Project HEKTOR commenced

The implementation of the project HEKTOR – Heterogeneous autonomous robotic system in viticulture and mariculture began on March 13, 2020. The three-year project funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is coordinated by the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (UNIZG FER) with prof. Zdenko Kovačić as Project Coordinator.

The project partners are the University of Dubrovnik – Institute for Marine and Coastal Research and the Faculty of Agriculture in Zagreb. Two FER laboratories are involved in the implementation of the project – the Laboratory for Robotics and Intelligent Control Systems (LARICS) and the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST).

The main goal of the HEKTOR project is to achieve a systematic solution for the coordination of smart heterogeneous robots / vehicles (marine, land and air) that are able to autonomously cooperate and distribute tasks in an open unstructured space / water area. The hypothesis of the proposed project is that a heterogeneous autonomous robotic system, consisting of robots of different skills and purposes, will be able to independently agree on a whole range of procedures, complementing each other, and achieve a common goal.