SAMHand

SMART MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEMS BASED ON AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

SMART MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEMS BASED ON AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

SAMHand

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 the Interreg Aurora funded project SAMHand – Sustainable Autonomous Material Handling 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.

Contact: Magnus Karlberg, Project Manager, Luleå tekniska universitet – magnus.karlberg@ltu.se

Lead Partner
Luleå tekniska universitet

Lead partner Norway
SINTEF Narvik

Project partners
Oulun ammattikorkeakoulu
University of Oulu
UiT – The Arctic University of Norway

TYPE OF PROJECT
Regular project

SUB-AREA
Aurora

PRIORITY
Smart and sustainable growth

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE
Smart specialization, research and innovation

PROJECT DURATION
2023-01-01 – 2025-12-31

TOTAL PROJECT BUDGET
1 726 000 Euro

EU-FUNDING, INTERREG AURORA
751 400 Euro

NORWEGIAN IR-FUNDING
285 000 Euro

STATUS
Ongoing

Social, ecological and economic sustainable development is an overarching goal in the Interreg Aurora Programme. All projects funded by Interreg Aurora contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The SAMHand project contributes primarly to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Project News

First meeting of the Steering Committees for Interreg Aurora 2021-2027
News

First Interreg Aurora projects approved

The new Interreg Aurora Programme has approved the first projects in the funding period 2021-2027. The two Steering Committees, for sub-area Sápmi and sub-area Aurora