KTH Linnaeus Center ACCESS [ACCESS] is the largest and leading research center in its field in Europe, being able to generate world-class research and being highly attractive for international recruitments and exchanges. MID-TERM EVALUATION REPORT 2012
ACCESS Linnaeus Center ACCESS was established from VR grant 2006 Developed into a leading European university research center in networked systems - 36 faculty, 25 postdocs, 100 PhD students - Basic funding from VR on 1.4 MEUR per year - Total research budget 2010 over 12 MEUR Significant scientific results and new programs Graduate school with >50 graduated PhD s Faculty renewal and mobility programs Extensive international and industrial collaborations External communication and dissemination 2
Motivation: The Great Societal Challenges Intelligent Transportation Smart Buildings Personalized Media Information and Communication Technology Urban Planning Health & Wellbeing Smart Grid Process Industry 3
Networked Systems Mobile access devices Cyber infrastructure Ubiquitous physical interactions 4
Scientific Research Problem Which are the fundamental principles and tools for the design of future networked systems? Sensing and actuation Transmission and radio Architectures and concepts Computation and algorithms 5
ACCESS Thematic Areas 6
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ACCESS Faculty Renewal Since 2006 Erik Aurell Mats Bengtsson Sonja Buchegger, SSF FFL, VR Mads Dam György Dán, VR Dimos Dimoragonas, VR Per Enqvist Carlo Fischione, VR, SRA Markus Flierl Victoria Fodor, VR Sarunas Girdzijauskas, SRA James Gross, SRA Håkan Hjalmarsson Johan Karlsson Peter Händel Xiaoming Hu Joakim Jaldén, SSF IG, VR Magnus Jansson Karl Henrik Johansson Mikael Johansson Gunnar Karlsson Bastiaan Kleijn Supriya Krishnamurthy, SRA Anders Lindquist Tobias Oechtering, SRA Björn Ottersten Panos Papadimitratos, EE Strat Alexander Proutiere, SRA, ERC Lars Rasmusen, VR Cristian Rojas, VR Henrik Sandberg, SSF IG, VR, EE Str Mikael Skoglund Rolf Stadler Ragnar Thobaben, VR Bo Wahlberg Douglas Wikström, SSF IG Ming Xiao, VR Per Zetterberg 8
ACCESS Initiates New Inter-disciplinary Collaborations Joint publications 2000-2005 Joint publications 2006-2011 Research results based on new collaborations Attraction of international rising stars to KTH 9
ACCESS Organization Scientific Advisory Board PR Kumar, Texas A&M, UIUC Marta Kwiatkowska, Oxford U Radia Pearlman, Intel Claire Tomlin, UC Berkeley ACCESS Board Gunnar Landgren, KTH, Chair Erik Aurell, KTH, Deputy Chair Mikael Höök, Ericsson Gunnar Karlsson, KTH Christer Nordström, SICS Pål Orten, ABB Tony Sandberg, Scania Bo Wahlberg, KTH Graduate School Steering Committee Bo Wahlberg, Chair Mikael Skoglund, Director Karl H. Johansson Magnus Jansson Stylianos Gisdakis, Student Haopeng Li, Student Executive Committee Management T A Leaders Management Karl Henrik, Johansson, Director Sonja Buchegger, Vice Director Mikael Skoglund, Director Graduate School Marie Androv, PR Officer Kristina Gustafsson, Admin Thematic Areas Sensin g & Actuation: Markus Flierl, T A Leader Transm ission & Radio: Joakim Jaldén, TA Leader Architecture & Concepts: Mikael Johansson, T A Leader Computatio n & Algorithms: Rolf Stadler, T A Leader 10
Instruments and Activities Thematic Area research program (long term) Collaborative seed projects (short term, 2 years) Application projects - Third party funded projects (EU, VINNOVA, SSF, etc.) - Industry projects Graduate school: PhD courses, summer schools Mobility program: incoming/outgoing faculty/postdocs Internal and external communication Scientific and industrial workshops Distinguished Lecture Series 11
ACCESS Added Value Many new external projects involving several ACCESS members Large increase in national and international collaborations SRA TNG, EIT ICT Labs Internationally: USA, China, Korea, etc. Industrial collaborations: Ericsson, ABB, Scania, Cisco, Microsoft, etc. Efforts to broaden and intensify (UIUC-KTH Inspire, Berkeley-KTH) Growing presence with international and national agencies 23 ongoing EU projects Several distinguished individual grants (ERC, KAW, AF, SSF, VR) 1/3 of total VR funding in Signals and Systems, including several individual and young faculty grants, joint collaborative projects, etc. 1/4 of national SSF ICT funding in 2010 call Several major industrial collaborative VINNOVA projects in intelligent transportation, smart energy, wireless process control, etc. 12
Graduated PhD s 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 J. Kron (Attentec) V. Vukadinovic (Disney Research) L. Bao (Ericsson) I. Mas Ivars (Ericsson) N. Björsell (Högskolan i Gävle) S. Yao N. Jalden (Ericsson) S. Bergman (Ericsson) J. Fu (Ericsson) M. Isaksson (Högskolan i Gävle) P. von Wrycza (Ericsson) I. Skog (KTH) M. Mowler (Ericsson) N. Wernersson (Ericsson) D. Wisell (Ericsson) A. Fouquier d'herouel (Inst. Systems Biology) F.Wuhib (KTH) I. Marsh (Univ. of Porto) G. Fanizza (SwissQuant) D. Hammarwall (Ericsson) M. Khormuji (KTH) M. Werner Y. Kuroiwa (Japan) J. Karlsson (Univ. Florida) P. Svedman (ZTE) P. G. Park (Berkeley) P. Soldati (Huawei) T. Kim (Princeton) C. Adam (J.P. Morgan) P. Sahlholm (Scania) D. Anisi (ABB) M. Berenthin Syberg (FLIR) K. Werner (Ericsson) A. Gunnar (SAAB) T. Gustavi (FOI) A. Gonzalez Prieto (Cisco Systems) E. Avventi M. Karasalo (FOI) J. Ardelius (SICS) E. Björnsson (KTH) S. Almer (ABB) N. Möller (Conemtech) X. Zhang (McKinsey) B. Johansson (Scania) Presently there are roughly 100 active ACCESS PhD students
Collaborations and Strategic Importance 15
On two flagship projects Stockholm Royal Seaport Real-time Fleet Management
Stockholm Royal Seaport F From a brown field area to a sustainable city district
Stockholm Royal Seaport F From a brown field area to a sustainable city district Goals CO 2 emissions <1.5 tons per person by 2020 (today 4.5) Fossil fuel-free by 2030
Smart Grid in the Stockholm Royal Seaport
Real-Time Fleet Management Global coordination of vehicle platoons for fuel-efficient goods transport Large-scale information, communication, and control infrastructure iqfleet
Air drag reduction [%] Air Drag Reduction in Platooning Truck 3 Truck 1 Truck 2 Relative distance in platoon [m] P Low T3 T2 Lead P High Truck 3 Truck 2 Truck 1 Wolf-Heinrich & Ahmed (1998), Bonnet & Fritz (2000), Scania CV AB (2011)
Truck Platooning Demos Rapport on vehicle platooning developed by KTH and Scania (Oct, 2011) PhD student Assad Alam on Discovery Channel (Jan, 2012) 22
ACCESS Linnaeus Center ACCESS was established from VR grant 2006 Developed into a leading European university research center in networked systems - 36 faculty, 20 postdocs, 100 PhD students - Basic funding from VR on 1.4 MEUR per year - Total research budget 2010 over 12 MEUR Significant scientific results and new programs Graduate school with >40 graduated PhD s Faculty renewal and mobility programs Extensive international and industrial collaborations External communication and dissemination 23