SAMHand
SAMHand is an Interreg Aurora joint project between Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish partners. The objective is to show how a sustainable material handling system based on fossil free autonomous vehicles shall be configured.
Within the arctic region, there are several important value chains utilizing natural resources such as forestry, agriculture, mining, fish farming etc. While being essential for the welfare in the region and beyond, there are still several important sustainability challenges that must be solved including material handling. New advanced technology including sensors, artificial intelligence, perception systems, navigation, data processing etc. enable utility vehicles to become autonomous. This radically changes the prerequisites for the utility vehicle concepts and opens for much more sustainable multimodal material handling operations. Hence, the objective of this project is to show how such a sustainable material handling system based on fossil free autonomous vehicles shall be configured. To proof the concept, demonstration of selected autonomous material handling activities will be demonstrated.
The work is divided into five work packages covering development of multimodal material handling system concept, autonomous material handling vehicles and sustainable utility vehicle drivetrain. In addition, one work package is dedicated to sustainability assessment and another work package to case study demonstrations.
By the end of this project needed sub-system solutions will have reached a maturity level enabling industries to take strategic decisions about continuing the development towards commercialization.



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