Karl Henrik Johansson,

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

| Publications | Bio | CV (short, longer)| Teaching | Projects |

Member of the Editorial Boards of  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and IET Control Theory & Applications. Past Associate Editor of the IFAC Journal Automatica (2003-2006). Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Networked Systems. Past member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors (2009). 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

• General Chair of CPSWEEK 2010 hosting the conferences CPC, HSCC, IPSN, LCTES, RTAS, Apr 12-16, Stockholm
• Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Special Issue of on Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks. Call for papers. Submission deadline: Apr 2, 2010
• IEEE MASS 2009 Best Paper Award for A Generalized Markov Model for Effective Analysis of Slotted IEEE 802.15.4, by Pangun Park, Piergiuseppe Di Marco, Pablo Soldati, Carlo Fischione and Karl Henrik Johansson
• Piergiuseppe Di Marco receives the "Confindustria S.I. - AICA Award 2009" for his MSc theses
• Wallenberg Scholar, individual grant awarded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Jun 1, 2009. Interview, Nov 25, 2009.
• 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
• Lectures on event-based control at the Dutch Summer school on Distributed Control and Estimation, June 2-5, 2009
• Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics: Special Section on “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

• Yassine Ariba, Postdoc (Ph.D. from LAAS-CNRS): Networked control
• Lei Bao, Postdoc (Ph.D. from KTH): Integrated coding and control (joint with Mikael Skoglund)
• Corentin Briat, Postdoc (Ph.D. from U Grenoble): Congestion control (joint with Ulf Jönsson and ACCESS)
• Phoebus Chen, Postdoc (Ph.D. from UC Berkeley): Networked and secure control systems
• Milos Stankovic, Postdoc (Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Multi-agent control

• 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)
• 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)
• 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
• Andre Teixeira, Ph.D. student: Secure control systems (co-supervisor Henrik Sandberg)
   
• 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
• Ann Lind, M.Sc. student, Maquet Critical Care: Kartläggning av testbarhet i mjukvaran för ventilator

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
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Work Visiting Address
Office A:607, 6th floor
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