Report Intelligent Sensor Systems

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1 Annual Report 2010 Intelligent Sensor Systems

2 2 Intelligent Sensor Systems Intelligent Sensor Systems Maria Lindén, Associate Professor and Director of Intelligent Sensor Systems School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University. Phone: 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 industry and surrounding society, and focuses towards mobile, intelligent sensor systems for increased safety, productivity 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, biomedical 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

3 Intelligent Sensor Systems 3 Research groups Computational Perception Laboratory Leader: Senior lecturer Baran Çürüklü, [email protected], Activities range from defining and testing hypotheses on mechanisms behind perception to design of artifacts based on these hypotheses, such as robots. 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 Leader: Professor Lars Asplund, [email protected], Members: Baran Çürüklü, Batu Akan, Johan Hägg. Intelligent Systems group Leader: Professor Peter Funk, [email protected], 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 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 Leader: Associate professor Maria Lindén, [email protected], Leader: Professor Mats Björkman, [email protected], Focusing on research in wireless sensor networks; communication energy optimization, safe and secure wireless industrial automation, reliable wireless communication in harsh environments and content distribution 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 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.

4 4 Intelligent Sensor Systems Research projects at ISS Algorithms & Protocols Enhancing Mobility Support in Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Bluetooth and Zigbee Leader: 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 b and Bluetooth. The results of the research 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: End: Partners: Elektronik Mekanik AB Funding: KK-stiftelsen This project has the aim to develop an alternative computer 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-electromechanical 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 system (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 parameters. The functionality can be extended by further personal settings, programming the mouse to individual optimal 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 process, total 23 users have been interviewed and 3 persons have participated in the long-term test (6 months). The study shows that a computer mouse based on MEMSgyroscopes 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: End: Partners: MDH, Ericsson Funding: VINNOVA Project BARTAP aims at applying the BART network capacity 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: End: 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 communication of ALS and paralyzed patients with their environments; and to enable people with spinal cord injuries to physically manipulate their surroundings by controlling neuroprostheses. This new approach has been made possible thanks to progress in EEG analysis and in information technology, which has led to a better understanding of psychophysical aspects of the EEG signals. BCI systems

5 Intelligent Sensor Systems 5 enable information flow the brain directly to the outside world. For widespread use of brain signals for such objectives, 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 connected to the head surface. In this project, we consider noninvasive 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 braincomputer 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 knowledge 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. Increasing 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, psychology, 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 interference Leader: Mats Björkman Members: Mats Björkman, Maria Lindén, Svetlana Girs, Kan Yu, Marcus Bergblomma, Martin Ekström, Mikael Ekström, Johan Åkerberg, Mikael Gidlund Research group: Wireless communication Start: End: Partners: VG Power and DELTA Funding: KKS The project investigates how safety in wireless communication can be guaranteed in spite of electromagnetic interference. InMaint - Intelligent Monitoring and Maintenance in Production Industry Leader: Peter Funk Members: Peter Funk, Ning Xiong External: Marcus Bengtsson, Mats Jackson Research group: Intelligent systems Start: End: 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 applicability 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 maintenance needs at the engineering design stage such as Design for (or out) maintenance, RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Supportability) integration 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 experience 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.

6 6 Intelligent Sensor Systems LACTA - a new method to identify the lactate threshold Leader: Mia Folke Members: Mia Folke Research group: Biomedical Engineering Start: End: The lactate threshold is a good guideline for the endurance performance and for the control of training. Repeated 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 established 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 sensor system. MALTA Leader: Björn Åstrand (Halmstad University) Members: Lars Asplund, Giacomo Spampinato Research group: Robotics Start: End: 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 autonomous forklift system for paper reel handling Measurement system for prevention of pressure sores Leader: Maria Lindén 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 measurement of pressure, temperature and blood flow. Pressure 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 relieving principle and accumulate the least heat. There are not any standardized measurement methods for evaluating 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. Research group: Biomedical Engineering Start: 2002 End: 2011 Partners: Västerås finmekaniska AB, Medfield Diagnostics AB Funding: KK-stiftelsen, EU Microwaves are non-ionizing and hence less interfering 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, focusing on measurement techniques and inverse algorithm development.

7 Intelligent Sensor Systems 7 NovaMedTech Leader: Maria Lindén Members: Maria Lindén, Marcus Bergblomma, Mats Björkman, Mikael Ekström, Martin Ekström, Peter Funk, Mia Folke, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Shahina Begum, Bo von Schéele Research group: Biomedical Engineering Start: End: 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 distributed 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, incubator businesses, support of new business, seed financing, 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 captured, tested clinically, commercialized and implemented in the medical business. The goal of NovaMedTech during three-year period: 1. To build a network of healthcare, industry and research to identify new medical product ideas and to build information resources for NovaMedTech s activities. 2. To build product development and research activities closely in the fields of medical technology for distributed care and personal health and medical technologies for image-based diagnosis and therapy. 3. To identify, develop and clinically test and commercialize new medical device ideas in medical technology for distributed care and personal health and medical technologies for image-based diagnostic and therapeutic applications with commercial potential. 4. The growth in medical technology is increasing in the 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: End: University of Jena Universities of Exeter & Plymouth, Pen insula Medical School; University Exeter (Prof. Taylor) nstitute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (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 : 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 compared 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.

8 8 Intelligent Sensor Systems A Knowledge Library will provide clinicians with easily accessible summaries of evidence-based recommendations 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, 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 Publishing, Cambridge in RAP - Robotics, Automation and Process Control Leader at MDH: Mats Björkman Members: Mats Björkman, Johan Åkerberg Research group: Wireless communication Start: End: 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: End: 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 industrial 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: Partners: Volvo CE TESLA Time-critical & Safe WireLess Automation Leader: Mats Björkman Members: Mats Björman, Maria Lindén, Marcus Bergblomma, Mikael Ekström, Martin Ekström, Johan Åkerberg Research group: Wireless Communication Start: End: 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 Research group: Robotics 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 standard 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 algorithms in reconfigurable hardware. The current approach taken in this work is to find algorithms that work on a continuous data flow, using sliding windows, and thus eliminating the need for external memory for storing a complete image.

9 Intelligent Sensor Systems 9 Projects starting in 2011 Giraff+ Combing social interaction and long term monitoring for promoting independent living Leader: Maria Lindén Members: Maria Lindén Research group: Biomedical Engineering Start: 2011 End: 2014 Partners: Giraff AB, Örebro University Funding: EU FP7 The project is coordinated by Örebro University and is worth 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 transportation, 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 different sensors enable clinician to determine a driver s status with high accuracy and we have also previously developed 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 signals 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 embedded systems. The project is starting up in the spring of 2011 with recruitment of 15 PhD students for employment at MDH or at one of the participating companies. ITS-EASY is funded by KKS and the 9 participating companies 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 Research group: Biomedical Engineering Start: 2011 End: 2015 Partners: Linköping University, Örebro county council, Västmanland county council, Västerås municipality, Sörmland 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 services. 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 / community careto 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 resources focus of NovaMedTech is divided into twodifferent product areas: medical technology for distributed care and personal health and medical technologies for image-based diagnosis and therapy. The new NovaMedTech is an objective 2 project within entrepreneurship in Biomedical engineering, personalized 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.

10 10 Intelligent Sensor Systems RUNNER Leader: Lars Asplund Members: Lars Asplund, Carl Ahlberg, Giacomo Spampinato Research group: Robotics Start: 2011 End: 2014 Funding: EU Eurostar The ultimate objective of RUNNER is to deliver a reconfigurable 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 extraction 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 Reconfigurable 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 reconstructing system, tailored to the needs of the cue-extraction modules which will be implemented in Reconfigurable Logic. Develop and implement the middleware for the seamless programming, configuration and management of the RUNNER infrastructure. Prototype and validate RUNNER s complete infrastructure and demonstrate its efficiency and wide applicability in two real-world trials.

11 Intelligent Sensor Systems 11 Staff at ISS 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. Abrahamsson, Henrik 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 Information 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). Ahlberg, Carl Mobyen Uddin Ahmed got his first M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Institute of Science and Technology, under National University, Bangladesh, in He received his second M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Dalarna University, Sweden, in 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 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. Ahmed, Mobyen Uddin Asplund, Lars Lars Asplund is Professor in Computer Science at Mälardalen University since 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, computer 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 Civilingenjörsprogram in Robotics in Sweden, and Lars has been the leader of that program. Among projects 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.

12 12 Intelligent Sensor Systems 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 University, Bangladesh. During she worked as a software engineer at Grameen Solutions Ltd., founded by Bangladeshi nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. Begum, Shahina Marcus Bergblomma is a PhD student at ISS. He received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Lund University Marcus research focus is in predictable time-critical wireless data communication in harsh environments. Bergblomma, Marcus Björkman, Mats Mats Björkman is professor in Computer Communication at Mälardalen University, appointed in He received his M.Sc. in Computer Science from Uppsala University in 1986, and his PhD in Computer Systems from Uppsala University in Mats held a post-doctoral research position at University of Arizona in Tucson between 1993 and 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 systems, wireless communication and system-wide performance and predictability issues, including safety, security and other reliability issues. Çürüklü, Baran Baran is a member of the Computational perception laboratory. He received his PhD from MDH in April 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 His main research interests are information processing in the brain, and human-robot interaction. Dodig-Crnkovic, Gordana Gordana Dodig Crnkovic is an associate professor in Computer Science. Her research is in Computing 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 Information and Computation Nets in 2009 and published two edited volumes: Information, Computation, Cognition with Susan Stuart in 2007 and Information and Computation with Mark Burgin, forthcoming in 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.

13 Intelligent Sensor Systems 13 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 Dr. Mikael Micke Ekström is senior lecturer in robotics with main research interests in underwater 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 University. In 2003 Micke was appointed adjunct senior lecturer at the School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowen University, Perth, Western Australia after a stay as visiting fellow. Ekström, Mikael 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. Ekström, Martin Mia Folkes research profile is to develop sensor systems and methods of physiological measurements. 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 accelerometers. Mia also teaches courses that deals with measuring techniques and safety aspects of equipment used in hospitals. Folke, Mia Dr Peter Funk is Professor in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Mälardalen University, 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 systems, 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

14 14 Intelligent Sensor Systems 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. Garcia Castaño, Javier 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 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. Svetlana Girs is a PhD student in the Wireless Communication group at Mälardalen University since September 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. Girs, Svetlana 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. Hagblad, Jimmie Henriksson, Tommy Tommy Henriksson received the M.Sc EE degree from Mälardalen University in In 2004 he joined the Department of Computer Science and Electronics as a PhD student in the field of microwave imaging in biomedical applications. He followed a Swedish-French convention for joint supervision with Universitié Paris-Sud 11, from Dec He received his Licentiate of Engineering 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.

15 Intelligent Sensor Systems 15 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 Mälardalen University in Karlsson, Ellinor 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 rendering, 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, Larsson, Thomas 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. Lidholm, Jörgen 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 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 collaborative multimedia performances. Lindell, Rikard 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 responsible for the region Västmanland in the large EU Objective 2 project NovaMedTech ( ). Her research interests are Biomedical Engineering with focus on wearable, wireless sensor systems for acquisition and processing of physiological data. Lindén, Maria

16 16 Intelligent Sensor Systems Dr. Ella Olsson is a postdoctoral research fellow at Mälardalen University in Västerås since October She started her PhD studies in computer science at Mälardalen University in collaboration with ABB Robotics in 2004 and finished in Her research area lies within Artificial Intelligence and its application within Condition Based Monitoring and maintenace (CBM) of industrial machines and implementation of intelligent CBM systems. Olsson, Ella 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 , finished Nov Employed as a researcher at Mälardalen University from October 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. Otterskog, Magnus Nikola Petrovic was born in Nis, Serbia in 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. Petrovic, Nikola 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 implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) for the Contiki operating system. Raza, Shahid Spampinato, Giacomo Giacomo Spampinato is currently working as post doctoral researcher within the Robotics group at the School of Innovation Design and Technology from His research activity is mainly focused on autonomous navigation and 3D localization for mobile industrial robots using stereovision. 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.

17 Intelligent Sensor Systems 17 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 She has held visiting positions at the University of South Australia in 2005 and the Technical University of Berlin in She was previously with Volvo Technology, , on an industrial post doc position, where she was involved in several EU projects dealing with vehicular communications. Her research is directed towards real-time communications, incremental redundancy, cooperative networks, cross-layer design, vehicular and industrial communications. Uhlemann, Elisabeth 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. Xiong, Ning Kan Yu started his PhD studies at Mälardalen University in October, He arrived in Sweden in 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 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 product 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 Åkerberg, Johan

18 Intelligent Sensor Systems 19 Publications Books 1. Giacomo Spampinato, Jörgen Lidholm, Fredrik Ekstrand, Carl Ahlberg, Mikael Ekström, Lars Asplund: Navigation in a box. Stereovision for industry automation, INTECH, ISBN: X-X, October, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Mark Burgin (Department of Mathematics, University of California, LA): Information and Computation, World Scientific Publishing Co. Series in Information Studies, ISBN: , 2010 Journals 3. Annika Kaisdotter Andersson (Jonsson), Bertil Hök (Hök Instrument AB), Mikael Ekström: Improved breath alcohol analysis in patients with depressed consciousness, Medical & Biologicakl Engineering & Computing, vol 48, nr 11, p , Springer, October, Annika Kaisdotter Andersson (Jonsson), Bertil Hök (Hök Instrument AB), Mikael Ekström, Göran Hedenstierna (external): Influence from breathing pattern on alcohol and tracer gas expirograms-implications for alcolock use, Forensic Science International, October, Annika Kaisdotter Andersson (Jonsson), Bertil Hök (Hök Instrument AB), Mikael Ekström: Improved breath alcohol analysis in patients with depressed consciousness, Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, p1-7, October, Sara Bergstrand (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, p , August, Jimmie Hagblad, Lars-Göran Lindberg (IMT, LiU), Annika Kaisdotter Andersson (Jonsson), Sara Bergstrand (external), Margareta Lindgren (Medicine and Care Nursing Science, Faculty of Health Science, Linköpings University), 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, p , Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, May, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic: The Cybersemiotics and Info-Computationalist Research Programmes as Platforms for Knowledge Production in Organisms and Machines, Entropy, vol 12, nr 4, p , MDPI, April, Bertil Hök (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 Journal, Special Issue on Sensors for Breath Analysis, February, 2010 Theses 10. Mobyen Uddin Ahmed: A case-based Multi-modal clinical system for stress management., Licentiate Thesis, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden, April, Annika Kaisdotter Andersson: Improved breath alcohol analysis with use of carbon dioxide as the tracer gas, PhD Thesis, Mälardalen University Press, September, 2010 Articles in collection 12. Shahina Begum, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Ning Xiong, Peter Funk: Intelligent Signal Analysis Using Case-Based Reasoning for Decision Support in Stress Management, Computational Intelligence in Healthcare 4, p , Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN: , 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: , Editor(s): Stefania Montani and Lakhmi Jain, 2010

19 20 Intelligent Sensor Systems Conferences and workshops 14. Johan Åkerberg, Mikael Gidlund (external), Jonas Neander, Tomas Lennvall, Mats Björkman: Deterministic Downlink Transmission in WirelessHART Networks enabling Wireless Control Applications, The 36th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), Phoenix, USA, November, Shahina Begum, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Peter Funk: ECG Sensor Signal Analysis to Represent Cases in a Casebased Stress Diagnosis System, 10th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB 2010), p , Corfu, Greece, November, Christer Gerdtman, Maria Lindén: Six-button Click Interface for a Disabled User by a adjustable multilevel Sipand-Puff Switch, SIGRAD, the Swedish Chapter of Eurographics, Västerås, November, Maria Lindén: Distanssjukvård - närhet på distans, Medicinteknikdagarna 2010, p 27, Umeå, October, Mats Björkman, Säkerhet i trådlös hemsjukvård mer än bara tillförlitlighet, Medicinteknikdagarna 2010, Umeå, Sweden, October Nils-Erik Pettersson (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, Annica Kristoffersson (external), Silvia Coradeschi (external), Maria Lindén, Amy Loutfi (external): Robotic telepresence - a healthcare professionals perspective, Medicinteknikdagarna 2010, p 91, Umeå, October, Mia Folke, Lotta Brangefält (external), Lars Cernerud (Department of Caring & Public Health Sciences, Mdh), Anne Söderlund (external): Främja fysisk aktivitet med LACTA och motiverande samtal,, p 150, Medicinteknikdagarna 2010, Umeå, Sweden, October, Jimmie Hagblad, Mia Folke, Lars-Göran Lindberg (IMT, LiU), Maria Lindén: Interference free monitoring of blood flow at multiple depths,, p 52, Medicinteknikdagarna, Umeå, October, , Batu Akan, Baran Çürüklü: Incremental Multimodal Interface for Human-Robot Interaction, 15th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, (ETFA 2010), IEEE, Bilbao, Spain, September, Johan Åkerberg, Frank Reichenbach (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, Henrik Abrahamsson, Mats Björkman, Simulation of IPTV caching strategies, International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), Ottawa, Canada, July Rezaul Hoque, Andreas Johnsson, Christofer Flinta, Svante Ekelin, Mats Björkman, A self-organizing scalable network tomography control protocol for active measurement methods, International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), Ottawa, Canada, July Johan Åkerberg, Mikael Gidlund (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, Ning Xiong, Peter Funk: Combined feature selection and similarity modeling in case-based reasoning using hierarchical memetic algorithms, Proc. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, p , IEEE, July, Nikola Petrovic, Tommy Henriksson (Gunnarsson), Magnus Otterskog: Antenna Modeling Issues in Quantitative Image Reconstruction Using a Flexible Microwave Tomography System, Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2010 Cambridge, p , The Electromagnetics Academy 777 Concord Avenue, Suite 207 Cambridge, MA 02138, Boston, July, Ella Olsson, Peter Funk, Alf Andersson (Volvo Car Corporation Manufacturing Engineering): Case-Based Reasoning Applied to Geometric Production Measurements, 1st International Workshop and Congress on emaintenance 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

20 Intelligent Sensor Systems Marcus Bengtsson, Anders Fundin, Mats Deleryd, Antti Salonen,, Peter Funk, Carina Andersson, Hassan Qureshi: Integrating Quality and Maintenance Development Opportunities and Implications, COMADEM 2010, 23th International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management, p , Comadem International, Nara, Japan, Editor(s):S. Okumura, T. Kawai, P. Chen, R.B.K.N. Rao, June, Peter Funk, Ning Xiong: Why we need to move to intelligent and experience based monitoring and diagnostic systems, COMADEM 2010, 23th International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management, p , Comadem International, Nara, Japan, Editor(s):S. Okumura, T. Kawai, P. Chen, R.B.K.N. Rao, June, Philip Cavaco (former), Baran Çürüklü, Karl-Magnus Petersson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics): Artificial grammar processing in biologically plausible neural networks, Working paper, May, Christer Gerdtman, Maria Lindén: Test Rig for MEMS-accelerometers, MSW 2010, Micronano Systems Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, Editor(s): Göran Stemme, Niclas Roxhed and Wouter van der Wijngaart, May, Jimmie Hagblad, Mia Folke, Lars-Göran Lindberg (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, Christer Gerdtman, Marcus Bergblomma: Trådlöst I/O i en tuff industrimiljö, Scandinavian Electronic Event, Stockholm, Sweden, April, Baran Çürüklü, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Batu Akan: Towards Industrial Robots with Human Like Moral Responsibilities, 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Osaka, Japan, March, Batu Akan, Baran Çürüklü, Giacomo Spampinato, Lars Asplund: Towards Robust Human Robot Collaboration in Industrial Environments, 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Osaka, Japan, March, 2010 Technical reports 40. Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Shahina Begum, Mohd. Siblee Islam (external): Heart Rate and Inter-beat Interval Computation to Diagnose Stress, Technical Report, MRTC, September, Shahina Begum, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Bo von Schéele (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

21 22 Intelligent Sensor 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

22 Intelligent Sensor Systems 23 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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