AUTOPORT project and its research on STAMP safety approach were featured in MIT’s STAMP Workshop online in June 2021. Eetu Heikkilä from VTT gave a presentation titled “Applying STPA in development of autonomous container handling machinery”. STAMP workshop is the main event on STAMP approach, bringing together a global audience Read more…
Society for Risk Analysis – Europe organized its 29th Annual Conference titled “The Discipline(s) of Risk Science” on June 14-16, 2021. The online conference was hosted by Aalto University in cooperation with the University of Helsinki, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, and Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority STUK. The Read more…
The 24th iteration of Finnish national Automation Days, Automaatiopäivät, included three presentations related to AUTOPORT results. The event was organized as an online gathering on April 13-14, 2021. The AUTOPORT presentations, given by VTT scientists, covered research related to safety of autonomous machinery and system safety engineering procedures: Timo Malm, Read more…
AUTOPORT project was represented in the in the 6th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS 2020). The conference was held as an online event due to the travel restrictions.Two papers from the AUTOPORT project were presented in the conference, with one focusing on safety and dependability Read more…
VTT researchers Risto Tiusanen and Eetu Heikkilä attended the Safety-critical Systems Symposium (SSS’20) seminar in York, UK on February 11-13, 2020. They both gave poster presentations on safety aspects of autonomous mobile machinery and logistics. The event was hosted by the UK’s Safety-critical systems club SCSC, which involves participants e.g. Read more…
World Congress on Resilience, Reliability and Asset Management was held on 28 – 31 July 2019 in Singapore. AUTOPORT project was featured with two presentations: Tiusanen, R., Heikkilä, E., Malm, T., & Ronkainen, A. (2019). System safety engineering approach and concepts for autonomous work-machine applications Kortelainen, H., Rantala, A., & Read more…
One research theme for Tampere University in AUTOPORT is studying magnetometers integrated in hand-held devices, such as smartphones. Measurements from magnetometers can be used to estimate the heading of smartphones with respect to the North Pole, which is essential for finding the orientation of the device and the direction the Read more…