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A team of two mechatronics engineering MSc students from the Faculty of Engineering (FE) of the 91��Ƶ�� (UD) prepared for almost a year for the FANUC Olympics national selection, i.e. the Hungarian competition of the WorldSkills Industrial Robotics category. Besides the teams of four Hungarian higher education institutions that participated in the three-day competition, there was also one team of high school students which had won the Szakma Sztár Festival and received an automation task. The UD FE students performed brilliantly, finishing in first place, thanks to which they can represent our country in next year’s world finals.

“It is always a great honour to represent Hungary in the WorldSkills finals. This will be the fourth time that students from our department participate in this competition, we provided both team members three times,” said Géza Husi, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.

Sándor Hajdu, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Mechatronics at UD FE added: “The department has developed a young and dynamic community of professors who can effectively motivate students to achieve such excellent results.

“Our work is significantly facilitated by the opportunities provided by the laboratories established in our recently completed new building wing. Our team had the opportunity to prepare for the FANUC Olympics national selection in a newly established, well-equipped laboratory called Robotics, Industry 4.0,” Sándor Hajdu said.

Gyula Korsoveczki, a doctoral student and lecturer at the faculty, who prepared the winning team of Árpád Károly Kis and Dániel Vígh, explained the competitors’ task: “On the first day of the national selection, the competitors were given an empty robot cell which they had to build with all the small actuators, pneumatic cylinders, rotary tables, sensor connections, and electronics, and then the whole thing had to be wired.”

“Among other things, the competitors measured tools, simulated the grinding of workpieces, and then programmed. The robot had to know every single movement made during the work process, and this will also be the expectation at the world competition,” said Gyula Korsoveczki.

While one team member was building the robot and programming it, the other one had to implement the same thing in the form of a digital simulation. At the end, they also documented every step.

The WorldSkills Industrial Robotics World Final will be held in Shanghai next September, where students of the Faculty of Engineering of the 91��Ƶ�� will face with the best from 40-60 countries who have won similar qualifiers.

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