“BANAT” AUTONOMOUS ROBOT- A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT Sorin BUNGESCU – University of Agricultural Sciences Timisoara Sorin NANU –Politehnica University Timisoara Dumitru TUCU – Politehnica University Timisoara

Objectives of the paper - Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 Objectives of the paper Paper describes a long-term project carried-on by a multidisciplinary team team is formed of three groups of students and professors from three faculties

The project An autonomous robot to compete in an international contest - Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 The project An autonomous robot to compete in an international contest to fulfill agricultural specific tasks

- Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 The context FIELD ROBOT EVENT – student contest for autonomous robots for agricultural purposes 1st edition - 2003 Wageningen, The Netherlands Accompanying agricultural great european exhibitions or other

- Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 Romanian team Initiated by CLAAS Foundation that fully sponsored the first participation of Romania Contacts in University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine from Timisoara The newly built team and the robot were called „Banat” (name of the historical region covering areas in Romania, Serbia and Hungaria)

Romanian team Three groups: - Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 Romanian team Three groups: University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine from Timisoara Faculty of Agricultural Sciences Politehnica University of Timisoara Faculty of Mechanics Faculty of Automation and Computers

The competition 2012 Venlo, The Netherlands Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 - Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 The competition 2012 Venlo, The Netherlands

The competition 2013 Prague, Czech Republic Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 - Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 The competition 2013 Prague, Czech Republic

The competition 2014 Bernburg, Germany Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 - Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 The competition 2014 Bernburg, Germany

The tasks Common tasks for all competitions - Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 The tasks Common tasks for all competitions follow a path through regular rows of plants (flower, corn) follow a path through irregular rows of plants and with obstacles Specific tasks find a mark in the field and go there find different plants in the row, stop and give a signal find coloured golf balls between plants and record position by GPS

The robot Effort of all three groups Agricultural- - Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 The robot Effort of all three groups Agricultural- took care of contest specifications, built a replica field with plants for testing reference for all agricultural technical issues Mechanical Built everything related to the mechanical structure chassis motor transmision wheels Automation Design the hardware structure for control Built the electronic structure Designed the algoritms for control Developed the software

The robot General participation of students and professors for - Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 The robot General participation of students and professors for strategy, design, integration, testing.

- Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 The robot

The results 2013 Venlo, The Netherlands – 5th out of 15 - Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 The results 2013 Venlo, The Netherlands – 5th out of 15 2013 Prague, The Czech Republic – 10th out of 20 2014 Bernburg, Germany – 10th out of 20

Students’ Skills Cross skills – learned the from other group - Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 Students’ Skills Cross skills – learned the from other group Management – time, tasks Development and integration in the laboratory Communication – technical, social Connections - how to interact with co-competitors

Students’ Skills Through contacts with real applications - Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 Students’ Skills Through contacts with real applications with sponsors – opportunity to know the real job market and skills requested by companies with students with other faculties – beteen groups with co-competitors in international contests with farmers – the end users of robot - in exhibitions

- Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 Lessons learned Technical and administrative challenge for students and professors Involving – everybody thought that understood all the problems and knew all the solutions Technical ideas came not only from professionals

Sponsors – supported all the expenses for project - Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 Sponsors – supported all the expenses for project Agricultural Machiney producers John Deere – USA, CLAAS – Germany CLAAS Foundation- Germany, Westfalia Surge – Germany, Fendt – Germany, Maschio Gaspardo – Italy, Case – USA, Massey Ferguson – USA, Manithou – France, Distributors in Romania Agrocomert Holding, IPSO Agricultura, Titan Machinery, Vest Tract, Tehnodisel, DLG InterMarketing

Participation in Romanian exhibitions - Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 Participation in Romanian exhibitions 3 Romanian agricultural exhibition Robot was programmed to make a small show Great interest from farmers to buy for domestic tasks

Media - Printed agricultural magazines - internet, blog, YouTube - Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 Media - Printed agricultural magazines - internet, blog, YouTube - 6 radio interviews - 30 minutes TV interview

Conclusions „Banat” robot was and still is a succesful project that : - Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 Conclusions „Banat” robot was and still is a succesful project that : Included 10 students and three professors from three faculties Was innitiative of sponsors and fully supported by them Because of the international visibility more and more sponsors are interested in this project

- Project Work and Internship: impacts on labour market and society Genoa 25-26 sept 2014 Thank you