture

- Sustainability and competitiveness in the wine-growing sector, Sónia Leite (APIBAIRRADA)

- Climate change in bairradina viticulture, César Almeida (DRAP, Estação Vitivinícola)

- The potential of Intelligent Automation in viticulture, António Ferreira (ESAC)

10:10 Al+Green Project (https://sites.google.com/view/agribots/project-aigreen)

- Presentation of the project, Cristiano Premebida (ISR)

- Use of remote multispectral information to support viticulture, Tiago Barros (ISR)

- Potentialities and challenges in the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (e.g. drones), Gil Gonçalves (INESCC)

- The importance of field data for calibrating and validating drone information, Carla Ferreira (ESAC)

10:50 Coffee break

11:00 Demonstration

- Use of drones, Gil Gonçalves (INESCC)

- Processing collected data and supporting decision-making, Ricardo Cabral (SpotLite)

12:00 Closing

Location: ESAC, Auditório H1

40.21097200408184, -8.45301601860487

Sessão de Demonstração do Projeto Apresentação dos resultados e desenvolvimentos tecnológicos Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica – Universidade de Coimbra 

Data: 10 de dezembro de 2020 Local: LEIF, Lousã

Resultados Principais: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FemlhnV22KX1Vggwi5K5x9qqeBosHNNK/view?usp=sharing

Bot Olympics is a robotics competition from the University of Coimbra. It is an educational and training event and aims to introduce the most curious to the world of robotics.Comprising three tests taking place simultaneously for students from Basic Education to University Education, it takes place in a hackathon environment for four days, where participants have to develop ways to achieve the objectives of each test. 

So that nothing is missing, you have access to training and all the necessary material to enjoy the best experience possible. You will also have immense surprises waiting for you and a parallel program full of dynamic activities so that you can enjoy these days in the best way.

The Nucleus of Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering Students and The Robotics Club of the University of Coimbra, associated with ISR - Institute of Systems and Robotics are in  charge of this scientific event, which is a unique competition in Portugal.

See more in: https://botolympics.pt/2020_edition.php#section-agenda

The Institute of Systems and Robotics - Coimbra, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Coimbra and the NEEEC/AAC -  Students of Electrical and Computer Enginnering of the University of Coimbra will jointly organize a participation European Robotics Week event named "Robotics in Our Lives @ DEEC.

This organization includes seminars, visits to the Institute of Systems and Robotics Laboratories and a workshops. From the 18th to the 25th of november 2019 the activities will be focused on the university students and for general public.

For more information check the program at the NEEEC/ERW page.

Bot Olympics is the Coimbra University biggest robotics competition, co-organized both by NEEEC/AAC and Clube de Robótica (CR), with the support Institute of Systems and Robotics, and Coimbra University.
It is an event that brings together students from all engineering areas and high school students as well, to compete in an environment where the learning process, the team spirit and the problems solving skills are crucial to achieve the final goal. Bot Olympics also provide a strong formative component to the participants through intensive workshops in coding, robotics and Arduino tutorials, which are essential to the competition, but overall, to the consolidation of electrical engineering knowledge.
This competition is used, as a second goal, to get people from "outside" to know what really Electrical Engineering and Computers is about.
In the past edition of February 2018, we proudly received 70 registrations, counting with 7 secondary schools from different districts and Coimbra University students from 5 different courses.

Our Mission

-Create an healthy environment, propitious to interaction between participants in order to strengthen up the team spirit of the event.
-Endow the participants with the tools (robotics, coding skills, Arduino knowing) they need to achieve the competition primary goal.
-Provide a rich experience in the process.

RobotCraft (robotcraft.ingeniarius.pt) is organized by Ingeniarius, a company that develops intelligent systems and robotic solutions, in collaboration with the Institute of Systems and Robotics from University of Coimbra (ISR-UC), as an international collective internship with a summer programme in robotics for higher education students. The participants attending this two-month programme have the opportunity to work in robotics within a non-academic setting, focusing on several state-of-the-art approaches and technologies. The programme, which concluded its third edition in the summer of 2018, provides a general overview of the science and art behind robotics, teaching the basis around computer-aided design (CAD), mechatronics, Arduino low-level programming, Robot Operating System (ROS) high-level design, and artificial intelligence. As a collective internship conceived to provide a unique hands-on experience in the full design cycle of a mobile robotic platform, RobotCraft is divided into multiple training modules, or crafts, including one purely theoretical craft (Introduction to Robotics), five technical crafts (Computer-aided design, Mechatronics, Arduino low-level programming, ROS high-level programming and Artificial Intelligence), and one experimental craft (Competition). This training is mainly fostered by the Ingeniarius, which receives important contributions from ISR-UC and other universities to introduce the theoretical component of every craft. This academic contribution intends to balance the technical skills promoted during the other crafts, with keynote presentations from invited speakers brought every week.

The Institute of Systems and Robotics - Coimbra, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Coimbra and the NEEEC/AAC -  Students of Electrical and Computer Enginnering of the University of Coimbra will jointly organize a participation European Robotics Week event named "Robotics in Our Lives @ DEEC.

This organization includes seminars, visits to the Institute of Systems and Robotics Laboratories and a workshops. From the 19th to the 23rd the activities will be focused on the university students and on the 24th (Saturday) for general public.

For more information check the program at the NEEEC/ERW page.