Auto­mat­ic con­trol of heavy elec­tri­cal­ly oper­at­ed port machin­ery (Port Automa­tion)

The trans­port of goods and mate­ri­als and the han­dling vol­umes of ship­ping con­tain­ers through ports are very sig­nif­i­cant and one of the foun­da­tions of Fin­land’s com­pet­i­tive­ness. Cen­tral and North­ern Ostro­both­nia are home to impor­tant ports for goods logis­tics (Oulu, Raa­he,…) where large machines are used to unload and load goods.

This project cre­ates Fin­land’s first open exper­i­men­tal research, devel­op­ment and train­ing envi­ron­ment for con­tain­er han­dling, stor­age, unload­ing and load­ing using auto­mat­i­cal­ly con­trolled work machines. The project includes famil­iar­iza­tion with the tech­nol­o­gy and the sys­tem, intro­duc­tion of the nec­es­sary work machines and sys­tems, automa­tion exper­i­ments in the han­dling of sea con­tain­ers using remote con­trol and autonomous con­trol. The basic test­ing cycles of con­tain­er han­dling automa­tion are car­ried out in Oulu­zone. In addi­tion, pos­si­ble tests are car­ried out in the ports of the region and var­i­ous domes­tic and inter­na­tion­al events are orga­nized.

The project is co-fund­ed by the Euro­pean Union.