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Dissemination

MORE at Scandinavian International Conference on Fluid Power (SICFP) 2023

The MORE partners and early stage researchers have travelled to Tampere, Finland to participate at the Scandinavian International Conference on Fluid Power (SICFP) 2023. The event organised by our coordinator, Tampere University, will explore the latest advancements and foster collaborations in the field of fluid power.

MORE is happy to be able to participate at this highly engaging and innovative conference and also to use this platform to disseminate results to key experts, engineers and researchers at in the field. If you are at the SICFP 2023, do not miss out on hearing about our project either at the IHA Demo Night (1 June, 18:00–22:00) or at our early stage researchers presentations listed below:

31 May 2023

Tyrone J. Machado (ESR1), Bosch Rexroth AG, Germany, Industry Perspective of Stakeholder Relationships in the Technology Transition and Automation of Heavy-Duty Mobile Machinery in Session B2: Safety, business, and productivity (14:20-16:20)

Amirmasoud Molaei (ESR2), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) / Novatron Oy, Germany/Finland, A Novel Framework for the Estimation of Excavator’s Actual Productivity in the Grading Operation Using Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Session B2: Safety, business, and productivity (14:20-16:20)

1 June 2023

Paolo Forte (ESR3), Örebro University/Novatron Oy, Sweden/Finland, From Blocks to Fine-Grained Material: on the Limitations of Discretizing Continuous Quantities for Task and Motion Planning in Construction-Sites in Session A3: Automation (10:30-12:10)

Daniel Eriksson (ESR6), Tampere University, Finland, Towards Multiple Material Loading for Wheel Loaders Using Transfer Learning in Session A3: Automation (10:30-12:10)

Abdolreza Taheri (ESR8), Tampere University / HIAB, Sweden, Towards Energy Efficient Control for Commercial Heavy-Duty Mobile Cranes: Modeling Hydraulic Pressures Using Machine Learning in Session A4: Control (13:00-14:40)

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Watch Amirmasoud’s presentation at the ISARC 2022 online

Our MORE early stage researcher, Amirmasoud Molaei (ESR2) presented his research at the 39th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2022), which was held in Bogotá, Colombia from 13-15 July 2022.

Over the course of the three-day event, a total of 89 papers from 291 authors/co-authors from 26 countries were presented related to digital construction, automation and robotics and their importance in the construction sector. This included Amirmasoud’s presentation on “An Approach for Estimation of Swing Angle and Digging Depth During Excavation Operation” which is available as a recording for those who missed it. Watch the video recording or read the conference proceedings which have both been made openly accessible online.

IFK 2022 – David presents an efficiency and cost analysis for an electrified telehandler

After an online version in 2020, the 13th International Fluid Power Conference (IFK) took place as an in-person event again this year in Aachen. Around 400 participants from industry and academia came together from June 13.-15. to discuss the latest developments in the hydraulics and pneumatics world. With a strong focus in this conference on heavy-duty mobile applications, David’s presentation on his work dealing with the electrified implements of a telehandler attracted many interested listeners and got a lot of positive resonance afterwards. David is looking forward to presenting further results of his studies on this at the next IEEE Global Fluid Power Society PhD Symposium in October.

Presentation at FPMC 2021, “Towards a Standard Taxonomy for Levels of Automation in Heavy-Duty Mobile Machinery”

Our MORE Early Stage Researcher, Tyrone J. Machado presented a paper titled “Towards a Standard Taxonomy for Levels of Automation in Heavy-Duty Mobile Machinery” at the ASME/Bath Symposium on Fluid Power and Motion Control (FPMC) 2021. 

We noticed a lack of commonly accepted definitions and taxonomies for levels of automation (LOA) in the heavy-duty mobile machinery (HDMM) industry/community. They rely on SAE J3016 from the automotive industry, which is unsuitable for HDMM because HDMM perform working activities or manipulation of external materials, in addition to driving activities. Thus, we propose a new two dimensional LOA matrix concept, with manipulation LOA on one dimension, and driving LOA on another dimension. 

The conference was held virtually from 19 to 21 October 2021 and the recording from Tyrone’s presentation is available to watch below.

Presentation on Autonomous Heavy-Duty Mobile Machinery: A Multidisciplinary Collaborative Challenge by Tyrone J. Machado at IEEE-ICTE 2021

Tyrone held a presentation at the International Conference on Technology and Entrepreneurship IEEE-ICTE2021 in Track 6: Interconnected business models; open innovation in digital age; Digitalization of innovation, R&D and creativity processes held virtually from 24-27 August 2021. The paper titled “Autonomous Heavy-Duty Mobile Machinery: A Multidisciplinary Collaborative Challenge” was a joint effort by all the MORE Early Stage Researchers.

In the presentation, Tyrone introduces autonomous heavy-duty mobile machinery from a more general rather than technical perspective, and highlights the conceptual challenges that arise when transitioning from traditional machinery to autonomous machinery. The paper took a holistic and multidisciplinary view on the topic covering technical, economical and management perspectives.

David (ESR4) participated at the SICFP’21

The Scandinavian International Conference on Fluid Power (SICFP) is one of the major conferences in the fluid power community and was held for the 17th time on 1-2 June 2021. David, MORE’s early stage researcher 4, was one of the speakers, presenting his simulation work on an electro-hydraulic concept for improved energy-efficiency of the implements on heavy-duty mobile machines.  Even though the pandemic forced the participants to meet online instead of in Sweden at Linköping University, the conference offered David a good opportunity to present and discuss his research.  The fact that many other talks dealt with electrification and efficiency improvement as well showed that David is on a right track with his research.  

David (ESR4) presenting his work at IeCAT 2020

The 1st International Electronic Conference on Actuator Technology (IeCAT) was held online from the 23-27 November 2020. MORE’s ESR4, David, participated at the conference as an author, giving a video presentation and showing his paper with the title “Finding the Perfect Match—Different Heavy-Duty Mobile Applications Call for Different Actuators”.

The conference was sponsored by the MDPI open access journal Actuators and covered a wide range of actuation aspects in webinars and online sessions, such as actuator materials, miniaturization, soft or biohybrid designs, but also applications. In the session on Actuators for aircrafts and on- and off-road vehicles/machines, David could present his work on developing an algorithm for the evaluation of potential matches between actuator concepts (such as EHAs or LS actuators) and heavy-duty mobile applications. The paper and presentation video can be found on the conference webpage.