Projects

BrAIn (1/2024 – 7/2026) – BRinging Artificial INtelligence Towards SMEs

Funding: InterReg Danube Region

Coordinator: Balázs Barta, Pannon Business Network Association

Partners: Pannon Business Network Association HU, Innovation Technology Cluster – ITC SI, Steinbeis Europa Zentrum DE, ICT Cluster Bulgaria, West Regional Development Agency RO, PROUNION SK, Business Upper Austria, XR Institute Ltd. CZ, ODA, Information Society Development Institute – IDSI.

MUSAE (9/2022 – 8/2025) – A Human-centred Factory for a Future Technological Sustainable Development Driven by Arts

Funding: Horizon Europe, Call: HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01, grant agreement no. 101070421
Coordinator: Prof. Marita Canina, Politecnico di Milano
Partners: Politecnico di Milano, Ab.Acus, Universitat de Barcelona, MADE, PAL Robotics, Gluon, University College Dublin, The University of Manchester.

AIFitnessAssistant (4/2024 – 4/2025) – Artificial intelligence-based fitness assistant for estimating muscle activation from human motion videos
Funding: Funded by Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, Call: Program Proof of Concept (PoC)
Coordinator: Milos Petrovic, Research Assistant

CircuBot (5/2023 – 4/2025) – Modular and versatile collaborative intelligent waste management robotic system for circular economy

Funding: Funded by Science Fund – Republic of Serbia, Call: Green Program of Cooperation between Science and Industry

Coordinator: Dr. Arso Vukicevic, University of Kragujevac
Partners: Faculty of Enegineering Sciences University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Mining and Geology University of Belgrade

ForNextCobot (7/2020 – 6/2022) – Mechanical Impedance Estimation and Planning for Next Generation Collaborative Robots

Funding: Funded by Science Fund – Republic of Serbia, Call: Program for excellent projects of young researchers (PROMIS)
Coordinator: Assc. Prof. Kosta Jovanovic
Partners: Institute Mihajlo Pupin – IMP

DIH-HERO (1/2019 – 12/2022) – Digital Innovation Hubs in Health Care Robotics

Funding: Horizon 2020, Call: H2020-DT-2018-1, Digital Innovation Hubs, grant agreement no. 825003
Coordinator: Prof. Stefano Stramigioli, University of Twente
Partners: University of Twente, German Aerospace Center – DLR, Fraunhofer IPA, RWTH University Hospital Aachen, CEA, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Politecnico Milano, Italian Institute of Technologies – IIT, Tecnalia, EURECAT, Imperial College London, Danish Technological Institute, Fundacja Rozwoju Kardiochirurgii, ETH Zurich.

DIH2 (1/2019 – 12/2022) – A Pan European Network of Robotics DIHs for Agile Production

Funding: Horizon 2020, Call: H2020-DT-2018-1, Digital Innovation Hubs, grant agreement no. 824964
Coordinator: Dr. Ali Muhammad, Finland Institute of Tech. – VTT

MINDtheGEPs (2/2021 – 1/2025) – Modifying Instition by Developing Gender Equality Plans

Funding: Horizon 2020, Call: H2020-SwafS-2020-1
Coordinator: Prof. Cristina Solera, University of Turin

BrainWatch – SHOP4CF experiment (11/2021 – 7/2022) – Smart Human Oriented Platform for Connected Factories

Funding: cascade funding under H2020 project SHOP4CF
Coordinator: Prof. Alois Knoll, Technical University of Munich
Partners: Galeb Electronics (Serbian SME)

AI4Dim&SurfQA – SHOP4CF experiment (9/2022 – 6/2023) – Smart Human Oriented Platform for Connected Factories

Funding: cascade funding under H2020 project SHOP4CF
Coordinator: Prof. Alois Knoll, Technical University of Munich
Partners: University of Kragujevac, AUTOSTOP INTERIORS, BRRM (Serbian SME)

BOWI (11/2021 – 12/2022) – Boosting Widening Digital Innovation Hubs

Funding: cascade funding under H2020 project BOWI, initiative Smart Anything Everywhere
Coordinator: UAB CIVITTA

HUMAN-COMAN (1/2020 – 12/2021) – Human centered collaborative serial manipulator

Funding: Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Tech. Development, Call: Bilateral scientific projects between Serbia and France
Coordinator: Prof. Vincent Bonnet, UPEC & Asst. Prof. Kosta Jovanovic
Partners: University of Paris Est Créteil, Créteil, France (UPEC)

CoH-ROM (1/2018 – 12/2019) – Establishing new tools to facilitate new generation humanoid robot capabilities for collaborative human-robot object manipulation

Funding: Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Tech. Development, Call: Bilateral scientific projects between Serbia and Slovenia
Coordinator: Dr. Tadej Petric, JSI & Asst. Prof. Kosta Jovanovic.
Partners: Department for Automation, Biocybernetics and Robotics, Jozef Stefan Institute (JSI)

ReconCell experiment (9/2018 – 2/2019) – Reconfigurable Assembly of Airport Signalization Lights using Collaborative Robots

Funding: cascade funding under H2020 project ReconCell, initiative I4MS – ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs
Coordinator: Dr. Ales Ude, Jozef Stefan Institute
Partners: IVAMAX (Serbian SME), Jozef Stefan Institute, University of South Denmark, Blue Ocean Robotics

FS4SMIH (9/2016 – 9/2017) – Feasibility Study for Serbian Manufacturing Innovation Hub

Funding: cascade funding under H2020 project ReconCell, initiative I4MS – ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs
Coordinator: Asst. Prof. Kosta Jovanovic
Partners: Institute Mihajlo Pupin – IMP, Servoteh (Serbian SME)

ECCEROBOT (1/2009 – 12/2011) – Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot

Funding: FP7, Challenge 2- Cognitive Systems, Interaction,Robotics – under grant agreement no. 231864.
Coordinator: Prof. Owen Holland, University of Sussex
Local coordinator: Prof. Veljko Potkonjak
Partners: University of Sussex, Technical University of Munich – TUM, University of Zurich, The Robot Studio

Anth. Serv. Robot (1/2011 – 12/2018) – Ambient intelligent service robot of anthropomorphic characteristics

Funding: Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Tech. Development, no. TR35003
Coordinator: Prof. Veljko Potkonjak
Partners: Institute Mihajlo Pupin – IMP, Faculty of Technical Sciences Novi Sad – FTN, Serbian Academy of Science and Arts, ICM (Serbian SME)