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Industry driven association developing intelligence and automation for heavy mobile work machines

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Current research themes

Platform economy

Started as a ROS workgroup, FIMA opened a new theme to study the potential of the platform economy in the context of autonomous mobile machines, to build new cooperation in…

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Autonomy

The current topics are Sensing and Percetion including ImmerSafe project, study of latest precision positioning technologies and seminars and other studies in the subject. Special attention will be in monitoring…

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Active Projects

PEAMS

Platform economy

Platform Economy for Autonomous Mobile Machines Software Development

Schedule:1.3.2021 - 1.3.2023

PEAMS is a Business Finland funded co-innovation project with research partners from Tampere University and University of Helsinki. Project includes 4 company projects and 6 company pilots. The project is…

Partners:FIMA Forum for Intelligent Machines ry

ESEAM

Platform economy

Empirical Software Engineering for Autonomous Mobile Machines

Schedule:01/2021 - 12/2024

The main goal of ESEAM is to collect evidence on different methods and tools that increase productivity in creating software for autonomous mobile machines. The main source of data will…

Partners:Tampereen Yliopisto

AIS

Autonomy

AI in Safety Systems

Schedule:2019 -2021

Ai in Safety Systems is a forerunner project to study the challenges to combine AI methods and safety systems. It will be carried out in the Doctoral School of Industry…

Partners:Tampere University

EZE

EZE -Easy zonal hydraulics

Schedule:1.5.2019 - 30.4.2021

FIMA is jointly participating in a new research project with several Finnish companies. The backround of the project is last year completed EL-Zone. The target is to study and develope…

Partners:Aalto Yliopisto

ImmerSAFE

Autonomy

Immersive Visual Technologies for Safety-critical Applications

Schedule:2018-2021

FIMA is a industry partner organisation in the Marie Skłodowska Curie European Training Network  ImmerSAFE, coordinated by TUT and to be funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. The main…

Partners:Tampere University of Technology

Tech reports

Vehicle Architetures

Mild Hybrids 48V

Safety and Deep Learning Algorithms

Precision Positioning Technology

Range Extenders in Mobile Work Machines

Wireless Connectivity Technologies for Off-Highway Vehicles

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Upcoming events

FIMA AfterWork: Systems engineeringFIMA AfterWork: AI & Data Governance

Past events

Safety Validation Methods AfterworkPEAMS result seminarFIMA research collaborationFIMA vuosikokouspäiväMore events

FIMAblog

ROS2 Accelerating the Heavy Machine Research in Tampere University

Robotic Operating System (ROS) is a middleware SW layer and toolset for the creation of robotics solutions. In the Autonomous Mobile Machine Research Group from Tampere University, led by Associate…

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How open source ROS2 can be used in developing better software for AGVs?

PEAMS collaborative research project aims at finding a common software platform for developing smarter work machines. This can be achieved using ROS2 as a common platform that enables companies like…

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Open Innovation Platform becomes tangible at Mitsubishi Logisnext Europe’s warehouse

(this article is related to PEAMS co-innovation project) Innovative Ecosystem Finnish automation industry and research form an ecosystem initiated and supported by FIMA. All the partners have their own specific…

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FIMA’s 15th year of action: “Many years have passed by, but those years have not been boring or similar to each other”

FIMA just reached its 15th year as an active and well-known association of work machine actors, and that’s a long way to go. In the honor of that, it’s time…

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