Scandinavian International Conference on Fluid Power set for May

Image courtesy of Tampere Hall.

The 16th Scandinavian International Conference onFluid Power – SICFP19, returns to Tampere Hall, May 22-24in Tampere, Finland. The conference is organized and hosted bythe Laboratory of Automation and Hydraulic Engineering (AUT) atTampere University of Technology. It is co-hosted by is the GlobalFluid Power Society. The organization and SICFP location alternatesevery two years between Tampere University of Technology andLinköping University in Sweden. The last event at Linköping featuredmore than 40 technical paper presentations under the theme, “FluidPower in the Digital Age.”

This year’s conference will focus on various areas of fluid power automation. “As in previous conferences, the purpose of the conference is to provide delegates with a forum for sharing experiences with their colleagues and attend high-quality presentations that discuss the latest scientific developments in fluid power automation,” said Kalevi Huhtala, Professor Head of Laboratory and Chairman of SICFP19.

The AUT is spearheaded by the Faculty of Engineering Sciences. Fluid power automation is one of its main research areas. “We develop fluid power and automation technologies to minimize environmental impacts through automation and intelligent solutions. Our main research areas include sustainable drive systems and actuators, autonomous heavy machinery, and the robotic control of working machines,” Huhtala said. “In fluid power research we are following three principles: interdisciplinary research, the bridging of theory and practice, and cooperation with industry.”

Research papers are accepted from around the globe. Topics to be included in the conference include the following:

Automation in mobile machines

• Autonomous machines and vehicles

• Field robotics, teleoperation and remote handling manipulation

• Operator assistance systems

Fluid power

• Digital hydraulics

• Displacement controlled systems

• High-pressure systems

• Pneumatic solutions

• Innovative components and solutions

Reliability and condition monitoring of fluid power and drives

• Aging modeling

• Fail-safe systems

• Life-cycle estimation

Sustainable systems and drives

• Hybrid drives

• Energy storage systems

• Energy recuperation

• Renewable energy

• Environmentally friendly fluids

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