Blog

The ARPA blog lets you get a new glimpse of the project activities every 2–3 months. Stay tuned for edited posts across all ARPA themes!

Results from ARPA project have been published

Welcome to the final deliverable of the ARPA project, a collaborative effort between Turku University of Applied Sciences and Novia University of Applied Sciences from 2020 to 2023. ARPA acronym......
Visualization and User Interfaces

Fifth work package of the ARPA project has been implemented by the Futuristic Interactive Technologies (FIT) research group at Turku University of Applied Sciences. The focus of this work package has......
Maritime Cybersecurity Threat Contextualization – Preparing for Autonomous Ships

Figure 1. Sequential risk element alerts in a multi-stage attack in ARPA-project’s taxonomy use case.BackgroundThe maritime sector has always been a critical component of the global economy,......
Autonomous test platform for factory environment

BackgroundWhile the ARPA-project mainly focuses on autonomous maritime tasks, the focus has also been in autonomous and industrial systems including real-time data acquisition and control,......
An Extended Reality Test Platform for Ship Bridges

BackgroundExtended reality (XR) is a catch-all term encapsulating the family of mixed reality (MR), augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR) technologies. The public mainly associates XR......
Data Platform enables open access to the data collected in ARPA

A marine vessel needs to form situational awareness of itself and its surrounding environment to be able to operate autonomously. The situational awareness can be created using sensor fusion methods......
Hardworking Students plus State-of-the-art Equipment equals Success

Kongsberg has placed over a million euros worth of equipment at the disposal of Turku University of Applied Sciences [1]. This equipment set is utilized to create a sensor platform, which supports......
Collecting Sensor Fusion Data for Autonomous Systems Research

IntroductionDigitalization and increased levels of autonomy in transport are expected to take leaps forward in the coming years. This development can help in creating sustainable, safer, more......
Ready for ARPA Action

Dear guest, welcome to the ARPA project! The acronym stands for Applied Research Platform for Autonomous Systems. Due to their importance for South-West Finland, we at Turku University of Applied......