The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is preparing the introduction of a digital vaccination certificate. In practice, the vaccination certificate will be implemented as a part of the My Kanta service. Vaccination data must be documented at the vaccination…
This post is based on my master’s thesis, in which the goal was to implement a genetic algorithm for beacon placement design. Genetic algorithms are not a new concept, and neither is locating objects based on distance measurements. But the…
This post is based on my M.Sc. thesis, the goal of which was redesigning the velocity profile generator of an autonomous mobile robot. The velocity profile can be used to plan and optimize a robot’s movement. What is a velocity…
To put it lightly, this year has been exceptional everywhere. We want to wish all of our clients and associates a merry Christmas and happy new year 2021! In May 2020 we donated to Pahimman yli -campaign which helped the…
Rust is a young programming language; not brand-new, but not old or rusty by any means. Rust was first introduced at Mozilla in the 2010s, and it proved its worth at the core of Firefox. The parts written in Rust…
A cyber security specialist lists three ways to avoid a disaster like the Vastaamo hacking incident: “Under no circumstances, should information systems show any patient information to end users without strong authentication”. The hacking of the Psychotherapy Center Vastamo, reported…
RustDDS is a networking middleware implemented in Rust programming language. Atostek’s RustDDS is now freely available for all robot developers. DDS is an essential part of ROS 2 based robot applications. Unfortunately there were no pure Rust DDS implementations available,…
Atostek adopted a more systematic approach to quality in late 2017, when we began documenting and supplementing our quality system with a view to earning the ISO 9001 certificate. However, this was insufficient, so late 2019 we began a new…
Under law, it will be possible to act on behalf of minors from October 1, 2020. In the past, it has only been possible to do so on behalf of children under 10 years of age. "The problem has been…
Companies around the world are spending huge amounts of money on robotics development. Autonomous cars, industrial robots, autonomous lawn mowers and work machines all are some kind of robots. Almost daily there are news about new R & D efforts…
