Living Labs

Smart Factory

Smart Factory is a comprehensive platform built in accordance with the principles of the Industry 4.0 concept. It is a space for the interaction and cooperation of the academic sphere with industrial partners, built at VŠB-TU Ostrava within the project “Platform of new technologies FEI CPIT TL3”.

Industry
Services & Equipment

The lab integrates advanced robotics, digital twin technologies, machine vision, and mobile automation for smart industrial applications. It supports simulation, optimization, and real-world testing of modern production and logistics systems.

Our cooperation includes:

Digital Twin

Includes simulation, virtual commissioning, optimization, and scenario verification for industrial operations and layout changes.

Industrial robotics

The team supports industrial partners from concept design to deployment-ready validation using the lab robotic platforms and production test workflows.

Machine vision

The lab supports both 2D and 3D vision tasks including industrial inspection and bin-picking-oriented guidance workflows.

Mobile robotics

Suitable for transport automation, collaborative logistics, and testing of mobile robot deployment in realistic factory layouts.

VR / AR / 5G

Used for digital twin exploration, operator support, remote assistance, and low-latency connectivity experiments in industrial environments.

Equipment & facilities

Basler and Photoneo vision systems

Includes Photoneo 3D scanner for bin picking and machine vision applications.

Machine Vision Robotics

Digital twin software stack

Used for simulation, virtual commissioning, and optimization before physical deployment.

Digital Twin Industry 4.0

Immersive VR / AR / 5G platform

Supports digital twin exploration, maintenance support, and industrial communication experiments.

Digital Twin Industry 4.0

KUKA and Mitsubishi robotic cells

The lab operates 10 industrial robots used for assembly, disassembly, precise measurement, bin picking, and educational robotic cells.

Industry 4.0 Robotics

MiR autonomous mobile robots

Capable of independent navigation throughout the laboratory for mobile intralogistics scenarios.

Robotics

Projects

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Energy Harvesting

Smart Factory

Enhance Europe – Energy Harvesting Collectors for Urban Road Pavement

A system to collect and convert solar energy embedded in road pavements into internal energy in a liquid medium for building heating and domestic hot water production.