Karl Henrik Johansson,

Professor, Director
ACCESS Linnaeus Centre
School of Electrical Engineering
Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden

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Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors. Member of the Editorial Boards of  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IET Control Theory & Applications and International Journal of Automation and Control. Past Associate Editor of the IFAC Journal Automatica (2003-2006). Chair of IFAC Technical Committee on Networked Systems. Senior Member of IEEE. Member of IIASA Society and SIAM.

Research Interests

Networked and distributed control and estimation; Integrated control and communication; Hybrid and embedded control systems; Non-smooth and relay feedback systems; Applications in automotive, automation and communication systems

Short popular description of our research (in Swedish): Vad är nätverksbaserad reglerteknik?

News

• Plenary presentation on event-based control for wireless systems at NESCOC Symposium on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control, University of Stuttgart, 28 Sep, 2009
• Wallenberg Scholar, individual grant awarded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Jun 1, 2009
• Lectures on event-based control at the Dutch Summer school on Distributed Control and Estimation, June 2-5, 2009
• General Chair of CPSWEEK 2010 hosting the conferences CPC, HSCC, IPSN, LCTES, RTAS, Apr 12-16, Stockholm
• Special Section on of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics: “Control of Wireless Networks: Foundations, Networking, Applications”. Call for paper. Submission deadline 31 Oct, 2009.
• Invited presentation on Wireless control: opportunities and challenges at Automationsdagarna, Globen, Stockholm, 2009
• TPC co-chair for 1st IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems (NecSys'09), 24-26 September, 2009, Venice, Italy
• VINNOVA grants research project on Networked Embedded Control Systems, Apr 18, 2008. Press release (in Swedish). 
• Program Co-Chair for IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Washington DC, USA, Aug 23-26, 2008.
• Keynote presentation at 6th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization  in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Berlin, Germany, March 31-April 4, 2008
• Our research project RUNES featured in ScienceDaily (Mar14, 2008)
• Our research on wireless control for mining industry within the project SOCRADES featured in Process Nordic (Jan 1, 2008)
• 1st ACCESS Industrial Workshop, 13 March, 2008, KTH.
• Special Issue of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control on "Industrial Control over Wireless Networks"
• RUNES Minitutorial Session at ECC 2007 in Kos, Greece, July 2-5, 2007
• Plenary talk at 15th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Athens, Greece, June 27-29, 2007
• Control over wireless networks, Invited talk, CTS-HYCON Workshop, Université Paris Sorbonne, France, July 10-12, 2006
• Swedish Research Council (VR) approves Linné proposal ACCESS (Autonomic Complex Communication Networks, Signals, and Systems) over ten years,  2006-06-29
• Modeling and analysis of hybrid control systems, Tutorial Lecture, Modelling and Verifying Parallel Processes (MOVEP), Bordeaux, France, June 19-23 2006
• Control over wireless networks (Parts I and II), Plenary Lectures, 25th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Heeze, The Netherlands, March 13-15, 2006
• Ninth International Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2006), Santa Barbara, CA, 2006-03-29--31
• Utbrott på Lava, European Research Night, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 2005-09-23
• Senior Researcher Position awarded in Network Interconnected Sensing and Control by Swedish Research Council, 2005-09-19
• Third Swedish Workshop on Autonomous Robotics, Stockholm, 2005-09-01--02
• 1st HYCON PhD School on Hybrid Systems, Siena, 2005-07-19--22
• Individual Grant for the Advancement of Research Leaders, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (pressrelease, KTH News, ceremony, interview), 2004-12-15, 2005-04-11

Research Projects

• Wallenberg Scholar, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, 2010-2014
• VIKING (Vital Infrastructure, Networks, Information and Control Systems Management), STREP, European Commission, IST program, FP7, 2008-2011
• FeedNetBack (Feedback design for wireless networked systems), STREP, European Commission, IST program, FP7, 2008-2011
• Networked Embedded Control Systems, Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA), 2008-2010
• Wireless control, Swedish Research Council, 2008-2010
• Cooperative guard and search: flexible autonomous UGV systems, Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) and Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) 2007-2009
• SOCRADES (Service-oriented cross-layer infrastructure for distributed smart embedded devices), Integrated Project, European Commission, IST program, FP6, 2006-2009
• ACCESS (Autonomic complex communication networks, signals, and systems), Swedish Research Council, 2006-2016
• Senior Researcher Position in network interconnected sensing and control, Swedish Research Council, 2006-2011
• NEC (Networked embedded control systems), Individual Grant for the Advancement of Research Leaders, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, 2005-2010
• Vehicle control using preview information, Swedish Programme Council for Vehicle Research (Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems), and SCANIA, 2004-2009
• HYCON (Hybrid control: taming heterogeneity and complexity of networked embedded systems), Network of Excellence, European Commission, IST program, FP6, 2004-2008

Past Projects

• ARTIST2, Network of Excellence, European Commission, IST program, FP6, 2004-2008
• SRI (Towards a self-regulating Internet), Swedish Research Council, 2002-2007
• Network-aware control: flexible and robust control for uncertain distributed systems with complex dynamics, Swedish Research Council, 2002-2007
• RUNES (Reconfigurable ubiquitous networked embedded systems), Integrated Project, European Commission, IST program, FP6, 2004-2007
• EuroNGI (Design and engineering of the next generation Internet), Network of Excellence, European Commission, IST program, FP6, 2004-2007
• Integrated coding and control, Swedish Research Council, 2003-2005
• RECSYS (Real-time embedded control of mobile systems with distributed sensing), European Commission, IST program, FP5, 2002-2005
• Electric energy management in heavy vehicles, Swedish Programme Council for Vehicle Research (Programrådet för fordonsforskning) and SCANIA, 2002-2005

Research Group

• Dimos Dimarogonas, Postdoc (Ph.D. from National Technical University of Athens): Multi-robot systems
• Maben Rabi, Postdoc (Ph.D. from University of Maryland): Event-based control in networks
   
• Assad Alam, Ph.D. student: Vehicle to vehicle communication and control (co-supervisor TBD)
• Jose Araujo, Ph.D. student: Wireless sensor and actuator networks (co-supervisor Henrik Sandberg)
• Lei Bao, Ph.D. student: Integrated coding and control (main supervisor Mikael Skoglund)
• Piergiuseppe Di Marco, Ph.D. student: Wireless automation (co-supervisor Carlo Fischione)
• Erik Henriksson, Ph.D. student: Predictive control over wireless networks (co-supervisor Henrik Sandberg)
• Björn Johansson, Ph.D. student: Network-embedded control (main supervisor Mikael Johansson)
• Magnus Lindhé, Ph.D. student: Distributed vehicle coordination
• Pan Gun Park, Ph.D. student: Wireless networking and control (co-supervisor Carlo Fischione)
• Chithrupa Ramesh, Ph.D. student: Wireless communication for estimation and control (co-supervisor Henrik Sandberg)
• Per Sahlholm, Ph.D. student: Intelligent traffic systems and predictive control for heavy vehicles
   
• Valeria Ercoli, M.Sc. student, ABB (from University of L'Aquila): Scheduling wireless sensor and actuator networks
• Gabriela Fiori, M.Sc. student, ABB (from University of L'Aquila): Scheduling wireless sensor and actuator networks
• Fotios Katsilieris, M.Sc. student, EE (from University of Patras): Surveillance with autonomous unmanned ground vehicles
• Ann Lind, M.Sc. student, Maquet Critical Care: Kartläggning av testbarhet i mjukvaran för ventilator
• Davide Pacifico, M.Sc. student, Ericsson (from University of L'Aquila): The impact of mobility on the performance of high bit rate TCP services in LTE (co-supervisors Carlo Fischione and Håkan Hjalmarsson)
• Matteo Pacifico, M.Sc. student, Ericsson (from University of L'Aquila): The impact of mobility on the performance of high bit rate TCP services in LTE (co-supervisors Carlo Fischione and Håkan Hjalmarsson)
• Mitra Pourabdollah, M.Sc. student,  EE: Predictive outage compensation (co-supervisor Erik Henriksson and Henrik Sandberg)
• Andre Teixeira, M.Sc. student, EE (from University of Porto): Controllability and observability of networked systems (co-supervisor Henrik Sandberg)
• Pedro Teixeira, M.Sc. student, EE (from University of Porto): Multi-vehicle coordination and communication (co-supervisor Dimos Dimarogonas)
• Kristoffer Wänglund, M.Sc. student, Scania:  Road grade estimation using vehicle sensors and GPS data

Former Postdocs, Ph.D. students and M.Sc. students 

Please, contact me if you are interested in working on a thesis subject related to my interest, either towards a M.Sc. or a Ph.D. degree.

Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching

• Visiting Professor in PhD Course on Multisensorial Acquisition-Processing and Robotics Systems, Universidad de Alcala, Madrid, Apr 2007: Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3
• 1st HYCON PhD School on Hybrid Systems, Siena, Jul 2005
• Hybrid systems modeling and control in automotive applications (introduction and summary), Graduate Paris School on Control (Formation en Automatique à Paris), Apr 2005
• 2E1200 Automatic Control, Basic Course, Fall 2002 (lp 1)
• 2E1242 Automatic Control, Project Course, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006 (lp 4)
• EL2450 Hybrid and Embedded Control Systems, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2009 (lp 3)
• 2E1262 Nonlinear Control, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Fall 2003 (lp 2)
• 2E1700 Electro Project, Spring 2001 (lp 3-4)
• Study Group in Network and Control, Fall 2002-Spring 2003
• Study Group in Information and Control Theory, Fall 2001-Spring 2002
• Study Group in Systems and Control Theory, Spring 2001
• EECS291E Hybrid Systems, UC Berkeley, Spring 2000
• FRT075 Nonlinear and Servo Systems, Lund University, Spring 1998 (lp 3)

Work Mailing Address
ACCESS Linnaeus Centre
School of Electrical Engineering
Royal Institute of Technology
SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

Work Electronic Address
kallej@ee.kth.se
http://www.ee.kth.se/~kallej
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Work Visiting Address
Office A:607, 6th floor
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