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Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation

Autonomous Systems

Autonomous systems group has been conducting hands-on research on physical heavy-duty semi-autonomous machines and autonomous mobiles robots, mainly in agriculture and forestry, for more than two decades. The group specializes in situational awareness, machine perception, SLAM, path planning, navigation, model predictive control, and multi-robot systems related issues in dynamic environments.
Autonomous systems Group

For forest harvesters, a perception system that is capable of forest SLAM, i.e. mapping the trees and localizing the machine, has been developed. The group has developed different utilizing schemes for the tree map information. Stereo vision and image sequence analysis, i.e. motion vision, have an important role in these developments.

Robotization of silvicultural machines has been studied. The aim is to recognize the young trees that should be left to grow, and other trees that can be cut down, with the help of machine vision and laser scanners, as well as instrumentation and automatic motion control of the forestry boom. The developments have been tested with real machines.

For agricultural tractor and implement combinations, several prototypes of ISOBUS networked (ISO 11783) control systems for implements have been realized, in which automatic GPS based precision agriculture, semiautomatic integrated control and control system development have been studied and demonstrated. Path planning, automatic navigation and model predictive control path tracking have been developed.

Several small agricultural field robots have been built in student projects, which have participated in European Field Robot Event contest. A full-scale agricultural field robot is used to study online path planning.

The group is led by Professor .

Projects

Latest publications

Victor Bolbot, Sai Kiran, Andrei Sandru, Otto Puolakka, Mikko Suominen, Osiris A. Valdez Banda 2025 Proceedings of the Thirty-fifth (2025) International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference Seoul/Goyang, Korea, June 1-6, 2025

Issouf Ouattara, Jyri Hallikas, Heikki Hyyti, Arto Visala 2025 Journal of Field Robotics

Tabish Badar 2024

Tabish Badar, Issouf Ouattara, Juha Backman, Arto Visala 2024 Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Tabish Badar, Jere Knuutinen, Juha Backman, Arto Visala 2024 IFAC-PapersOnLine

Tabish Badar, Simo Sarkka, Zheng Zhao, Arto Visala 2024 IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Tabish Badar, Juha Backman, Arto Visala 2024 Control Engineering Practice

Victor Bolbot, Andrei Sandru, Ture Saarniniemi, Jan Hendrik Freter, Otto Puolakka, Pentti Kujala, Osiris Valdez Banda 2024 Ocean Engineering

David Leal Martinez 2024

Fabricio Prol, Jaan Praks, Zainab Saleem, Shikha Sharma, Marius Anger, Elena Simona Lohan, Sanna Kaasalainen, Heidi Kuusniemi 2024 IAF Space Education and Outreach Symposium - Held at the 75th International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2024
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