Intelligent Sensor Systems

AnnuAl RepoRt 2010Intelligent Sensor Systems

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IntellIgent SenSor SyStemS

The vision of Intelligent Sensor Systems, ISS, is to be a vital, highly requested and well renowned research establishment, providing competence and applicable research results of high value for society.

Excellence in

Artificial intelligence•

Biomedical engineering•

Robotics•

Wireless communication•

Application areas include

Health care•

Industry•

Our research is mainly motivated by needs from indus-try and surrounding society, and focuses towards mobile, intelligent sensor systems for increased safety, produc-tivity and effectiveness.

Intelligent Sensor Systems, ISS, is one of two Embedded systems research directions at the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering at Mälardalen University. ISS conducts research within artificial intelligence, biomedi-cal engineering, robotics and wireless communication. The research conducted is mainly motivated by needs from industry and surrounding society, and focuses towards mobile, intelligent sensor systems for increased safety, productivity and effectiveness, with special focus on two application areas: industry and health care. A comprehensive collaboration is conducted with companies, municipalities and county councils.

ISS consists of 34 persons directly involved in research, of which 17 have a PhD degree (4 professors, one of these adjunct) and 17 PhD students (of which 8 are industrial PhD students).

Examples of projects and expertise areas:Time critical and safe wireless automation communication - Tesla Professor Mats Björkman

Robot vision – Stereo vision in industrial applications Professor Lars Asplund

Pain-out – Artificial intelligence for decision support in pain relief Professor Peter Funk

Sensor fusion and analysis of complex data including time series Ning Xiong

Biomedical engineering focused towards distributed health care, personalized healthcare and image based diagnostics and therapy - NovaMedTech Associate professor Maria Lindén

Microwave imaging – imaging of human tissue by microwaves Magnus Otterskog

Underwater robotics Mikael Ekström

Health robotics Giacomo Spampinato

LACTA – a new method to identify the lactate threshold level Mia Folke

Intelligent human robot interaction Baran Cürüklü

Maria Lindén, Associate Professor and Director of Intelligent Sensor SystemsSchool of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University.Email: [email protected]: +46-21 10 15 48 www.iss.mdh.se

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Computational Perception Laboratory

Activities range from defining and testing hypotheses on mechanisms behind perception to design of artifacts based on these hypotheses, such as robots.

Members: Baran Çürüklü, Batu Akan, Johan Hägg.

Intelligent Systems group

Focusing on methods and techniques for intelligent systems and artificial intelligence enabling adaptation, learning, experience reuse, and experience sharing.

Members: Peter Funk, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Ning Xiong, Ella Olsson, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Shahina Begum, Bo von Schéele.

Biomedical Engineering group

The research within the Medical Engineering group focuses on reliable non-invasive physiological data acquisition and processing, and reliable wireless sensor data distribution. The vision is to improve life quality for everyone that needs health.

Members: Mia Folke, Tommy Henriksson (Gunnarsson), Maria Lindén, Christer Gerdtman, Magnus Otterskog, Nikola Petrovic, Marcus Bergblomma, Martin Ekström, Jimmie Hagblad, Javier Garcia Castano.

Robotics group

Focusing on real-time 3D vision, and human-robot interaction. Including methods and systems for robotics perception.

Members: Fredrik Ekstrand, Lars Asplund, Jörgen Lidholm, Mikael Ekström, Carl Ahlberg, Giacomo Spampinato.

Wireless Communication group

Focusing on research in wireless sensor networks; communication energy optimization, safe and secure wireless industrial automation, reliable wireless com-munication in harsh environments and content distri-bution network optimization.

Members: Svante Ekelin, Johan Åkerberg, Henrik Abrahamsson, Ewa Hansen, Mats Björkman, Jonas Neander, Andreas Johnsson, Mikael Ekström, Bob Melander, Elisabeth Uhlemann, Shahid Raza, Javier Ubillos, Mudassar Aslam, Svetlana Girs, Kan Yu, Mikael Ekström

research groups

Leader: Senior lecturer Baran Çürüklü,[email protected], +46 21 103171

Leader: Associate professor Maria Lindén, [email protected], +46 21 101548

Leader: Professor Lars Asplund, [email protected], +46 21 107036

Leader: Professor Mats Björkman, [email protected], +46 21 107037

Leader: Professor Peter Funk, [email protected], +46 21 103153


Algorithms & Protocols Enhancing Mobility Support in Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Bluetooth and ZigbeeLeader: Mikael Ekström

Members: Mikael Ekström

Former: Ylva Bäcklund, Javier Garcia Castaño

Research group: Wireless communication and Bio medical Engineering

Start: 2004

End: 2010

Partners: Motion Control AB, Ortivus AB, SCHWARZER GMBH (DE), ABMedica (ES), Medicus (PL), KU Leuven (BE), TU Hamburg (DE)

Funding: EU FP6, KKS

The goal of the research was to implement sensor networks covering aspects such as handover, multi-hop routing, positioning services, latency optimization, reduce of power consumption. These topics have been tested with different short-range radio technologies like Zigbee, WLAN IEEE 802.11 b and Bluetooth. The results of the re-search are applicable to both medical and industrial fields.

Alternative input and control devices for disabled

Leader: Maria Lindén

Members: Maria Lindén, Christer Gerdtman

Research group: Biomedical Engineering

Start: 2005-02-01

End: 2010-10

Partners: Elektronik Mekanik AB

Funding: KK-stiftelsen

This project has the aim to develop an alternative com-puter mouse for disabled persons. The mouse is a flexible input device with a multi-click function and selectable attachment to the body. The mouse uses a micro-electro-mechanical system gyroscope (MEMS-gyro) as a motion sensor, which is both small and sensitive. An universal serial bus (USB) interface with the human interface devices (HID) profile is used to make the installation easy, ”plug and play”, and also make it possible to use on any modern computer independent on the operating sys-tem (Windows, Linux, Mac OS etc.). The structure of the design is module based to achieve a flexible functionality. The placement of the motion sensor is selectable with different attachments. The mouse has individual adapted click-functions with selectable click devices and it is also possible to make individual settings of the mouse param-eters. The functionality can be extended by further per-sonal settings, programming the mouse to individual opti-mal performance. There is now a well working computer mouse for disabled, which has been field-tested by users with different movement disabilities. In the development

research projects at ISS

process, total 23 users have been interviewed and 3 per-sons have participated in the long-term test (6 months). The study shows that a computer mouse based on MEMS-gyroscopes was a good, flexible solution, providing a high performance technical aid with a very high sensitivity to a modest cost. The project also includes development of movement sensors and test equipment for the evaluation of movement sensors.

BARTAP - Network Measurement Applications

Leader: Mats Björkman

Members: Mats Björkman, Andreas Johnsson

Research group: Wireless communication

Start: 2008-01-01

End: 2010-12-31

Partners: MDH, Ericsson

Funding: VINNOVA

Project BARTAP aims at applying the BART network capac-ity measurement method to two types of applications, streaming media and network tomography.

Development of Electroencephalography (EEG) Signal Analysis Techniques for Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Systems

Leader at MDH: Baran Cürüklü

Members: Baran Çürüklü

External: Ali Özgur Argunsah (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia), Mujdat Cetin (Sabanci University),

Research group: Competition Perception Lab

Start: 080101

End: 101031

Partners: Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Funding: The Scientific and technological research council of Turkey (TUBITAK)

Electroencephalography (EEG) based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems are a new development in the field of applied neurophysiology. These systems are being developed in order to enable people who cannot use their motor functions, such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Tetraplegic patients to control some computer based devices. Currently the most important application areas of BCI systems are: to facilitate the communica-tion of ALS and paralyzed patients with their environ-ments; and to enable people with spinal cord injuries to physically manipulate their surroundings by controlling neuroprostheses. This new approach has been made pos-sible thanks to progress in EEG analysis and in informa-tion technology, which has led to a better understanding of psychophysical aspects of the EEG signals. BCI systems


enable information flow the brain directly to the outside world. For widespread use of brain signals for such objec-tives, effective signal analysis and patterns recognition techniques are needed.

BCI systems can be realized both in an invasive fashion through microelectrodes directly implanted in the brain and in a non-invasive fashion through electrodes connect-ed to the head surface. In this project, we consider non- invasive measurement scenarios. Systems realized through signals measured from outside the head are easier to use by patients in practice. However, in the process of signal propagation from inside the brain to the outside of the head, significant signal losses as well as superposition of various signals occur; furthermore noise creeps into the data. Consequently, automatic signal analysis becomes yet more challenging.

Our project involves a fundamental piece of research with the underlying motivation of the development of brain-computer and brain-machine systems that will be actively used by 8.5 million handicapped people in this country. To the best of our knowledge, BCI signal analysis research activity in this country is very limited. The scientific knowl-edge that will be produced by this project (including the methods we will develop, the experimental set up, and the data sets we will collect) has the potential of inspiring and enabling new research projects on this topic. Increas-ing interest in BCI in many countries; existence of open and interesting signal analysis problems in this context, and the potential of widespread BCI use in the near future make this project topic attractive and timely.

Wolpaw et al. made the following remark about the future of BCI systems in a 2002 article: “BCI systems is a topic on which progress will be made through joint work of different disciplines including neurobiology, psychol-ogy, engineering, mathematics, computer science, and clinical rehabilitation. The team we have put together for this project has an interdisciplinary structure in accordance with this remark.

GAUSS - Guaranteed automation communication under severe interferenceLeader: Mats Björkman

Members: Mats Björkman, Maria Lindén, Svetlana Girs, Kan Yu, Marcus Bergblomma, Martin Ekström, Mikael Ekström, Johan Åkerberg, Mikael Gidlund


Start: 2009-01-01

End: 2012-12-31

Partners: VG Power and DELTA

Funding: KKS

The project investigates how safety in wireless commu-nication can be guaranteed in spite of electromagnetic interference.

InMaint - Intelligent Monitoring and Maintenance in Production IndustryLeader: Peter Funk

Members: Peter Funk, Ning Xiong

External: Marcus Bengtsson, Mats Jackson

Research group: Intelligent systems

Start: 2008-08-01

End: 2012-05-31

Partners: Luleå University of Technology •Mälardalen University •Sandvik Mining and Construction AB •Boliden Mineral AB •Parker Hannifin AB •Wipro Infrastructure Engineering AB •Damill AB •Underhållsbyrå •Underhållsföretagen AB •ProjektHydraulik Sverige AB •Hägglund Drives AB •ÅF Ingemansson AB •LKAB, Kiruna •Volvo Aero AB, •Volvo Body Components AB •

Funding: SSF, PROVIKING

The goal is to increase the scientific and industrial ap-plicability of knowledge concerning maintenance, with the aim to increase productivity, reduce production costs and to generate valuable input for improved engineering design of products and production. The objective of the project is to

Develop an approach that can help integrate mainte-•nance needs at the engineering design stage such as Design for (or out) maintenance, RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Supportability) integra-tion to optimize the total life cycle costs (LCC) for the products.

Develop theoretical models to understand and forecast •the cost productivity for all investments made towards maintenance cost of manual and automatic machines such as LHD machines. (Load Haul Dump machines).

To develop flexible decision making models, methods •and techniques for implementation of sensor and expe-rience based condition monitoring in manufacturing.

Develop an approach for condition based maintenance •agents and diagnostics for manufacturing systems so as to make the manufacturing process disturbance free to achieve higher product quality and productivity and a cycle of continuous improvement.


LACTA - a new method to identify the lactate threshold

Leader: Mia Folke

Members: Mia Folke Research group: Biomedical Engineering

Start: 2009-01-01

End: 2011-12-31

The lactate threshold is a good guideline for the endur-ance performance and for the control of training. Repeat-ed measurements for individual athletes are of interest, as the threshold is related to types of muscle fibres involved, blood levels of glucose and fatty acids, and the altitude for the exercise. The lactate threshold is generally estab-lished by using blood tests. There are also non-invasive techniques to establish the ventilatory threshold. Still there is an interest in finding more cost effective and useful non-invasive methods to estimate the threshold. In previous pilot studies it has been shown that the lactate threshold is possible to estimate using an electro acoustic sensor system, LACTA, analysing the respiratory air. The system measures the molecular weight of the gas inside the sensor. The aim of the project is to further evaluate the system and to evaluate more applications for the sen-sor system.

MALTA

Leader: Björn Åstrand (Halmstad University)

Members: Lars Asplund, Giacomo Spampinato

Research group: Robotics

Start: 2007-02-05

End: 2011-02-01

Partners: Örebro University Halmstad Danaher Motion Stora ENSO Linde

Funding: Strukturfonderna and Robotdalen

MALTA -Multiple Autonomous forklifts for Loading and Transportation Applications Objective: The project goal is to create one autonomous forklift truck for a fully autono-mous forklift system for paper reel handling

Measurement system for prevention of pressure sores


Members: Maria Lindén, Jimmie Hagblad, Mia Folke

External: Anna-Christina Ek, Margareta Lindgren (Medicine and Care Nursing Science, Faculty of Health Science, Linköpings University), Per Ask, (Institutionen för medicinsk teknik, Linköpings Universitet)

Research group: Medicinsk teknik (Biomedical engineering)

Start: 2008

End: 2011

Partners: Linköping University

Funding: Sparbanksstiftelsen nya

Prevention of pressure ulcers through simultaneous mea-surement of pressure, temperature and blood flow. Pres-sure ulcers arise because of ischaemia in the skin, which is mostly created because of high external pressure.

Ischaemia leads to destruction of the cells because of low blood flow, resulting in low oxygen and nutrition supply to the cells, and insufficient transport of waste products away from the cells. Ischaemia is developed when high pressure, shear and high temperature exists, because of their influence on the blood flow through the pelvic region. Shear means that different layers are displaced in relation to each other, this leads to the destruction of vessels and therefore a decrease of the necessary blood flow. Secondary factors for developing of pressure ulcers are exposure time, moisture, lack of nourishment and bad hygiene. Today the hospitals and their buying department have a large and hazardous work when it comes to choose which type of mattresses that will be bought. Every deliver claims that their mattress has the best pressure reliev-ing principle and accumulate the least heat. There are not any standardized measurement methods for evaluat-ing mattresses or compare them. In this project we will measure pressure, temperature and moisture between the patient and mattress and also the blood flow in the tissue. By doing this we should be able to comment on which mattress might be the best one for decreasing the risk of developing pressure ulcers. We also hope to decrease the medical care’s cost for treatment of pressure ulcers and most important, minimize the pain and suffering for the patient. Shear and friction contribute to that the skin and bones are displaced from each other, this leads to damage in the tissue in between, like the blood vessels.

Microwaves in biomedicine

Leader: Magnus Otterskog

Members: Magnus Otterskog, Tommy Henriksson (Gunnarsson), Nikola Petrovic.


Start: 2002

End: 2011

Partners: Västerås finmekaniska AB, Medfield Diagnostics AB

Funding: KK-stiftelsen, EU

Microwaves are non-ionizing and hence less interfer-ing with biological tissues than x-rays. For this reason microwave imaging in biomedicine is a potential method for mass-screening (mammography). At the same time, microwave sensing is a modality with higher dynamic signal response compared to x-rays, which is a further reason to investigate microwave imaging as a modality for biomedical applications. This project investigates how microwave imaging can be applied for this reason, focus-ing on measurement techniques and inverse algorithm development.


NovaMedTech


Members: Maria Lindén, Marcus Bergblomma, Mats Björkman, Mikael Ekström, Martin Ekström, Peter Funk, Mia Folke, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Shahina Begum, Bo von Schéele


Start: 2008-07-01

End: 2011-06-30

Partners: Linköping University, Landstinget i Örebro, Landstinget i Västmanland, Västerås stad, Landstinget i Sörmland, Katrineholms kommun, Uppsala Universitet m.fl

Funding: Strukturfonderna

The intention of NovaMedTech is to create necessary conditions for the region of eastern central Sweden to take the lead on the industrial development within new medical technologies. The initiative also aims to meet the future needs of healthcare products and services. To succeed, NovaMedTech will utilize the very good basic conditions that exist in the region in terms of business, research (in universities and colleges), advanced health care (from home care, home health care / community care to specialized care in university hospitals) and activities of established knowledge centers. The initiative is further strengthened by the various counties’ complementary strengths. To ensure the development of new products the resource focus of NovaMedTech is divided into two different product areas: medical technology for distrib-uted care and personal health and medical technologies for image-based diagnosis and therapy.

NovaMedTech further includes an arena for innovation and entrepreneurship, where we intend to use existing structures such as networks, support for innovation, incu-bator businesses, support of new business, seed financ-ing, economic analysis, clinical evaluation, customized entrepreneurial training, etc.. NovaMedTech also intends to support and develop a network of actors in health care, research and companies where innovation can be cap-tured, tested clinically, commercialized and implemented in the medical business.

The goal of NovaMedTech during three-year period:

To build a network of healthcare, industry and research 1. to identify new medical product ideas and to build information resources for NovaMedTech’s activities.

To build product development and research activities 2. closely in the fields of medical technology for distribut-ed care and personal health and medical technologies for image-based diagnosis and therapy.

To identify, develop and clinically test and commercial-3. ize new medical device ideas in medical technology for distributed care and personal health and medical technologies for image-based diagnostic and therapeu-tic applications with commercial potential.

The growth in medical technology is increasing in the 4. region of east central Sweden. Established companies should be strengthened and new business formation.

Pain Out decision support for pain relief

Leader: Peter Funk

Members: Peter Funk, Ning Xiong, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed

Research group: Intelligent Systems

Start: 2008-08-01

End: 2012-12-31 University of Jena•Universities of Exeter & Plymouth, Pen insula Medical •School;

University Exeter (Prof. Taylor) •nstitute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epide-•miology (IMISE), University of Leipzig; ULEI (Dr. Engel) Germany

Mälardalen University (Prof. Funk) Sweden •TAKWA GmbH (SME); TAKWA GmbH (Mr. Buchholz) •Germany

European Center of Pharmaceutical Medicine (ECPM), •University Basel; ECPM Basel (Dr. Schwenkglenks) Switzerland

Örebro University Hospital; UH Orebro(Prof. Rawal) •Sweden

Univesitat Autonoma de Barcelona Hospital del Mar, •IMAS; IMAS-IMIM (Prof. Puig) Spain

University of Münster; University Münster (Prof. •Pogatzki) Germany

Charit, Humboldt University, Berlin; Charit Berlin (Prof. •Volk) Germany

Hospital Cluj-Napoca; Cluj-Napoca Hospit (Dr. Fodor) •Romania 12 Barts and The London NHS Trust, London; BLT London (Dr. Ullrich)

Kantonsspital Lucerne; KS Lucerne (Prof. Konrad) •Switzerland

Hôpital Ambroise Paris, Paris; HAP Paris (Prof. Fletcher) •France

Hospital S. Maria degli Angeli, Pordenone; MdA •Pordenone (Prof. Leykin) Italy

University of Tel-Aviv Medical Center; University •Tel-Aviv (Dr. Brill).

Funding: EU HEALTH-2007-3.1-4: Improving clinical decision making

Main objective of the proposed project is to develop and to validate a system for measurement and feedback of outcome quality in the field of postoperative pain. The system will provide the medical community with a unique, user-friendly device to improve treatment of patients in postoperative pain. This will be achieved by using a web-based information system, featuring three functions:

Feedback and benchmarking system which provides •participating sites with continuously updating data and analyses regarding of quality of care they provide com-pared to other institutions and allows identification of best clinical practice.

Clinical Decision Support System for Post-Operative •Pain, which responds to queries made by physicians for advice regarding treatment of individual patients.


A Knowledge Library will provide clinicians with easily •accessible summaries of evidence-based recommenda-tions tailored to specific clinical conditions Mälardalen University is responsible for the decision support system assisting clinical.

PICO - Philosophy of Information and Computing

Leader: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovi

Members: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Björn Lisper, Jan Gustafsson and external; Lars-Göran Johansson

Start: November 2002

Philosophy of Information and Computing combines scientific, philosophical and ethic perspectives on information and computation. The field is developing internationally within CAP (Computing And Philosophy) project. PICO provides an introduction to a fundamental area of research that is rapidly growing, as a consequence of the development of ICT and its increasing impact on all areas of research and everyday life, on a global scale. Our contributions to the field up to now: organising E-CAP 2005, European Computing and Philosophy Conference, followed by the proceedings published in tripleC journal, http://triplec.uti.at/articles.php.the book, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic: Investigations into Information Semantics and Ethics of Computing, PhD Thesis, Mälardalen University Press, September 2006, and the book Dodig-Crnkovic G. and Stuart S., eds. Computation, Information, Cognition The Nexus and The Liminal; Cambridge Scholars Publish-ing, Cambridge in 2007.

RAP - Robotics, Automation and Process Control

Leader at MDH: Mats Björkman

Members: Mats Björkman, Johan Åkerberg


Start: 2008-07-01

End: 20011-12-31

Partners: ABB, Örebro University, and others

Funding: KKS RAP is an industrial PhD school, led by Örebro university. MDHs project within RAP deals with safety and security in wireless automation networks.

Robot Colleague - A Project in Collaborative Robotics

Leader: Baran Cürüklü

Members: Batu Akan, Afshin Ameri, Baran Çürüklü, Johan Hägg

Research group: Competition Perception Lab

Start: 100101

End: 121231

Funding: Robotdalen, VINNOVA, EU Regional Development Fund

This project intends to create environments centered on one or several collaborative industrial robots. By adapting this approach we also point the direction of where indus-

trial robotics and automation might be in 10 years from now. Environments created in this initiative will be tested and demonstrated throughout the project, thus we intend to create a synergy through the interaction between the research and the feedback from the presumptive users.

Saga

Leader: Lars Asplund

Members: Lars Asplund, Giacomo Spampinato, Mikael Ekström, Fredrik Ekstrand, Jörgen Lidholm, Carl Ahlberg Research group: Robotics

Start: 2010-01-10

Partners: Volvo CE

TESLA – Time-critical & Safe WireLess AutomationLeader: Mats Björkman

Members: Mats Björman, Maria Lindén, Marcus Bergblomma, Mikael Ekström, Martin Ekström, Johan Åkerberg

Research group: Wireless Communication

Start: 2010-01-01 End: 2012-12-31

Partners: ABB Corporate Research, Motion Control AB, VG Power AB, DELTA AB

Funding: VINNOVA The project aims at providing guarantees for safety and security in electromagnetically distributed environments.

Two Camera System

Leader: Lars Asplund

Members: Lars Asplund Giacomo Spampinato, Jörgen Lidholm, Fredrik Ekstrand, Carl Ahlberg

Former: Karl Ingström


Start: 2008

End: 2011

Partners: Sensor Control AB, Hectronic AB, MEEQ AB

Funding: In robotics it is essential to have adequate sensors, and one of the most important sensors for a robot is the vision sensor. When it comes to vision sensors, speed and size is of great importance. Vision applications using stan-dard techniques are widely used in the industry today, although these systems are bulky and slow. The latest development of reconfigurable hardware together with new sensor chips enable a new type of high performance vision systems to be built. The research question that needs to be solved in order for this new type of vision systems to become useful for robotic applications (industrial robots or autonomous service robots) is how to use vision algo-rithms in reconfigurable hardware.

The current approach taken in this work is to find algo-rithms that work on a continuous data flow, using sliding windows, and thus eliminating the need for external memory for storing a complete image.


Projects starting in 2011

Giraff+ Combing social interaction and long term monitoring for promoting independent living


Members: Maria Lindén


Start: 2011

End: 2014

Partners: Giraff AB, Örebro University

Funding: EU FP7

The project is coordinated by Örebro University and is worth 117 840 EUR to MDH.

IMod - Intelligent Concentration Monitoring and Warning System for Professional Drivers Leader: Shahina Begum

Members: Shahina Begum

Research group: Intelligent Systems

Start: 2011

End: 2015

Funding: KKS

The consequences of tiredness, drowsiness, stress and lack of concentration cause by a variety of different factors such as illness, sleep depletion, drugs and alcohol is a serious problem in traffic and when operating industrial equipment. This is especially important for professional drivers since both expensive equipment and lives may be at stake, e.g. in mining, construction and personal trans-portation, reduced concentration, stress or tiredness are known to be the cause of many accidents. A system which recognizes the state of the driver and e.g. suggests breaks when stress level is too high or driver is too tired would enable large savings and reduces accident. Today differ-ent sensors enable clinician to determine a driver’s status with high accuracy and we have also previously devel-oped systems that are able to determine a person’s stress level automatically in a home environment. If the same accuracy would be available in a driver situation accidents and costs could be significantly reduced (e.g., estimates are made that as much as 33% of all accidents are caused by sleepiness [1]). The aim of the project is to develop an “intelligent” system that can monitor and manage drivers’ concentration depending on psychological and behavioral conditions/status using different non intrusive sensor sig-nals together with physiological sensors. A combination of different low cost sensors together with algorithms from artificial intelligence used in e.g. clinical research will be used to reach a high reliability.

ITS-EASY Leader: Ivica Crnkovic

Members: Ivica Crnkovic, Kristina Lundkvist, Stig Larsson, Andreas Ermedahl, Malin Rosqvist, Gunnar Widforss

Research group: Software Engineering

Start: 2011

End: 2017

Funding: KKS

ITS-EASY is the new post graduate school within embed-ded systems. The project is starting up in the spring of 2011 with recruitment of 15 PhD students for employ-ment at MDH or at one of the participating companies. ITS-EASY is funded by KKS and the 9 participating compa-nies and has a budget of total 93,6 MSEK.

NovaMedTech II Leader: Maria LindénMembers: Maria Lindén, Marcus Bergblomma,Mats Björkman, Mikael Ekström, Martin Ekström, Peter Funk, Mia Folke,Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, ShahinaBegum, Bo von Schéele


Start: 2011

End: 2015

Partners: Linköping University, Örebro county council, Västmanland county council, Västerås municipality, Sörm-land county council, Katrineholm municipality, Uppsala University, and others

Funding: EU objective 2

The intention of NovaMedTech is to create necessary conditions for the region of eastern central Sweden to take the lead on the industrial development within new medical technologies. The initiative also aims to meet the future needs of healthcare products and ser-vices. To succeed, NovaMedTech will utilize the very good basicconditions that exist in the region in terms of business, research (in universities and colleges), advanced healthcare (from home care, home health care / commu-nity careto specialized care in university hospitals) and activities of established knowledge centers. The initiative is further strengthened by the various counties’ comple-mentary strengths. To ensure the development of new products the resources focus of NovaMedTech is divided into twodifferent product areas: medical technology for distributed care and personal health and medical tech-nologies for image-based diagnosis and therapy.

The new NovaMedTech is an objective 2 project within entrepreneurship in Biomedical engineering, personal-ized health, as direction. It is a collaboration between Västmanland, Östergötland, Sörmland Örebro län, and a smaller part of Uppsala University. Mälardalen University is one of the key-actors in this project. The project is a collaboration between academic partners, county councils, municipalities and industry in the region. In total, the project size is 57,8 MSEK.


RUNNER Leader: Lars Asplund

Members: Lars Asplund, Carl Ahlberg, Giacomo Spampinato


Start: 2011

End: 2014

Funding: EU Eurostar

The ultimate objective of RUNNER is to deliver a recon-figurable platform prototype with excessive cross-domain applicability. In RUNNER, we believe that in a few years there would be millions of robots in various application areas that will all be navigated in an autonomous manner based on 3D video capture; such robots can be efficiently and inexpensively built based on the provided innovative highly flexible infrastructure. RUNNER will:

Design and Implement • a family of innovative cue ex-traction modules supporting very high rates by taking full advantage of the high processing power provided by the high-end reconfigurable devices.

Design and Implement real-time reconfigurable object •sensing mechanisms which will take advantage of the accurate and fast cue extraction schemes and the high processing power provided by the high-end Reconfigu-rable devices.

Design and Implement a novel Navigation Scheme •based on the advanced perception provided by the proposed reconfigurable system.

Develop innovative methods for linking the advanced •perception provided with navigation and early warning actions

Design and Implement a sophisticated 3D reconstruct-•ing system, tailored to the needs of the cue-extraction modules which will be implemented in Reconfigurable Logic.

Develop and implement the middleware for the seam-•less programming, configuration and management of the RUNNER infrastructure.

Prototype and validate RUNNER’s complete infrastruc-•ture and demonstrate its efficiency and wide applicabil-ity in two real-world trials.


Ahlberg, Carl

Ahmed, Mobyen Uddin

Mobyen Uddin Ahmed got his first M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Institute of Science and Technology, under National University, Bangladesh, in 1999. He received his second M.Sc. in Com-puter Engineering from Dalarna University, Sweden, in 2005. Previously (2000 to 2004), he worked as a software engineer at DataSoft Systems Bangladesh Ltd. He started working as a research engineer at Mälardalen University, in the Artificial Intelligence group, in 2006. Currently he is enrolled as a PhD student and aiming to invent personalized and adaptive methods, techniques to develop a computer-based system that can help clinicians. His research areas are decision-support systems, case-based reasoning, rule-based reasoning, fuzzy logic, knowledge/experience sharing and textual information retrieval .

Carl Ahlberg joined the Robotics group at the School of Innovation Design and Technology in 2009 as a PhD student. His research area is stereo vision systems for robots. He received his M.Sc. in Infor-mation Technology from Uppsala University in 2003, specializing in Human-Computer Interaction and Signal Processing. Before starting his PhD studies Carl has worked at Senseboard AB (R&D), IAR Systems AB (Product related development engineer) and Hectronic AB (Support Manager).

Abrahamsson, Henrik

Henrik Abrahamsson is a PhD student at ISS and a researcher in the Communication Networks and Systems Laboratory at SICS. His main research interests are in the areas of Internet traffic management, IPTV distribution, and in the evolution of the Internet architecture. Henrik is currently involved in the SICS Center for Networked Systems and in the Chinese-Swedish collaboration on Resource Management for IP-Based Mobile Communication Systems.

Lars Asplund is Professor in Computer Science at Mälardalen University since 2001. He received his PhD in Physics in 1977 from Uppsala University. After five years at the Swedish National Institue for Building Research Lars returned to Uppsala University 1982; first at the Department of Physics, where docent competence was received and he created a new direction including electronics, com-puter engineering and physics. Later Lars moved to the Department of Computer Systems (DoCS), both as researcher and as head of department. From 2001 Lars has been working as professor and he was one of the driving forces behind the project Robotdalen, and created 2003 the first Civilin-genjörsprogram in Robotics in Sweden, and Lars has been the leader of that program. Among pro-jects that have been well know the following can be mentioned: Dasher – a running robot; Roony, a Lunar Rover; Ralf II, an underwater robot; Robocygne, a dancing swan robot.

Asplund, Lars

Staff at ISS


Dodig-Crnkovic, Gordana

Gordana Dodig Crnkovic is an associate professor in Computer Science. Her research is in Com-puting and Philosophy, Foundations of Information Science and Theory of Science. She teaches courses in those subjects on graduate and undergraduate level. She has written a book Informa-tion and Computation Nets in 2009 and published two edited volumes: Information, Computa-tion, Cognition with Susan Stuart in 2007 and Information and Computation with Mark Burgin, forthcoming in 2010. She is a scientific committee member of the International Science of Information Institute, steering committee member of European Computing and Philosophy Organization, Member of the Editorial Board of the World Scientific Series in Information Studies and Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Information.

Baran is a member of the Computational perception laboratory. He received his PhD from MDH in April 2005. His thesis supervisor was Prof. Anders Lansner, Computational neuroscience and Neurocomputing Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. After working at MDH until October 2005, as a researcher, he joined the Computer Vision and Pattern Analysis Lab, headed by Prof. Aytül Erçil, Sabanci U., Istanbul, Turkey, as a postdoc. The researched conducted at the VPALAB was on driver fatigue. In April 2007 he joined the Ivanka Savic Berglund Group, Karolinska Inst. as a postdoc. He returned to MDH in August 2007 as a senior lecturer and is also director of studies since 2008. His main research interests are information processing in the brain, and human-robot interaction.

Çürüklü, Baran

Bergblomma, Marcus

Björkman, Mats

Mats Björkman is professor in Computer Communication at Mälardalen University, appointed in 2001. He received his M.Sc. in Computer Science from Uppsala University in 1986, and his PhD in Computer Systems from Uppsala University in 1993. Mats held a post-doctoral research position at University of Arizona in Tucson between 1993 and 1995. He then returned to Uppsala University as a senior lecturer and researcher in computer communication. In 2001 he moved to a chair as professor in Computer Communication at Mälardalen University. Professor Björkman’s research interests include communication performance analysis and predictability, small embedded sys-tems, wireless communication and system-wide performance and predictability issues, including safety, security and other reliability issues.

Marcus Bergblomma is a PhD student at ISS. He received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Lund University 2005. Marcus research focus is in predictable time-critical wireless data communi-cation in harsh environments.

Begum, Shahina

Shahina Begum is a PhD student in the Artificial Intelligence group at Mälardalen University. Her research interests broadly lie in artificial intelligence, decision-support systems, knowledge-based systems, intelligent learning systems – case-based reasoning and data mining. Shahina got her M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, specialization in Intelligent Systems from Dalarna University, Sweden. She obtained her B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from Jahangirnagar Univer-sity, Bangladesh. During 2002-2003 she worked as a software engineer at Grameen Solutions Ltd., founded by Bangladeshi nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus.


Ekström, Mikael

Dr. Mikael “Micke” Ekström is senior lecturer in robotics with main research interests in under-water robotics, wireless communication and biomedical engineering. Micke has a background as physicist with a M.Sc. in materialphysics , 1993, and PhD in physics, 1999, from Uppsala Univer-sity. In 2003 Micke was appointed adjunct senior lecturer at the School of Computer and Informa-tion Science, Edith Cowen University, Perth, Western Australia after a stay as visiting fellow.

Ekström, Martin

Fredrik Ekstrand is a PhD student within the area of Computer Vision. His research focus is on implementation of vision algorithms in parallel computing hardware (FPGA), for applications in stereo vision, navigation and object recognition. Fredrik has previously worked as a product developer and a technical consultant.

Ekstrand, Fredrik

Martin Ekström is PhD student with main research wireless communication and biomedical engineering. Martin has a M.Sc. in Electronics since 2006 from Mälardalen University. His research interests are within the development of hardware platforms for wireless communication. He is currently involved in projects researching predictability and reliable communication in harsh environments.

Dr Peter Funk is Professor in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Mälardalen Universi-ty, leading the intelligent systems group, supervising PhD students and leading research projects. He received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh, Department of Artificial Intelligence 1998 (one of the leading Universities in AI). His research focus is intelligent, adaptive and learning sys-tems, embedded AI techniques and decision support for the medical, industrial and business area. He is reviewer and guest editor for journals, organiser/reviewer for conferences and invited guest speaker. He is the first to receive the Wallenberg grant for scientific research three times.

Funk, Peter

Mia Folkes research profile is to develop sensor systems and methods of physiological measu-rements. As a continuation of her PhD thesis, her main focus is continuing development and evaluation of an electro acoustic sensor system and method to identify the lactate threshold of athletes using only the amount of carbon dioxide in respiratory air. Further, Mia is involved in other research projects focusing on sensor systems for: stress levels using finger temperature and AI algorithms, blood flow using optical techniques, and movement using gyros and accelerome-ters. Mia also teaches courses that deals with measuring techniques and safety aspects of equip-ment used in hospitals.

Folke, Mia


Tommy Henriksson received the M.Sc EE degree from Mälardalen University in 2003. In 2004 he joined the Department of Computer Science and Electronics as a PhD student in the field of mi-crowave imaging in biomedical applications. He followed a Swedish-French convention for joint supervision with Universitié Paris-Sud 11, from Dec. 2006. He received his Licentiate of Engine-ering degree in Electronics, April 2007, with the thesis entitled ”Microwave Imaging of Biological Tissues: Applied Toward Breast Tumor Detection”. He received a French-Swedish PhD degree in Physics and Electronics respectively, June 2009, with the dissertation entitled ”Contribution to Quantitative Microwave Imaging Techniques for Biomedical Applications”. His research interests include Microwave Imaging in terms of algorithm formalization, calibration and physical modelling.

Henriksson, Tommy

Hagblad, Jimmie

Jimmie Hagblad is a PhD student at IDT. He received a master’s degree in electronic science and engineering from Mälardalen University in 2007, and continued with PhD studies at the same department directly. Jimmie’s research interests include non-invasive methods for evaluation of peripheral blood flow. He is currently involved in projects researching the development and prevention of pressure ulcers.

Gerdtman, Christer

Christer Gerdtman is an industrial PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering research group at Mälardalen University. He has a background in electricity telecommunications and has been working in Swedish industry since 1989, mainly as an electronics engineer but also as a software developer. Christer received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Lund University in 1999. Since 2005 he shares his time between industry and academia. His research project is alternative computer mouse for people with disabilities, the devices may be either wired or wireless. The research interest include small embedded systems, (MEMS) sensors and sensor systems, wireless and wired communication, man-machine interaction, development of technical aids and also manufacturing and production aspects.

Girs, Svetlana

Svetlana Girs is a PhD student in the Wireless Communication group at Mälardalen University since September 2010. She received her B. Sc. and M.Sc. in Telecommunications from St.-Petersburg State Polytechnic University in 2009 and 2011 respectively. Her current research is focused on improving the reliability of wireless industrial sensor networks.

Garcia Castaño, Javier

PhD Javier García Castaño works as a consulting senior lecturer at Mälardalen University. He received his PhD in Electronics from the department of Electronics at MDH in 2006 where he specialized in sensor mobility in short range wireless networks. His research interests are wireless ad-hoc networks applied to biomedical engineering. He is currently involved in several biomedical engineering projects researching power consumption modelling in short range wireless biomedical sensor networks. During the last year he has been deeply involved in the planning and design of the health device profile for Bluetooth technology.


Thomas Larsson is a teacher and researcher in Computer Science. He was promoted to assistant professor on March 1, 2008 for his pedagogic skills. Currently, his research interests are real-time computer graphics algorithms, spatial data structures, intersection test methods, real-time render-ing, and virtual reality. He recieved a bachelor and master degree in 1996 and 1999, respectively, in computer engineering. His PhD degree in computer science was completed in March, 2009.

Larsson, Thomas

Lidholm, Jörgen

Jörgen Lidholm is a PhD student in the robotics group at Mälardalen University. His main research interest is in vision based robot navigation, with focus on algorithm implementation on FPGAs. Jörgen got his M.Sc. in computer engineering in 2006 from Mälardalen University.

Karlsson, Ellinor

Ellinor Karlsson works as a research coordinator at IDT with a special focus on ISS. Before joining MDH Ellinor worked with communication at ABB Logistic Center. She has a masters degree in Business Administration with an orientation towards marketing and organization from Mälar-dalen University in 2005.

Lindén, Maria

Rikard Lindell, PhD is a senior lecturer and manager of the department of Computer Science and Network (CSN). He is active in interaction design, and multimedia development for mobile embedded (mobile) systems with focus on principals and practice for novel interaction techniques. Rikard provides courses with the same focus. Hi is also an innovator and have received several awards, not at least a nomination for the innovator of the year – Guldstänk 2009. In November 2010 Rikard’s start up company will release C3LOOPS an iPad-app for collaborating music and video artists. C3LOOPS is a direct commercialization result of his dissertation “Jag älskar att allt ligger överst” – I love that everything is on top: a design study of surface interaction for collabora-tive multimedia performances.

Maria Lindén is an associate professor in Biomedical Engineering. She is director of the research profile Intelligent Sensor Systems at the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering Maria is re-sponsible for the region Västmanland in the large EU Objective 2 project NovaMedTech (2008-2011). Her research interests are Biomedical Engineering with focus on wearable, wireless sensor systems for acquisition and processing of physiological data.

Lindell, Rikard


Shahid Raza works in the area of wireless security in general and wireless sensor networks security in particular. Currently he is working on WirelessHART security. WirelessHART is a new standard for Industrial process automation and control system. His future interest may include implementa-tion of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) for the Contiki operating system.

Raza, Shahid

Giacomo Spampinato is currently working as post doctoral researcher within the Robotics group at the School of Innovation Design and Technology from 2009. His research activity is mainly focused on autonomous navigation and 3D localization for mobile industrial robots using stereo-vision. His background spans from industrial to service robotics. He obtained his PhD in 2006 at the University of Catania, Italy, focusing on humanoid robotics and artificial limbs. After spending one year working in industry developing electronics for electrical appliances, he came back to academia working for 2 years as a post doctoral researcher focusing on control for industrial robots in welding applications, together with KUKA and the AMRC (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre) in Sheffield.

Spampinato, Giacomo

Petrovic, Nikola

Nikola Petrovic was born in Nis, Serbia in 1972. He received the M.Sc EE degree from Mälardalen University, in 2006.In the autumn same year he joined the Department of Computer Science and Electronics as a PhD student. His research interests include characterization of material properties and antenna and RF design for Microwave Imaging.

Otterskog, Magnus

Magnus Otterskog was born 1972 in Arboga. Engineering studies at Örebro University between 1992 and 1996 followed by part time employment at Ericsson Mobile Communications in Kumla and in parallel studying courses at Chalmers and in Lund. PhD student in Örebro 2000-2006, finished Nov 2006. Employed as a researcher at Mälardalen University from October 2006. Now employed as senior lecturer and project leader of Microwave Imaging project aiming to develop a system for mammography to complement or replace X-ray mammography. Specialized knowledge within RF-measurements and electromagnetic wave propagation. PhD student project within wave propagation for communication.

Dr. Ella Olsson is a postdoctoral research fellow at Mälardalen University in Västerås since October2009. She started her PhD studies in computer science at Mälardalen University in collaborationwith ABB Robotics in 2004 and finished in 2009. Her research area lies within Artificial Intelli-gence and its application within Condition Based Monitoring and maintenace (CBM) of industrialmachines and implementation of intelligent CBM systems.

Olsson, Ella


Elisabeth Uhlemann is associate professor in Communications Systems at Halmstad University. Since March 2009, she is located at Mälardalen University working in the VINNMER project R2D2 (Reliable Real-time communications for Dependable Distributed systems), collaborating with researchers from ISS and MRTC. Elisabeth got her PhD degree in communications theory from Chalmers in 2004. She has held visiting positions at the University of South Australia in 2005 and the Technical University of Berlin in 2007. She was previously with Volvo Technology, 2005-2009, on an industrial post doc position, where she was involved in several EU projects dealing with ve-hicular communications. Her research is directed towards real-time communications, incremental redundancy, cooperative networks, cross-layer design, vehicular and industrial communications.

Uhlemann, Elisabeth

Xiong, Ning

Ning Xiong is associate professor (docent) in artificial intelligence/learning systems. He obtained the PhD from the University of Kaiserslautern (Germany) with outstanding distinction. He was awarded DAAD scholarship from 1995 to 2000 by the German Government. He is a member of the Intelligent Systems group within the Intelligent Sensor Systems and Embedded Systems research profile at Mälardalen University. His research interests include: case-based reasoning, multi-sensor data fusion, fuzzy systems, management of uncertainty, machine learning, as well as evolutionary computation. His research emphasizes integration of various computational intelligence techniques to enhance system capability and their applications in industrial and medical domains.

Johan joined ABB in 1995 and has held various positions such as commissioning engineer, lead engineer for electrification and automation, software architect, project manager and Swedish pro-duct manager for intelligent low voltage switchgears. In 2005 he was nominated as specialist in industrial communication. He joined the industrial communication and embedded (ICE) group at ABB Corporate Research in 2008 and is currently working as principal scientist and research area coordinator for embedded systems. Johan Åkerberg received both his M.Sc and Lic.Eng degree in computer engineering from Mälardalen University and is expected to defend his PhD thesis in fall 2011.

Åkerberg, Johan

Kan Yu started his PhD studies at Mälardalen University in October, 2010. He arrived in Sweden in 2008. Before that, he received his B.Sc. from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in China in 2005 and worked in Huawei Tech. Co. Ltd. and Datang Tele. Co. as an embedded software engineer for three years. In 2010, he received a M.Sc. from Chalmers University of Technology in commmunication engineering program. Now his research interests are embedded systems and wireless sensor networks.

Yu, Kan


PublicationsBooks

Giacomo Spampinato, Jörgen Lidholm, Fredrik Ekstrand, Carl Ahlberg, Mikael Ekström, Lars Asplund: 1. Navigation in a box. Stereovision for industry automation, INTECH, ISBN: 978-953-7619-X-X, October, 2010

Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Mark Burgin 2. (Department of Mathematics, University of California, LA): Information and Computation, World Scientific Publishing Co. Series in Information Studies, ISBN: 978-981-4295-47-5, 2010

Journals

Annika Kaisdotter Andersson (Jonsson), Bertil Hök 3. (Hök Instrument AB), Mikael Ekström: Improved breath alcohol analysis in patients with depressed consciousness, Medical & Biologicakl Engineering & Computing , vol 48, nr 11, p1099-1105, Springer, October, 2010

Annika Kaisdotter Andersson (Jonsson), Bertil Hök 4. (Hök Instrument AB), Mikael Ekström, Göran Hedensti-erna (external): Influence from breathing pattern on alcohol and tracer gas expirograms-Implications for alcolock use, Forensic Science International, October, 2010

Annika Kaisdotter Andersson (Jonsson), Bertil Hök 5. (Hök Instrument AB), Mikael Ekström: Improved breath alcohol analysis in patients with depressed consciousness, Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, p1 - 7, October, 2010

Sara Bergstrand 6. (external), Torsten Lönne (external), Anna-Christina Ek (external), Lars-Göran Lindberg (IMT, LiU), Maria Lindén, Margareta Lindgren (Medicine and Care Nursing Science, Faculty of Health Science, Linköpings University): Existence of tissue blood flow in response to external pressure in the sacral region of elderly individuals“ Using a prototype, Microcirculation, vol 17, p311-319, August, 2010

Jimmie Hagblad, Lars-Göran Lindberg 7. (IMT, LiU), Annika Kaisdotter Andersson (Jonsson), Sara Bergstrand (external), Margareta Lindgren (Medicine and Care Nursing Science, Faculty of Health Science, Linköpings Univer-sity), Anna-Christina Ek (external), Mia Folke, Maria Lindén: A technique based on laser Doppler flowmetry and photoplethysmography for simultaneously monitoring blood flow at different tissue depths , Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, vol 48, nr 5, p415-422, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, May, 2010

Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic: 8. The Cybersemiotics and Info-Computationalist Research Programmes as Platforms for Knowledge Production in Organisms and Machines, Entropy , vol 12, nr 4, p878-901, MDPI, April, 2010

Bertil Hök 9. (Hök Instrument AB), Håkan Pettersson (external), Annika Kaisdotter Andersson (Jonsson), Sjoerd Haasl (external), Per Åkerlund (external): Breath Analyzer for Alcolocks and Screening Devices, IEEE Sensors Jour-nal, Special Issue on Sensors for Breath Analysis, February, 2010

Theses

Mobyen Uddin Ahmed: 10. A case-based Multi-modal clinical system for stress management., Licentiate Thesis, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden, April, 2010

Annika Kaisdotter Andersson: 11. Improved breath alcohol analysis with use of carbon dioxide as the tracer gas, PhD Thesis, Mälardalen University Press, September, 2010

Articles in collection

Shahina Begum, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Ning Xiong, Peter Funk: 12. Intelligent Signal Analysis Using Case-Based Reasoning for Decision Support in Stress Management, Computational Intelligence in Healthcare 4, p 159-189, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg , ISBN: 978-3-642-14463-9, Editor(s): Isabelle Bichindaritz, Sachin Vaidya, Ashlesha Jain and Lakhmi C. Jain, 2010

Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Shahina Begum, , Ning Xiong, Peter Funk: 13. Case-Based Reasoning for Medical and Industrial Decision Support Systems, Successful Case-based Reasoning Applications, p 7-52, Springer-Verlag, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-642-14077-8, Editor(s): Stefania Montani and Lakhmi Jain, 2010


Conferences and workshops

Johan Åkerberg, Mikael Gidlund 14. (external), Jonas Neander, Tomas Lennvall, Mats Björkman: Deterministic Downlink Transmission in WirelessHART Networks enabling Wireless Control Applications, The 36th Annual Con-ference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), Phoenix, USA, November, 2010

Shahina Begum, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Peter Funk: 15. ECG Sensor Signal Analysis to Represent Cases in a Case-based Stress Diagnosis System, 10th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applica-tions in Biomedicine (ITAB 2010), p 193-198, Corfu, Greece, November, 2010

Christer Gerdtman, Maria Lindén: 16. Six-button Click Interface for a Disabled User by a adjustable multilevel Sip- and-Puff Switch, SIGRAD, the Swedish Chapter of Eurographics, Västerås, November, 2010

Maria Lindén: 17. Distanssjukvård - närhet på distans, Medicinteknikdagarna 2010, p 27, Umeå, October, 2010

Mats Björkman, Säkerhet i trådlös hemsjukvård – mer än bara tillförlitlighet, Medicinteknikdagarna 18. 2010, Umeå, Sweden, October 2010.

Nils-Erik Pettersson19. (Örebro läns landsting), Per Ask (external), Kristina Ekstrand (Katrineholms kommun), Peter Hult (Linköping University), Maria Lindén: NovaMedTech - En satsning på ny medicinsk teknik i Östra Mellansverige, , p 75, Umeå, October, 2010

Annica Kristoffersson 20. (external), Silvia Coradeschi (external), Maria Lindén, Amy Loutfi (external): Robotic telepresence - a healthcare professionals’ perspective, Medicinteknikdagarna 2010, p 91, Umeå, October, 2010

Mia Folke, Lotta Brangefält 21. (external), Lars Cernerud (Department of Caring & Public Health Sciences, Mdh), Anne Söderlund (external): Främja fysisk aktivitet med LACTA och motiverande samtal, , p 150, Medicinteknik-dagarna 2010, Umeå, Sweden, October, 2010

Jimmie Hagblad, Mia Folke, Lars-Göran Lindberg 22. (IMT, LiU), Maria Lindén: Interference free monitoring of blood flow at multiple depths, , p 52, Medicinteknikdagarna, Umeå, October, 2010

, Batu Akan, Baran Çürüklü: 23. Incremental Multimodal Interface for Human-Robot Interaction, 15th IEEE Interna-tional Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2009. (ETFA 2010), IEEE, Bilbao, Spain, September, 2010

Johan Åkerberg, Frank Reichenbach 24. (external), Mats Björkman: Enabling Safety-Critical Communication using WirelessHART and PROFIsafe, 15th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA), Bilbao, Spain, September, 2010

Henrik Abrahamsson, Mats Björkman, 25. Simulation of IPTV caching strategies, International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), Ottawa, Canada, July 2010.

Rezaul Hoque, Andreas Johnsson, Christofer Flinta, Svante Ekelin, Mats Björkman, 26. A self-organizing scal-able network tomography control protocol for active measurement methods, International Symposium on Perfor-mance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), Ottawa, Canada, July 2010.

Johan Åkerberg, Mikael Gidlund 27. (external), Tomas Lennvall, Jonas Neander, Mats Björkman: Integration of WirelessHART Networks in Distributed Control Systems using PROFINET IO, 8th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Osaka, Japan, July, 2010

Ning Xiong, Peter Funk: 28. Combined feature selection and similarity modeling in case-based reasoning using hierarchi-cal memetic algorithms, Proc. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, p 1537-1542, IEEE, July, 2010

Nikola Petrovic, Tommy Henriksson (Gunnarsson), Magnus Otterskog: 29. Antenna Modeling Issues in Quantita-tive Image Reconstruction Using a Flexible Microwave Tomography System, Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2010 Cambridge, p 861-866, The Electromagnetics Academy 777 Concord Avenue, Suite 207 Cambridge, MA 02138, Boston, July, 2010

Ella Olsson, Peter Funk, Alf Andersson 30. (Volvo Car Corporation Manufacturing Engineering): Case-Based Rea-soning Applied to Geometric Production Measurements, 1st International Workshop and Congress on eMain-tenance June 22-24, 2010 in Luleå, Sweden, p 25-28, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden, Editor(s):Kumar , U; Karim, R and Parida, A, June, 2010

Johan Hägg, Batu Akan, Baran Çürüklü, Lars Asplund: 31. Automatic Generation of Neural Networks for Gesture Recognition, Working paper, June, 2010


Marcus Bengtsson, Anders Fundin, Mats Deleryd, Antti Salonen, , Peter Funk, Carina Andersson, Hassan 32. Qureshi: Integrating Quality and Maintenance Development – Opportunities and Implications, COMADEM 2010, 23th International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management, p 821-828, Comadem International, Nara, Japan, Editor(s):S. Okumura, T. Kawai, P. Chen, R.B.K.N. Rao, June, 2010

Peter Funk, Ning Xiong: 33. Why we need to move to intelligent and experience based monitoring and diagnostic sys-tems, COMADEM 2010, 23th International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineer-ing Management, p 111-115, Comadem International, Nara, Japan, Editor(s):S. Okumura, T. Kawai, P. Chen, R.B.K.N. Rao, June, 2010

Philip Cavaco 34. ( former), Baran Çürüklü, Karl-Magnus Petersson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics): Artificial grammar processing in biologically plausible neural networks, Working paper, May, 2010

Christer Gerdtman, Maria Lindén: 35. Test Rig for MEMS-accelerometers, MSW 2010, Micronano Systems Work-shop, Stockholm, Sweden, Editor(s): Göran Stemme, Niclas Roxhed and Wouter van der Wijngaart, May, 2010

Jimmie Hagblad, Mia Folke, Lars-Göran Lindberg 36. (IMT, LiU), Maria Lindén: A probe combining two optical techniques for monitoring of blood flow in different vascular depths - investigation of interference, pHealth 2010: 7th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health, Berlin, Germany, May, 2010

Christer Gerdtman, Marcus Bergblomma: 37. Trådlöst I/O i en tuff industrimiljö, Scandinavian Electronic Event, Stockholm, Sweden, April, 2010

Baran Çürüklü, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Batu Akan: 38. Towards Industrial Robots with Human Like Moral Respon-sibilities, 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Osaka, Japan, March, 2010

Batu Akan, Baran Çürüklü, Giacomo Spampinato, Lars Asplund: 39. Towards Robust Human Robot Collaboration in Industrial Environments, 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Osaka, Japan, March, 2010

Technical reports

Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Shahina Begum, Mohd. Siblee Islam 40. (external): Heart Rate and Inter-beat Interval Computation to Diagnose Stress, Technical Report, MRTC, September, 2010

Shahina Begum, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Bo von Schéele 41. (PBMStressMedicine AB), Erik Olsson (PBM Sweden AB), Peter Funk: Development of a Stress Questionnaire: A Tool for Diagnosing Mental Stress, Technical Report, MRTC, June, 2010

Master theses

Computer Science

ANURADHA SURYADEVARA: Surveying and evaluating tools for managing processes for software-intensive systems

MANZOOR AHMAD: A Code Generator for Software Component Services in Smart Devices

THOMAS SÖRENSEN: Test Process Improvement & Test/Build Tool Evaluation

MUHAMMAD RAFIQUE DANISH: Component Repository Browser

ROBIN KJELLIN HADLEY: Monitoring system for free form modeling machines at Digital Mechanics

DARYAN YASSIN: Utveckling av programvara till USB I/O

FARAHNAZ YEKEH: Hierarchical server-based communication with switched Ethernet

SHAHID IQBAL TARAR: Web based sales management system

IVO PETKOV: GUI for componentbehavior - based on REMES

ERIK ÖSTRÖM: Building and experimentally evaluating a smart antenna for low power wireless communication

PABLO SANTIBANEZ JARA: Independent Local Locator Substrate Indirection Transport - ILLSIT

FREDRIK JANSSON: Att stärka innovation i mjukvaruföretag

HANG YIN: Adaptive Embedded Systems


CEM HIZLI: Thermal optimization of VEO+ projector

PANON SUPIRATANA: Graphical visualization and analysis tool of data entities in embedded systems engineering

ARVIND OJHA: Comparing Applicability of Test Design Techniques for Telecom systems

CHRISTIAN SELANDER: Utveckling av programvara till USB I/O

TORD KARLSSON: Enhanced Automotive Real-Time Testing Trough Increased Dvelopment Process Quality

GUIDO DI CAMPLI: Comparing Test Design Techniques for Open Source Systems

JENIS KAVADIYA: Test Derivation and Reuse through Horizontal transformation of System models

SAJJAD ALI KHAN: Component Repository Browser

VIJAYA KRISHNA CHERUKURI: Model Based Testing for Non-Functional Requirements

ADNAN GOHAR: Analyzing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in Open Source Products

JOHAN HOLMQVIST: Enhanced Automotive Real-Time Testing Trough Increased Dvelopment Process Quality

HUSSAN IFTIKHAR: Performance Testing and Analysis of Modern Web Technologies

MIKAEL SVENSSON: Independent Local Locator Substrate Indirection Transport - ILLSIT

JESPER SÖDERLUND: Test Process Improvement & Test/Build Tool Evaluation

NITESH NARAYAN: Advanced Intranet Search Engine

INDERJEET SINGH OBEROI: Development and Deployment of a Tiny OCL Interpreter using C++

SRIRAM SUNDAR RAJAN: Effectiveness of Tracing in a Multicore Environment

LINUS KARLSSON: Crack Detection in Welding Process using Acoustic Emission

SOUMYA KANTI CHAKRABORTY: Efficiency of LTTng as a Kernel and Userspace Tracer on Multicore Environment

VENKATA NAGA ADITHYA GOLLAPUDI: Comparing Applicability of Test Design Techniques for Telecom systems

SATISH KUMAR JAISWAL: Development and Deployment of a Tiny OCL Interpreter using C++

CHRISTOFFER LARSSON: Vidareutveckling av PROFIBUS-modul

SAVINO ORDINE: Comparing Test Design Techniques for Open Source Systems

MRIDUL CHOPRA: Building an OCL Code Generator in Java

ROMIK GUHA ANJOY: Efficiency of LTTng as a Kernel and Userspace Tracer on Multicore Environment

BEAULAH VINEELA PASUPULATI: Traceability in model based testing

CAROLINE UPPSÄLL: How to Incorporate Security Requirements into ArchWiz Tool

ZHOU JIALE: Telecom and Internet Service Mashups in Robotics: Architecture,Design and Prototyping

ANDREAS FORSBERG: Vidareutveckling av PROFIBUS-modul

PRIYADARSHAN PATIL: Building an OCL Code Generator in Java

PIYUSH GUPTA: Model Based Testing for Non-Functional Requirements

APARNA VIJAYA: Supporting the automatic test case and oracle generation using system models

ANDREAS JOHNSEN: Architecture-Based Verification of Software-Intensive Systems

MARCOS JOSE CORONADO: Evaluering av realtidsdatabaser i reglersystem

MOHSIN JAVED KHAN: Performance Testing and Analysis of Modern Web Technologies

NARENDRAN SIVAKUMAR: Effectiveness of Tracing in a Multicore Environment

GANGADHAR CHALAPAKA: A Software Engineering Approach to Computer Networks Management

FREDRIK ERIKSSON: Porting OSE Systems to Linux

ANA GASI: Live TV Broadcasting via Mobile Devices


Electronics

LUKAS KNAPIK: Development of a Multi-bus platform for automation testbed

LUIS HERMOSA SANTOS: Research for energetic improvement of wireless sensor network based in bluetooth

MATHIAS ISAKSSON: Development of a Multi-bus platform for automation testbed

MELIKA HOZHABRI: Development of Additional Functionality: REB670 Busbar Protection

CHRISTIAN PAULSSON: Dasher the running robot

VICTOR RIVERO PINDADO: Monocular Visual SLAM based on Inverse Depth Parametrization

FREDRIK PAULSSON: Development of an Adaptive Voice Amplifier for Medical Purposes

FREDRIK EKLUND: Development of an Adaptive Voice Amplifier for Medical Purposes

MIKAEL BOHLIN: Test bench for a Distibuted Data Collector (DDC)

JOHAN SÖDERROOS: Prediction of Expected Life Length of Motor Locks

PATRIK BJÖRKMAN: Development of a collision avoidance system for a videoconferencing robot

LARS ODENS HEDMAN: Development of a collision avoidance system for a videoconferencing robot

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