Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST)

05/05/2025

We are looking for a Financial-Administrative Project Manager! Apply now!

We are announcing the following vacancy for a new member of the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies: Financial-Administrative Project Manager For the full job announcements, please click on the above link.    

31/03/2025

🤖Students and teachers from Prva Gimnazija Varaždin visited FER for the second time! Our Ass. Prof. Đula Nađ kicked off the visit with a lecture on maritime robotics and showcased the cutting-edge equipment of LABUST. FER's LARICS team also presented their work and concluded the visit with a captivating demonstration of small UAVs. We hope we’ve ignited a spark in the students, inspiring their interest in STEM🤓

22/01/2025

CoE MARBLE has an exciting new vacancy! Check it out!

We are looking for a versatile and experienced Proposals & Tenders Senior Expert to support business development processes in “CoE MARBLE – Centre of Excellence in Maritime Robotics and Technologies for Sustainable Blue Economy” (

23/10/2023

12/10/2023

As part of the UWIN-LABUST project, the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies in collaboration with the IEEE Croatia Section - Robotics and Automation Chapter, the IEEE OES University of Zagreb Student Branch Chapter and IEEE Life Member Affinity Group - Cr...

28/06/2023

On the occasion of marking the tenth anniversary of the Republic of Croatia's accession to the European Union, on Friday, June 30, 2023, from 09:00 to 15:00, FER's Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies - LABUST will open its doors to all interested students and citizens.

The aim of holding "Open Doors" is to present activities and projects that have contributed to the development of higher education and technologies in the field of underwater systems.

28/06/2023

We are thrilled to announce that on June 26, 2023 our lab member Nadir Kapetanović successfully defended his PhD thesis titled „Complete coverage of large seabed areas using sonar data-based path planning for an autonomous marine vehicle“ with Summa Cum Laude honors! Congratulations to Nadir on reaching this important milestone. We wish him all the best on his post-doctoral research journey and look forward to his future accomplishments!

26/04/2023

We are announcing the following open positions:
1 PhD student
1 laboratory manager
1 ecosystem development manager

Full Job Announcements can be found on https://labust.fer.hr/labust?@=2xsi3 . The deadline for applications for the positions is June 1st, 2023. Interested candidates should contact us at [email protected].

We are announcing the following open positions: 1 PhD student 1 Laboratory manager 1 Ecosystem development manager For the full Job Announcements please click on the above links. The deadline for applications for the positions is June 1st, 2023. Interested candidates should contact us...

01/03/2023

We are thrilled to announce that on February 27, 2023 our lab member Anja Babić successfully defended her PhD thesis titled „A hyper-heuristic approach to achieving long-term autonomy in a heterogeneous swarm of marine robots“ with Summa Cum Laude honors! We congratulate her on this significant milestone and wish her all the best as she continues her post-doctoral research with us. We look forward to seeing what she will achieve in the future. Congratulations, Anja!

16/02/2023

Prijavi se na tečaj za upravljanje podvodnim ronilicama! Pomorski fakultet Rijeka i FER (LABUST) vlastitom opremom provode stručno osposobljavanje za rad s daljinski upravljivim ronilicama inspekcijske klase, gdje se tijekom trodnevnog teoretskog i praktičnog dijela tečaja polaznici upoznaju s vrstama i dijelovima podvodnih ronilica, važnosti planiranja zarona, načinom rukovanja i pilotiranja ronilicom te upotrebom ronilica u različite svrhe.

Tečaj traje od 27. veljače do 1. ožujka 2023., u Centru za morske tehnologije Pomorskog fakulteta u Rijeci – lučica Torpedo, Milutina Barača 19, 51000 Rijeka. Prethodno znanje i iskustvo polaznika s podvodnim ronilicama nije neophodno. Informacije i prijave na tečaj moguće je izvršiti na tel. 051 214 587, na e-mail [email protected] ili osobno u Centru za izobrazbu pomoraca na Pomorskom fakultetu u Rijeci (Studentska 2), ured 205.

14/07/2021

Jutarnji list on Innovamare project and FER's tech solutions for cleaning the Adriatic