Informative News

Between July 30 and August 1, 2024, the Hungarian Machine Learning Days was organized for the second time at the European Youth Centre in Budapest, by the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory (MILAB), coordinated by HUN-REN SZTAKI.

A svájci székhelyű IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) a három nagy nemzetközi szabványosítási szervezet (ISO, IEC és ITU) egyike. Több mint 10 ezer nemzetközi szabvány kötődik hozzá. Az IEC SC45A albizottsághoz a nukleáris létesítmények mérő-, szabályozó- és villamosenergia-rendszerei tartoznak, ezen belül a WGA9-es munkacsoport területe a rendszerek teljesítménye és a külső behatásokkal szembeni robusztussága.

In the video presentation prepared for the IMEKO World Congress, Dr. Zsolt János Viharos, Senior Research Fellow of the Research Laboratory on Engineering & Management Intelligence at HUN-REN SZTAKI, and Hoang Anh Tuan, researcher at the laboratory, present a demonstration of a drawing robot using multiple artificial intelligence methods.

The Rudolf Kálmán Prize, founded by HUN-REN SZTAKI, was awarded to Prof. Dr. Ir. Paul Van den Hof during the symposium "Four decades of data-driven modeling in systems and control – achievements and prospects", held at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), where he gave the valedictory lecture. Prof. Dr. József Bokor, Director of Research at HUN-REN SZTAKI, and Prof.dr. Roland Tóth, Senior Research Fellow at the institute’s Systems and Control Lab, also gave presentations at the symposium.

Researchers of HUN-REN SZTAKI's Engineering and Management Intelligence laboratory participated in an intensive workshop in Vienna, where researchers from Fraunhofer Austria presented a recent result: they measured the variable current consumption of a manufacturing cell using PLC data.

In the two broadcasts presented in November, the head and deputy head of the Institute's Research Laboratory on Engineering & Management Intelligence, József Váncza and Gábor Erdős, were interviewed, as well as two guest speakers, Paul Shore and Peter De Wolf.

On 11 December 2023, József Váncza, Head of the Research Laboratory on Engineering & Management Intelligence at HUN-REN SZTAKI, gave an invited online presentation at the "AI for Good" lecture series sponsored by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), in a session on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in manufacturing. The event was followed by a worldwide audience and opened by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

The researchers of HUN-REN SZTAKI attended the launch meeting of the BATTwin project in Milan from 17 to 19 January. The host was the university Politecnico di Milano. The project is supported by CINEA.

With a result of 100%, Judit Mesterné Monostori, member of the Research Laboratory on Engineering and Management Intelligence (EMI) at SZTAKI, defended her PhD dissertation on December 8, 2023.

The German-Hungarian EUREKA project titled EARAS (Energy-aware robotic assembly systems) held its kick-off meeting in Budapest.

József Váncza, Head of HUN-REN SZTAKI's Engineering and Management Intelligence Research Laboratory, gave an invited plenary presentation at the 20th International Manufacturing Conference in China, IMCC 2023.

HUN-REN SZTAKI Department of Distributed Systems (DSD) actively took part in digital art projects in the 1990s, when DSD itself just started. In the era of emerging web technologies, several artists who wished to present their work in the virtual space contacted DSD. Bringing their ideas an exciting cooperation was established to see how it was possible to technically implement artistic visions, where DSD provided software development and the technical background. Nightwatch, a net art journal with independently connected net art works, dates from this most prolific period.

Researchers of HUN-REN SZTAKI’s Computational Optical Sensing and Processing Laboratory, namely Fehér Flóra, Róka Zita, Ákos Zarándy, and Péter Földesy, had presented a neonatal behavioral monitoring system jointly with the Hungarian leader incubator manufacturer, Medicor Elektronika Kft. in MEDICA, Düsseldorf.

At the central event of the European Robotics Week (ERW), video messages were played by institutes from the participating countries. In the videos, the coordinators from each country explained why they think ERW is important and what their country's highlights are.

Elisabeth Angyalka Ilie-Zudor, Head of the Intelligent Information Management group, and Director’a Consultant for EU projects at HUN-REN SZTAKI, will give a presentation titled "Lump sum budget planning at the proposal writing stage and implementation experiences".

In the framework of their career orientation day, fourth grade students of the Lágymányosi Bárdos Lajos Bilingual Primary School visited HUN-REN SZTAKI.

On 29 September 2023, the Institute participated in the event with ten programmes, which occupied several floors of two buildings. More than 300 visitors took part in the HUN-REN STUKI's demonstrations, which ranged from flying drones to an occasional hardware history exhibition, learning about industrial robots and trying out ageing clocks.

József Váncza, Head of the Research Laboratory of Engineering and Management Intelligence at HUN-REN SZTAKI, gave full-house presentation on the industrial application of digital twin technology at a gala conference on the twenty-five-year Hungarian success story of additive manufacturing (or 3D printing).

SZTAKI's Engineering and Management Intelligence Research Laboratory (EMI) and Hitachi Research and Development Group have a decades-long collaboration – a recent landmark in this relationship saw EMI staff visit two Hitachi facilities.

On 4 and 5 October 2023, the Building PREPAREDness with Collaborative Knowledge Platform, Gamification and Serious Game in Virtual Reality project held its project launch event. The event was attended by project participants from 15 partner institutions from 11 countries.