NEW BUSINESS FINLAND PROJECTS: CASE FUTURA

BOOM-BOOM-BOOM

GIM Robotics is a proud member of three new Business Finland funded projects.

THREE IN A ROW

In 2022 GIM Robotics has joined in three national Business Finland funded projects: FUTURA, SANTTU and SWARM. These ambitious construction, mining, cargo handling and forestry related mobile machinery projects include each a mixed bag of research topics from the list of common keywords including digital twins, AI, operator assistive systems, autonomy, electrification, and whatnot. All three projects have one common denominator. Instead of just navigating there and back, these machines do some actual work which requires some sort of a manipulator, or as it can be called it in this context, a boom. So regardless of whether you are a John Lee Hooker, The Animals, or even Vengaboys fan, boom-boom-boom is the phrase of the day. As we are extremely happy to be among some Finnish flagship companies (OEMs, subsystem providers, etc.) and our top universities, we want to introduce these three projects to our fans – one project biweekly.

FUTURA - THE OBJECTIVES

We start with the newest of them – FUTURA. Future all-electric rough terrain autonomous mobile manipulators (FUTURA) project aims to exploit electrification benefits and create full-dynamics-based control of mobile manipulators: “The project focuses on developing technologies and methods that are fundamental for unlocking the full commercial potential of future electrified mobile working machines. The main objective is to develop science-based control methods which enable the cooperation of the electric boom and the rough-terrain-suitable electric mobile platform, paving the way for future fully electric rough-terrain mobile manipulators capable of flexible and autonomous task execution.”

Traditional excavator with a hydraulic boom and decent bucket. In the future, things will change in some applications where electrification makes sense and is economically justifiable. (Photo by chaphot/Shutterstock).

FUTURA - THE FACTS

FUTURA is a 3 year / 3 million € project, which started October 1st 2022. It is run by our old friend from Tampere University, Professor Jouni Mattila. FUTURA has the crème-de-la-crème of Finnish mining, cargo handling and construction companies as members: Sandvik, Cargotec, Normet, Novatron, and Rambooms. GIM Robotics is thrilled to be among them to support this important research project.

You can read more about FUTURA project from Sustainable Industry X (SIX) webpage here:

https://www.six.fi/futura

Ports have been one of the earliest areas where large scale autonomous solutions in the generic field of mobile working machines have been implemented. Due to the complexity of the operations needed to get containers on and off the ships, to their dynamic interim storages and finally onboard a truck, train, or whatever is needed to get them to the clients, we must have several types of mobile machines. Most of them have some sort of boom - and the electrification trend is picking up among machine manufacturers.(Photo by MAGNIFIER / Shutterstock).

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