Dig­i­tal­ized test envi­ron­ment for robot­ic machines, vehi­cles and drone (Net­worked Robot­ics Test­beds)

The objec­tive of the Net­worked Robot­ics Test­beds project is to equip and devel­op the infra­struc­tures of Oulu­zone, Lin­nan­maa Cam­pus, Pekurinkul­ma in Oulu city cen­ter, and Cal­lio in Pyhäjärvi to an inter­na­tion­al stan­dard. These sites will be devel­oped into dig­i­tal­ized, inter­dis­ci­pli­nary, and net­worked test­ing envi­ron­ments for low-emis­sion mobile machin­ery, drones, and robots. The project also aims to pro­mote the green tran­si­tion and sup­port region­al sus­tain­able devel­op­ment. Close col­lab­o­ra­tion will be estab­lished with mul­ti­ple com­pa­nies that uti­lize these test cen­ters for their own prod­uct devel­op­ment.

Project Activ­i­ties:

Invest­ments:

• Acqui­si­tion of new low-emis­sion auto­mat­ed machin­ery, vehi­cles, and drones.
• Con­struc­tion and equip­ping of remote con­trol cen­ters and test­ing envi­ron­ments.
• Charg­ing infra­struc­ture for elec­tric vehi­cles and data com­mu­ni­ca­tion net­works.

Devel­op­ment Activ­i­ties:

• Orga­ni­za­tion and enhance­ment of test­ing envi­ron­ments to enable cut­ting-edge research.
• Estab­lish­ing inter­na­tion­al col­lab­o­ra­tion net­works and part­ner­ships with tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies.

Edu­ca­tion­al Activ­i­ties:

• Uti­liz­ing test cen­ters as edu­ca­tion­al envi­ron­ments.
• Estab­lish­ing new work­shops and pro­vid­ing train­ing for indus­try stake­hold­ers.

Through this project, an inter­na­tion­al­ly com­pet­i­tive, net­worked test­ing infra­struc­ture for low-emis­sion machin­ery, drones, and robots will be devel­oped in the Oulu region. This test­ing envi­ron­ment will sig­nif­i­cant­ly sup­port the region’s green tran­si­tion, tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ment, and busi­ness growth.

The project is co-fund­ed by the Euro­pean Union.