People | IHA – Innovative Hydraulics and Automation

Management of research group

Tatiana Minav

Assistant Professor (tenure track) Hybrid Drives
Leader of Zonal Hydraulics
Automation Technology and Mechanical Engineering
Tampere University
+358505940496
tatiana.minav@tuni.fi

Can be agreed via email
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6370-3473

Professors

Reza Ghabcheloo

Professor
Heavy Machine Automation
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Tampere University
+358408490346
reza.ghabcheloo@tuni.fi

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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 Factory Automation and Robotics.
Member of engineering degree program planning group; 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

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Matti Linjama

Senior Research Fellow
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Tampere University
+358408490525
matti.linjama@tuni.fi

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4861-5624

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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.

Top achievements

My research group has generated numerous innovations, which have resulted six patents. The most important applications of the research have been paper machines, trains, forest machines, excavators, mining equipment and remote maintenance system of the ITER fusion reactor. We have achived 25-98 % reduction in energy with significant improvement of performance in these applications. My research group has published about 150 research articles and my h-index is 13.

Mission statement

Selected publications

Jouni Mattila

Professor
Machine Automation
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Tampere University
+358408490244
jouni.mattila@tuni.fi

Contact me by email.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1799-4323

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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.