Laboratories of the Department of Technical Studies

The Department of Technical Studies has the following specialist laboratories:

CP Factory (Industry 4.0 Laboratory)

Industry 4.0 Laboratory is a modern workplace for teaching subjects focused on industrial automation, robotics and Industry 4.0 technologies. Among other things, the laboratory is equipped with a CP Factory teaching production line, which allows demonstrating modern principles and technologies for production control, logistics and distribution of production resources. The research activities of the laboratory are mainly focused on distributed control and allocation of production resources, as well as on the development of virtual models and digital twins using the AAS (Asset Administration Shell) principle.

Experimental Measurement Laboratory

This is a laboratory accredited by the Czech Institute for Accreditation according to ČSN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2018 under the number 1753. The laboratory is focused on the realization of basic experimental measurements of mechanical properties of materials and structural parts thanks to the state-of-the-art equipment with universal testing systems Instron 3345, Electropuls E10000 and Instron 5984. The laboratory also has a VHX-6000 Keyence digital microscope for product quality characterization and an LDS V650 vibration bench system for vibration testing. More HERE.

Laboratory of Industrial Automation (LPA)

Laboratory is focused on practical student training and application of modern industrial automation elements. The basis is workplaces equipped with industrial automatic machines (PLC) and operator panels (HMI) from Siemens, on which tasks in the field of technological process control can be implemented. The laboratory also includes collaborative robots from ABB, used for demonstrations and training in programming robotic applications and their interfacing with control systems. For pneumatics and electro-pneumatics, workstations equipped with components from SMC are available, which allow the implementation of various tasks and their integration with the higher-level control via HMI. The laboratory also has functional models of real systems for their control.

Computer Science Laboratory (EIT)

The Computer Science Laboratory is primarily used for teaching subjects such as Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Server and Desktop Administration and Data Security and Protection. There are 21 powerful computers with Windows Server operating system and full hardware support for virtualization. This allows students to run additional virtual operating systems within the host system and test network services or applications. Lab equipment also includes tools for working with UTP cabling, active network elements, Wi-Fi routers and servers.

Electrical Engineering Laboratories

The electrical engineering laboratories of the Department of Technical Studies are used for teaching (especially the Automation and Microprocessor Technology Laboratory - AMT) and for research and implementation activities (Robotics Laboratory - ROB) in electronic fields with a focus on the design of electronic circuits, unique measuring devices and original sensors for measuring non-electrical quantities using the basics of artificial intelligence (AI). The equipment of the laboratories also enables teaching and experimental work in the field of analysis, synthesis and further processing of analogue and digital signals. The AMT teaching laboratory focuses on laboratory classes in the field of design and functional verification of basic electronic circuits, programming of microcontrollers and gate arrays, methods used in measurement technology of electrical and non-electrical quantities, including the basics of error and uncertainty theory. The laboratory also teaches signal theory and signal processing, especially digital signal processing. The ROB laboratory is used for experimental and research activities of academic staff, including the realization and testing of functional samples of designed devices, and for the realization of student theses.

Signal Processing and Multimedia Laboratory

The Department of Technical Studies has a state-of-the-art Signal Processing and Multimedia Laboratory. The laboratory is equipped with studio audio equipment, audio measurement equipment and professional software for signal, audio and video processing. It offers the possibility of recording and computer processing of audio and video signals as well as facilitating acoustic and audiological measurements or signal measurement and analysis.

The laboratory is used, among other things, for the recording of the Polytechnicast podcast.

The technical equipment of the laboratory was acquired with the financial support of the project M00176 Electronic-Biomedical Cooperation.

Laboratory of Manufacturing Processes

The Laboratory of Manufacturing Processes is used to support the teaching of technology-oriented courses within the study programmesof Applied Engineering (Bc. and NMgr.) and Applied Mechanical Engineering, as well as to support the practical phases of bachelor and diploma theses and semester projects. The laboratory is also a prototype workshop to support research and development carried out at the VŠPJ. The comprehensively equipped prototype sample workshop enables the realization of milling, turning, forming, assembly and manual locksmith works with the possibilities of preparing semi-finished products, tool grinding, sheet metal bending, material cutting, basic pressing procedures, measurement and product inspection. More complex shaped parts can be produced using CNC milling procedures.

3D Print Lab

The 3D Printing Lab offers 3D printing with various processing techniques as part of our cooperation and services. This involves the processing of polymer-based materials with the possible addition of (an)organic additives according to the needs of the application. The laboratory has machines processing materials with Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) technology, which is the most common type of additive technology that processes material in the form of a filament. Furthermore, the laboratory is equipped with 3D printers processing liquid resins (reactoplasts) using Stereolithography (SLA) technology and sintering polymer powders using Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) technology, last but not least, 3D printing of composite materials is also possible. In addition to the processing of commercially available filaments, the laboratory also has the possibility of preparing its own filament, which can be further processed and characterized in terms of surface quality and, in combination with the Laboratory of Experimental Measurements, in terms of mechanical properties. More HERE.

Motion Analysis Lab

The Motion Analysis Laboratory is used to perform kinematic and kinetic analysis of the objects under study. This analysis has a very wide range of applications in various fields - in healthcare (orthotics and prosthetics, physiotherapy), in sports (technology and optimization of sports performance), in industry (automotive safety, workplace safety, machine motion control, device design, robot control), in entertainment (film and game industry) and wherever there is a need to know precise information about the motion of any object or subject. The laboratory is equipped with a Qualisys camera system for monitoring kinematics of motion, Kistler force platforms for monitoring kinetics of motion and a Delsys EMG system for monitoring muscle activity. In the laboratory, we analyze, for example, human movements during sports activities - walking, running, karate, volleyball, weight training - or during everyday or professional activities - patient handling in the hospital, ergonomics of working at a computer or machine, or even breastfeeding. The laboratory is also used for technical tasks. The Qualisys system uses 16 high-frequency cameras to track the object being measured, recording the movement of markers placed on the surface of the object being monitored. Two Kistler force platforms record reaction forces. The Delsys system records the electrical activity of muscles as they contract/relax.

SMARTLab

The Smart Materials Laboratory (SMARTLab), at its core, specializes in research on smart materials and their applications. Smart materials include, for example, piezoelectric materials that generate an electrical voltage when mechanically deformed and conversely deform mechanically when an electric field is applied. It also includes materials that exhibit specific behaviour depending on mechanical, thermal, electrical, magnetic or light interactions. The aim of the laboratory is not only the development of these materials and the investigation of their behaviour and properties, but also the solution and development of standard applications.

Licence software

The Department of Technical Studies uses Simio simulation software in its teaching, which was obtained by the College of Polytechnics Jihlava under a grant from Simio LLC. ABAQUS software and COMSOL Multuphysics software are used for teaching the finite element method. ADAMS software is used for teaching mechanics of solid systems.