Intelligent research and innovations

Intelligent mobile machines

The Generic Intelligent Machine (GIM) project, which is a centre of excellence of the Academy of Finland during the years 2008 - 2013, is concentrating on basic research in the field of intelligent mobile machines. A team of researchers from Aalto University and from IHA forms GIM. The intelligent machine research group integrates energy efficiency to the research of the autonomous machines.

Digital hydraulic

The research group is part of GIM and concentrates on new types of hydraulic systems. The achievements so far include better performance, better fault tolerance and significantly reduced power losses. Innovativeness of the research group has already gained several patents and awards. The newest innovation is the Digital Hydraulic Power Management System, which practically removes hydraulic losses and reduces the fuel consumption of hydraulic machines up to 50 %. Digital hydraulics has great positive impact on the environmental issues and the competiveness of Finnish industry.

Remote handling

The EU decided to grant the Divertor Test Platform 2 (DTP2) centre of the FUSION programme to Tampere, Finland. DTP2 became operational at the end of 2006 and it is hosted by VTT and TUT/IHA. DTP2 is the key research environment for IHA’s remote handling research group in the area of advanced heavy-duty robotic control systems. The purpose of the DTP2 is to demonstrate proof-of-concept level operations with remote handling of ITER maintenance robotic devices, from a dedicated control room.