Robotics and Avionics

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1 Professor Emeritus Lars Asplund Professor Kristina Lundqvist The Embedded Systems research area and Avionics Mer -14 hearing, May 21, 2014 Guest Professor Jose F Martinez Professor Fredrik Bruhn Professor Peter Funk School of Innovation, Design & Engineering (IDT) Mälardalen University Sr. lecturer Baran Cürüklü Ass. Professor Ning Xiong Ass. Professor Mikael Ekström Sr. lecturer Giacomo Spampinato Members of the R & A area Professors Associate staff Lars Asplund (Emeritus) Gordana D. Crnkovic(Full Prof) Kristina Lundqvist (Full) Peter Funk (Full) Thomas Larsson (Sr. Lect.) Mikael Ekström (Associate) Ashin Ameri (Lecturer) Ning Xiong (Associate) Teaching staff Jose F. Martinez (Guest) Fredrik Bruhn (Adjunct) Mirko Senkovski Senior lecturers Per Schlund Baran Cürüklü Tommy Nygren Giacomo Spampinato Doctoral students Fredrik Ekstrand Carl Ahlberg Batu Akan Thomas Olsson Miguel Leon Ortiz 2 1

2 140 R&A Publications & citations No. of publications : 49 journal articles 101 conference publications 32 other publications H-index The senior researcher s individual citation data # of citations i-1000 to i-10 for R&A [i-x = X publications with at least X citations] i-1000 i-500 i-250 i-100 i-50 i-30 i-20 i H-index for the R&A environment: 33 R&A Current research Avionics/ Aerospace Space Plug&play Avionics Artificial Intelligence High speed vision Human robot interaction Autonomous navigation and mapping GIMME3 - Heterogenous platform for big data analysis Intelligent systems in industry Artificial visual cortex Stereo vision FPGA 2

3 High speed stereo vision SVAHLA Stereo Vision Assisted Hauler and Loader Alignment The images are analyzed and segmented to identify color and shape. That information is then used to identify the bucket and estimate distance. 5 Industrial robotics Lightweight industrial robot design: Target: Energy saving Flexible and mobile automation Modular design Team: ABB, MDH New generation of parallel robots: Target: Improved space utilization and Scalability Team: ABB, Robotdalen, MDH High performance calibration: Target: Advanced modelling and Identification Absolute accuracy Team: ABB, MDH 3

4 Human-robot interaction Augmented Reality Window System Messages Window Automatically generated RAPID Code UNIBAP Distributed artificial intelligence & safety critical electronics Mälardalen Aerospace & Center (MARC) Heterogeneous safety critical high performance electronics Artificial Intelligence data fusion (neural networks) Unmanned Vehicles & Robot Unified Architectures Miniaturized (70 x 70 mm2) Safety Critical 1 TFLOP Heterogeneous supercomputer for big data analysis GIMME3 / UNIBAP e

5 Cooperation Academic Universities Catania (Italy) Charles Uni (Czech) ECUST (China) UPM (Spain) TU Crete (Greece) Institutes DKFI (DE) Robotdalen (SE) Industrial ABB Addiva Algosystems S.A Attendo AMD Bruhnspace AB INETSIS Meeq AB Motion Control AB Robyn AB Saab Dynamics SignalGenerIX Volvo CE R&A Current research Avionics/Aer ospace SPA Artificial Intelligence High speed vision Human robot interaction Autonomous navigation and mapping GIMME3 - Heterogenous platform for big data analysis Intelligent systems in industry Artificial visual cortex Stereo vision FPGA 5

6 R&A Current research Avionics/Aer ospace Artificial Intelligence SPA High speed vision Human robot interaction Autonomous navigation and mapping GIMME3- Heterogenous platform for big data analysis Intelligent systems in industry Artificial visual cortex Stereo vision FPGA MARC Mälardalen Aerospace and Robotic Center Avionics/Aer ospace Artificial Intelligence SPA Dependability High speed vision Holistic system view Human robot interaction Dependable electronics Autonomous navigation and mapping GIMME3- Heterogenous platform for big data analysis Intelligent systems in industry Artificial visual cortex Stereo vision FPGA 6

7 Underwater Cooperating Robots at MARC Subsea Industrial Complex Operations Intelligent remote-operation management, control and monitoring (Making decision tools) Intelligent environment recognition support and management (Vision and Acoustic) Intelligent coordination support and decision-making (Perception and Cognition) Communication and networking (Communication Models and protocols) Semantic Middleware and common information model (Service Discovery, Composition and Orchestration) 13 Research at MARC cont d Robust Virtual Networks & Unified Common Architectures (UNICA) Ad-hoc distributed network creation Unified Common Architecture (UNICA) with Virtual Network Protocol (VNP) software protocol Real-time Ada Ravenscar microkernel and UPPAAL modelling 14 7

8 Research and industry relevant education 5-year master of engineering in Bachelor of science in aeronautics Master program in Intelligent embedded systems (2-year) 5-year master of engineering in Aeronautics (coming) Strong support from industry for all programs MSc-thesis Projects SAAB contributes in the development of the new Aeronautics program Challenges Attract long term funding Strategic senior recruitment Attract funding for doctoral students Limited university (co-)funding 8

9 Strengths Relevant mix of complementary competences Computer Science, Electronics, Mechatronics, Artificial intelligence, Aeronautics and Physics Under water robotics identified as a challenging area in Horizon 2020 Good opportunities for future funding. Very well matching education Future doctoral students Availability of MSc students doing thesis work International research environment MDH staff + visitors and cooperation 9