The research on safety of automation systems conducted in AUTOPORT project was disseminated on January 15, 2021, in a Safety sensor workshop organized by FIMA, Forum for Intelligent Machines. The event consisted of two presentations by VTT scientists, followed by discussion: Introduction of IEC 62998 Standards. Timo Malm, Senior Scientist VTT (link Read more…
Timo Malm from VTT gave a presentation on safety of autonomous mobile machinery in an online event organized by Suomen Automaatioseura (Finnish Society of Automation). The presentation material is available online on the Automaatioseura website (direct link to pdf). The presentation covered the following themes: Autonomous vehicles are becoming more Read more…
RAAS (Rethinking Autonomy and Safety) research alliance held an online seminar on November 24, 2020. Pekka Yli-Paunu from Kalmar gave one of the event’s keynote presentations, titled “Intelligent ports”. The presentation emphasized the importance of research on digital transformation in port operations to improve efficiency and safety – key themes Read more…
Ecosystem workshops have been a key forum for sharing knowledge and insights within the AUTOPORT consortium throughout the project. As some partners are already nearing the completion of their projects, more and more results are shared in each workshop, with the latest one held online in the current situation. Some Read more…
Safety standards are currently being developed in many industries to enable increasing levels of autonomy. For autonomous port machinery, domain-specific standards are not readily available. This makes it important to follow the field of standardisation and to identify relevant key standards to guide development. A recently published article provides an Read more…
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic affects the society, businesses and individuals in many ways, and it imposes practical challenges on collaborative R&D projects as well. However, the current situation also concretely emphasizes the importance of flexible and reliable logistic processes that are central themes in the AUTOPORT project. All AUTOPORT organizations Read more…
AUTOPORT project continuously follows and benchmarks the activities related to increasing use of autonomous systems in various industrial domains. A prominent example of autonomous systems in logistics was recently demonstrated at Stora Enso facility in Uimaharju, Finland, where a self-driving truck was introduced for testing in an industrial setting. Several Read more…
Antti Rantala’s Master’s thesis titled Inter-organizational collaboration in software product development , conducted as a part of the AUTOPORT project at VTT, has been published at University of Vaasa. The thesis is available online: https://osuva.uwasa.fi/handle/10024/10665 The objective of the thesis was to investigate different companies’ interests towards deep collaboration models, 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…
AUTOPORT project features in the 1/2020 issue of Automaatioväylä, the leading Finnish trade magazine related to automation. The article, written by VTT researchers, focuses on dependability challenges of intelligent systems.