The ERAT Program 2026

08:50 a.m. 

This talk explores how model-based inference and deep representations can be composed to enable robust robot autonomy, with a focus on perception and decision making in complex environments. Building on some of the recent research activities and achievements of the Laboratory for Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robotics (LAMOR) in visual odometry, monocular depth estimation, and heterogeneous multi-sensor calibration, we will show how a modular pipeline combining geometry, probabilistic estimation, and transformer-based architecture improves accuracy, robustness, and generalization of visual ego-motion estimation methods. On the decision-making side, we will discuss an approach to high-dimensional motion planning for efficient navigation of robotic manipulators in cluttered scenes, finishing with a take on recent results in active visual attention in autonomous systems, thus closing the loop between perception, estimation, and planning.

Ivan Marković is an Full Professor at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia (UNIZG-FER) where he leads the Robotic perception and sensor fusion group within the Laboratory for Autonomous Systems and Mobile Robotics – LAMOR (http://lamor.fer.hr). He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the UNIZG-FER in 2008 and 2014, respectively. His research is focused on various aspects of estimation theory, sensor fusion, and  machine learning with applications to robot and vehicle autonomy and human-robot interaction. He received the National Science Award by the Republic of Croatia (2023), the Young Scientist Award “Vera Johanides” from the Croatian Academy of Technical Sciences (2018), and the Silver Plaque “Josip Lončar” UNIZG-FER for outstanding doctoral dissertation (2014). He has actively participated as a researcher in about 20 research and development projects at national and EU level. He was a visiting researcher at INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique, Rennes, France, under the supervision of Prof. François Chaumette. He serves as the Editor-In-Chief of the T&F journal Automatika indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE), IFAC Technical Committee on Robotics, and the Croatian Society for Communication, Computing, Electronics, Measurement and Control (KoREMA).

9:30 a.m.