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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
Tampere University has been working on objection detection and tracking in camera images and videos. This includes state-of-the-art deep learning methods that enable detection and tracking of humans as well as other relevant objects (vehicles, containers, etc.). The task requires Read more…