People

About me

 Prof. T. Minav, (PI, D.Sc. (Tech.)) is part of the IHA-Innovative hydraulics and Automation unit at Tampere University/Finland. She has received a Doctor of Science degree (D.Sc.) from Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) in 2011. She is an expert in electro-hydrostatic systems and actuators, cylinder’s sensorless position motion control, simulation, energy balance, and energy recovery systems in non-road mobile machinery. During her academic career, she worked and lead industrial projects funded by Business Finland (former Tekes) and by the Academy of Finland) related to the electrification of off-road machinery and its implements.

Field of expertise

Expertise description

• Design of novel electric and hybrid powertrains for off-road machinery
• Electrification of implements/working hydraulics and actuators e.g Zonal hydraulics
• Energy balance and energy recovery systems in non-road mobile working machines. 
• Component selection and dimensioning
• Failure and condition monitoring, predictive maintenance systems
• Thermal hydraulics simulation

Research topics

Zonal hydraulics, Direct driven hydraulic drives, electrci and hybrid powertrains for off-road machinery and stationary applications

Research unit

IHA - Innovative Hydraulics and Automation

Research fields

Electrical and Mechanical engineering

About me

I am Professor of Machine Automation in of IHA-Innovative Hydraulics and Automation research group. My R&D interests include: 

• Real-world autonomous mobile working machines (mobile manipulators)
• Whole body motion estimation and control of rough terrain mobile manipulators
• Heavy-duty robotics motion and contact force controls 
• Advanced high performance and energy-efficient actuators, and their non-linear controls
• Remote Handling/teleoperated safety-critical systems (e.g. in ITER-project)

Field of expertise

I have proven project-based track-record on multidisciplinary R&D topics dealing with full scale heavy-duty mobile working machines relevant to Finland-based companies and in big science projects: heavy-duty robotics motion/force controls, autonomous mobile working machines, nonlinear control engineering, and systems engineering in safety critical applications (e.g. in ITER-project). I published broadly in those fields during the past years.

Research unit

Intelligent Hydraulics and Automation (IHA)

About me

I am determined to solve challenging robotics problems, build autonomous robots to work for human and with human, and train future robotics engineers to be able to do so. 

Responsibilities

Responsible for Robotics major, and international program on Automation Engineering https://www.tuni.fi/en/study-with-us/automation-engineering
Member of automation program development group.  

Field of expertise

Autonomous machines, robotics, AI, optimal control, imitation learning, motion control, optimal trajectory planning, model predictive control, control-estimation integration, construction robotics. 

I am both with Robotics and Intelligent Machines Lab (https://research.tuni.fi/robotics/) and Innovative Hydraulics and Automation Lab (https://research.tuni.fi/iha/).

Research topics

Currently: making autonomy easier by learning methods, more generic estimation and control solutions, software tools, and understanding safety for autonomous mobile machines, and MIMO Radars

About me

I am Adjunct Professor in fluid power and developer of digital hydraulics. The application areas of my research are working machines and demanding hydraulic servo systems. I have also studied innovative combinations of electric and hydraulic drives in recent years. I do extensive co-operation with companies in order to apply research results in practice.

Responsibilities

My main responsibility is to do basic and applied research in co-operation with domestic and international research units and companies. I also teach digital hydraulics and control of hydraulic actuators.

Field of expertise

My special area of expertise is digital hydraulics and its model-based control. I am leading researcher in this area internationally. I have also extensive experience about modelling, analysis and model-based control of various hydraulic systems.

Research topics

The main research topics are various working machines, such as excavators and forest machinery. We apply our expertise also to other applications.

Research career

I got my MSc degree in 1995 and PhD degree in 1998 from Tampere University of Technology. After that I have been working as postdoctoral researcher and academy research fellow by Academy of Finland, and senior researcher and researgh group leader in Tampere University of Technology. I have been Adjunct Professor in fluid power since 2009.

Research unit

IHA - Intelligent Hydraulics and Automation