Petri Tikka

Experience

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  TP-Tools Oy

  Jan 2012 - Aug 2012

  Bachelor Thesis Worker, Tampere University of Technology

  Thesis was done for a case project of TP-Tools Oy. Subject was: "Concept and design of tire-mold's valve installation and condition monitoring tool". The work was carried out as an experimental study and design work including planning and carrying out measurements and analyzing data accordingly. The outcome of the work was to increase automation level of the company.

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  Patria

  May 2013 - Aug 2013

  Production Planner

  Increasing AMV-vehicles production efficiency by working closely with PDM and ERP systems in various production planning tasks.Host for 20 Croatian technicians, and supporting them to adjust within the production.

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  Microsoft

  May 2014 - Sept 2014

  Mechanical Engineering Solutions Intern

  Supporting Mechanics Design team by developing and maintaining platform component catalogs of mechanical design. Developing concepts for mobile holders with additive manufacturing.

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  VTT

  Mar 2015 - Jan 2020

  Researcher and Master's Thesis worker in Production and Machine Systems -team working with systems engineering, mechanical engineering and robotics. Requirements management for Jules-Horowitz reactor, CAD designing for remote-handling operations in ITER fusion reactor, and working with various subjects on robotics.Subject of the thesis was: "Requirements Traceability in Simulation Driven Mechanical Engineering". The work was part of the subproject within the SIMPRO project context, which highlighted computational methods, modelling and simulation as one of the key factors to success in both research and product development. Keywords: Requirements management, Traceability, Model Based Systems Engineering, Simulation, Mechanical engineering, CAD design, Impact analysis, Surrogate object method. Show less

  • Research Scientist

    Jan 2016 - Jan 2020

  • Research Trainee

    Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
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  CERN

  May 2015 - Aug 2015

  Process engineer and Mechanical designer Intern, Helsinki Insitute of Physics

  Working within the Compact Linear Collider study (http://clic-study.web.cern.ch/). Developed 3dsMax models of key components of the technical architecture of the collider. Produced models were used for upgrading the interactive presentation of CLIC shown to every visitor of the CLIC showroom at CERN. Also worked on CAD design for part of the supporting system of the CLIC module. Explored possibilities of applying mineral cast technique to the module girders, supporting technical systems of the accelerator. Optimizing the mechanical stiffness of the structure, while ensuring manufacturability of the girders. Show less

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  VTT

  Jun 2020 - now

  Sensor-based Intelligent Robotics.Performed second Master's thesis alongside work on subject "Control policy training for a Simulation-to-Real transfer: Simulation-to-real case study". The work concentrated on tools and steps that are required to implement a physical system that is trained using the sim-to-real transfer learning in reinforcement learning context. The chosen use case is a Universal Robots UR10e manipulator that is to locate and reach a stationary target in the physical world.Keywords: Simulation-to-Real, Kinematics, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Manipulator Show less

  • Research Scientist

    Jun 2022 - now

  • Research Scientist

    Jun 2020 - now