Centrobot

Das Projekt hat zu Ziel die Region Wien-Bratislava als internationales Kompetenzzentrum in der Zukunftsbranche Robotik zu positionieren. Es umfasst internationale Roboterwettbewerbe in der Region Wien-Bratislava, eine Welt- und eine Europameisterschaft. Weiters wird der niederschwellige Zugang zur Robotik durch den Betrieb eines offenen Forschungs- und Entwicklungslabors in Wien ermöglicht. Die Forschung- und Entwicklungsinfrastruktur wird durch ein virtuelles internetbasiertes Robotik-Labor in Bratislava ergänzt. Zwei wissenschaftliche Konferenzen sowie drei Sommerakademien zur Nachwuchs- und Talenteförderung runden das Programm ab. Ein Austauschprogramm im Bildungsbereich soll grenzüberschreitend nachhaltige Verbindungen knüpfen. Die Entwicklung einer Robotik Education Plattform inklusive didaktischer Konzepte soll dazu einen substanziellen Beitrag leisten. Das Projekt möchte auch dabei unterstützen, vielversprechenden Ideen zur Umsetzung zu verhelfen.

Finanziert wird das Projekt aus den Mitteln der Europäischen Regionalentwicklungsfonds mit Unterstützund durch das Wissenschafts- und das Wirtschaftsministerium.

www.centrobot.eu

RobotChallenge

The RobotChallenge is the biggest competition in Austria for self-made, autonomous, and mobile robots. This yearly, successful event will takes place on a Saturday in spring in Vienna since 2004. The basic idea of the competition is to inspire and motivate the creative forces in young people to become involved with innovative technology, research and science. Same as in the recent years, participants and audience will be able to experience the fascinating ways, in which science can be practically applied.

The event is organized by InnoC.at in cooperation with the Federal Austrian Computing Centre (BRZ) and the Slovak University of Technology. The cooperation between these organisations ensured a high standard and gave the event an international character. The next RobotChallenge will take place on the 5th and 6th of April 2008.

www.robotchallenge.at

Roboat - World's Leading Autonomous Sailboat

The Roboat is an autonomous robotic sailboat, which is able to autonomously navigate towards any given target without human control or intervention. The optimal route is calculated by weighting drift coordinates against weather parameters. The rudder and sails as well as the tacks and jibes are autonomously controlled by incoming data from sensors (GPS, compass, anemometer, etc.), which are analysed using artificial intelligence. The Roboat team won the first international Microtransat event in Toulouse, France in June 2006. Microtransat is world's leading competition in autonomous sailing. In September 2007 the InnC team won the Microtransat again. This year's competition was held on the Irish Sea in Aberystwyth, Wales.

www.roboat.at

MariaTheresia wiki

One of the aims of InnoC.at is to provide knowledge and results of our work to a broad public. Therefore we set up the MariaTheresia Wiki, a knowledge base around artificial intelligence, robotics, hardware-hacking and related topics. Everybody is invited to use and to expand the stored knowledge.

wiki.atrox.at

Simple Sensor Network (SSN)

Goal of the SSN protocol is to provide a uniform and simple "language" to communicate to a large number of different sensor and actuator devices. A few functions (getdata, setdata, ...) can be used to retreive values from sensors respectively to set values of an actuator. Communication is based on the serial interface. This guarantees simple implementation.

wiki.atrox.at/index.php/SSN_Protokoll (protocol)

wiki.atrox.at/index.php/SSN_Module (modules)

HappyLab - Source of Innovation

We decided for the name "HappyLab" to think of Dr. Herbert "Happy" Hörtlehner. Prior to his unexpected death he often invited his pupils and students to carry out creative and innovative projects in the fields of electronics, hard- and software. Now we try to provide a new "home" for interested and motivated people.

www.happylab.at