The students’ representative of the
Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) and
“FESTO” organized the unique for the students of the colleges and for the first
time in Lithuania demonstrational “Competitions of
the Robots” for the students of universities and engineers. The events took
place at the Lithuanian Exhibitions Center “Litexpo” on the 25-28 of May and were part of
the exhibitions “Balttechnika 2004” and “Mokslas 2004” (“Science
2004”).
The “Baltic Open
Competitions on Mechatronics” were navigated all week – from 21 till 28 of May.
The mechatronics is a hybrid trend of the technique, which joins the traditional
technique technologies – mechanics, electrotechnics, electronics and computer
science to solve integrated problems of manufacturing and
management.
Competition participants
are the students of the colleges of the Baltic
States and
the youths of other countries. The students of
Lithuania,
Latvia,
Estonia,
Ukraine,
Russia,
Finland,
Poland and
Germany participated in the “Baltic Open
Competitions on Mechatronics”. The participants’ training took place on the
21-23 of May; the competitions passed on the 25-28 of May at the second hall of
the “Litexpo” centre, in which the participants had to perform different
technical tasks as quickly as they could and to find the technical mistakes and
also to suggest the best problem solution.
On the 25-27 of May for the
first time in Lithuania “Competitions of the Robots” for the students of
universities and engineers from different countries took place in the Lithuanian Exhibition Centre “Litexpo”
(Laisvës pr. 5, Vilnius). The engineers and constructors of robots willing to
exhibit their skills could do that at the second hall of the “Litexpo” centre
during the free time between the exhibition’s legs.
But these robot
competitions differed from the popular foreign “wars of the robots”, where they
fight against each other seeking to harm an antagonist. In the Lithuanian
competitions the robots had to drive the eggs from point A to point B. It seemed
an easy task, but to realize it was quite difficult. Primarily because the
remote control of the robots was enacted by a special monitor, i. e. there were
special video cameras on the robots. Unfortunately, there were different
problems with commands for the robots because of the not qualitative view – the
robots strayed from the run, couldn’t collect the eggs or lost them.
It is exulting that all
robots shown in the competitions were made in
Lithuania by our students and technicians.
The organizers of the unusual “Robot race” and the competitions on mechatronics
are the students’ representative of the Faculty of Automation and
Electrotechnics of the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) and “FESTO”. The
KTU students’ representative is the biggest Lithuanian organization of technical
universities, which unifies more than 300 active members. The “Festo” is an
independent company, which studies the technological subsequences and the
tendencies of the market; it is represented in 170 countries and regions of the
whole world.
An attention to science
and e-education
The company group “Penki Kontinentai” didn’t take part in the
exhibitions “Balttechnika 2004“ and “Mokslas 2004” (“Science 2004”), but the
company allots a lot of attention to science and the possibilities to place
modern technologies in it.
Existing for more than five years
Training Center established in 1998 by
“Penki kontinentai” offers courses on more
than thirty subjects; the courses are oriented at specialists, pupils and
students. Training Center proposes courses not only at the
Center’s facilities, but also at your work place, for groups or individuals.
Training courses are very useful both for those who are willing to obtain basic
computer skills and for those who would like to improve their knowledge or even
change a profession. Today you are
welcome to attend the following courses: internet basics, text editing,
programming, computer graphics and design, computer networks, data bases. By the
end of the course all are given special certificates. More information about
Training Center here
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With an exertion of the
company group “Penki kontinentai“ the project of
e-day-care is successfully implemented. The project was presented during the
“Infobalt 2003” exhibition. The head of the company group Idrakas Dadaðovas gave
the children of the day-care “Gandriukas” a modern present – plastic
magnetic cards. These cards were designed for the identification of the children
and for different discounts. They save an individual’s data, like child’s
health’s state, its achievements in studying at the day-care or school. The
cards are coherent to the technology of the mininetworks. Each card consists of
information about the child’s mininetwork address. Mininetworks – small
networks, in which information about a person, his/her hobbies, pictures, etc.
can be kept. Each child in the “Gandriukas” day-care can have such a network, it
can be designed at the web-site of the day-care - http://gandriukas.microsite.lt. A
video camera was installed at the day-care “Gandriukas”, with its help you can
see the day-care group “Drugelis“ (“Butterfly“) online for 24 hours at the
web-site www.gandriukas.lt.
“Penki kontinentai” implements the first unique
project of electronic school in
Lithuania. The new system already exists at
Vilnius’ “Þemyna” gymnasium. This project
must change collaboration between teachers and students, improve expedition,
information search and change such a negative view of school in general.