Where teamwork and collaboration thrives!
Our research projects and industry collaborations are secured through competitive national and international funding programs. We have a history of successful research collaborations spanning several roles: project coordinator, project beneficiary, and advanced research/academic partner.
| Project Name | Funding Program | Duration | Short Description | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGAGE | European Union’s Horizon Europe (HE): MSCA Doctoral Networks | 2025 to 2029 | Educating Europe’s future engineers for the next generation of mobile working machines: AI driven sustainability, productivity, and safety. | Project coordinator and beneficiary |
| XSCAVE | European Union's Horizon Europe (HE): Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) | 2025 to 2028 | Explainable, safe, contact-aware planning and control for heavy machinery manipulation and navigation. | Project beneficiary |
| Aurora | Business Finland: Co-Innovation | 2025 to 2027 | Automated and connected machines. | Project coordinator and beneficiary |
| SenCAN | Business Finland: Research to Business (R2B) | 2025 to 2026 | Automated sensor calibration and miscalibration detection for mobile machinery. | Project beneficiary for research commercialisation |
| AI-DOC | Finnish Centre for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI): AI-DOC | 2024 to 2027 | The Finnish Doctoral Program on Artificial Intelligence. | Funding for 2 PhD researchers |
| SustAInLivWork | European Union’s Horizon Europe (HE): Teaming | 2023 to 2029 | Center of Excellence on AI for life and work in Lithuania. | Advanaced partner and project beneficiary |
| PROFI 7 | Research Council of Finland: PROFI 7 | 2023 to 2028 | System on Chip (SoC), wireless technologies and robotics for intelligent machines. | Lead beneficiary |
| TRISTAN | European Union's Chips Joint Undertaking (CHIPS-JU) | 2023 to 2026 | Expand, mature and industrialise the European RISC-V ecosystem to compete with existing commercial/proprietary alternatives. | Project beneficiary |
Our research and project collaborations are international, intersectoral, and interdisciplinary. If you are interested in future collaboration, please refer to our Research Opportunities, Research Infrastructure, and Research Roadmap 2025-2030.
Our deep networks and contacts with diverse industry and academic organisations enable us to collaborate across several European countries. Figure 1. illustrates our collaborations which are spread across Finland, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Lithuania, Estonia, and Czechia.
Autonomous mobile machinery are complex system of systems: low product volumes; high product cost; and high product variance. Our collaborations integrate diverse intersectoral perspectives spanning diverse supply‑chain organisations, applications, ecosystems, and academic partners, as illustrated in Figure 2.
Since autonomous mobile machinery are complex, their development and deployment require interdisciplinary efforts. Our collaborations integrate a holistic and systemic approach spanning across the fields of mechanical engineering, robotics, mechatronics, control engineering, computer vision, signal processing, software engineering, simulation, artificial intelligence, safety, and business strategy. Check out our Research Roadmap 2025-2030 and Shared Research Infrastructure for more information.
| Project Name | Funding Program | Duration | Short Description | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MORE-ITN | European Union’s Horizon Europe (HE): MSCA Doctoral Networks Formerly known as (MSCA-ITN-EID) | 2020 to 2024 | First industry-academia partnership to jointly educate researchers on heavy-duty mobile machinery: Artificial Intelligence driven robotisation, energy efficiency and process pptimisation. | Project coordinator and beneficiary |
| DSII | Tampere University: DSII | 2021 to 2024 | Industry co-funded PhD positions: Safety Concepts for Collaborative Autonomous Mobile Machines; and Methodologies and Tools for Autonomous Mobile Machines. | Funding for 2 PhD researchers |
| FEMMa | Business Finland and SIX Mobile Machines Cluster | 2021 to 2024 | Future electrified mobile machines from a component, machine, and worksite perspective. | Project coordinator and beneficiary |
| safeRL | National Science Foundation, USA and Academy of Finland, Finland (NSF-AoF Collaborative Research) | 2022 to 2024 | Safe Reinforcement Learning in non-stationary environments with fast adaptation and disturbance prediction. | Project beneficiary |
| AI-Hub Tampere | European Union's ERDF | 2019 to 2023 | Provide AI related workshops, pilots, and demos to regional companie in the fields of energy efficiency, simulators, and optimal control. | Project beneficiary |
| PEAMS | Business Finland: Co-Innovation | 2021 to 2023 | Platform economy for autonomous mobile machines software development. | Project lead |
| Himmeli Robotics (in Finnish) | Business Finland: Research to Business (R2B) | 2019 to 2021 | Combining 2D/3D sensors and AI algorithms in tested and validated platform that can be easily integrated to any working machine. | Project beneficiary for research commercialisation |
| MIDAS | DIMECC Oy: LIFEX | 2018 to 2020 | Machine learning for industry applications: load weight estimation on excavators, learning from demonstration, and reward learning for RL. | Project beneficiary |