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Workshop on real-time industrial wireless at CPSweek 2011 Together with Kris Pister and Chenyang Lu, we are organizing a workshop on real-time industrial wireless at this year's CPSweek. We have an exciting program combining industrial experts that have been influential in the application and standardization of low-power industrial wireless with strong acadmic researchers from a wide range of disciplines, including wireless communication, real-time systems and control. For more information, please see the workshop home page http://www.ee.kth.se/~mikaelj/realwin2011 |
Course on distributed optimization at UC Berkeley During my sabbatical at UC Berkeley, I will offer a graduate course on distributed optimization together with Laurent El Ghaoui, John Duchi, Duscan Stipanovic and Claire Tomlin. We will cover an ambitious set of topics, including advanced convex analysis and first-order methods, fixed-point iterations, asynchronous computations, decomposition techniques, optimization over graphs, and non-cooperative optimization. |
PhD thesis of Anders Gunnar On March 1, 2011 Anders Gunnar will defend his PhD thesis "Aspects of Proactive Traffic Engineering in IP Networks". Faculty opponent is Prof. Olivier Bonaventure, Catholic University of Louvain, and the grading committee consists of Prof. Rolf Stadler, KTH, Prof. Di Yuan, LiU, and Dr Åke Arvidsson, Ericsson Research |
Intensive course on distributed optimization at KTH During the last couple of years, applied optimization has had a tremendous impact on the development of algorithms for coordination and resource sharing in networks and systems. Examples include multi-robot coordination, distributed estimation, radio resource management in wireless systems, and traffic engineering in data networks. Very quickly, optimization theory has moved from the periphery to the core of many engineering disciplines: classical optimization techniques are being rediscovered and enhanced, and completely new optimization algorithms, tailored to the constraints of networked systems, are being developed. This intensive course attempts to present some of the key techniques for distributed optimization in such systems in a coherent and comprehensible manner. Lecturers: - Prof. Stephen Boyd, Stanford University - Prof. Mikael Johansson, KTH - Dr. Bo Yang, KTH Course home page: http://www.ee.kth.se/~mikaelj/dopt |
PhD thesis of Pablo Soldati On February 2, Pablo Soldati will defend his PhD thesis " On Cross-Layer Design and Resource Scheduling in Wireless Networks". Faculty opponent is Prof. P.R. Kumar from UIUC, and the grading commitee consists of Prof. Kostantin Avrachenkov, INRIA, Dr. Bozidar Radunovic, Microsoft Research and Prof. Mats Bengtsson, KTH. |
New collaborative project with KAIST Together with the communication networks and communication theory groups at KTH, we have been awarded a new project on "Stochastic network optimization" with Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). The project is funded by STINT and KOSEF, and allows us to build up stronger cooperations with professors Yung Yi, Youngchul Sung and Sue Moon at KAIST. |
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Special section We are coordinating a special section on the topic of "Control over wireless networks: foundations, networking and applications" in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. The paper deadline is October 31, 2009, and the complete call for papers can be found here. |
WSN programming short course In conjunction with the 3rd WIDE school on Networked Control Systems" in Siena, Italy, July 7-9, 2009, we will offer a one-day version of EL3600: Wireless sensor network programming - an introduction. Researchers from SICS and KTH will lecture on principles and programming primitives in the Contiki operating system, and guide you through hands-on exercises on real hardware, focusing on how to sample sensors and download data via a multihop wireless sensor network. Check out the projects that the KTH students accomplished after a similar course. |
Learning embedded control using Lego NXT During their one-week project course, the first-year E and ME students meet in a "LEGO Segway Challenge". Check out the tutorial on embedded control that we have prepared and let us know what you think! The contest will be held on April 24, 2009 (more info later...) |
PhD thesis of Bjorn Johansson On January 31, Bjorn Johansson successfully defended his PhD thesis "On distributed optimization in networked systems". Faculty opponent was Prof. Asuman Ozdaglar from MIT, and the grading committee consisted of Prof. Michael Patriksson, Chalmers, Prof. Anders Rantzer, Lund University and Dr. Lin Xiao from Microsoft Research. |
The 3rd WIDE Summer School on Networked Control Systems
will take place in Siena, Italy, on July 7-9, 2009. The school gathers leading researchers to lecture on a wide range of topics covering the main concepts of networked control systems, including technological challenges and industrial applications, modeling and simulation, fundamental limitations of control over unreliable and capacity-limited channels, techniques for analysis and control synthesis, event-triggered and self-triggered control, estimation and consensus, cooperative and decentralized control, distributed optimization and networked model-predictive control. The full program and further information can be found at http://ist-wide.dii.unisi.it/school09 | EuroNF Workshop on Wireless and Mobility
The workshop aims at bringing together EuroNF researchers in lively discussions about recent research and future trends in wireless technology and mobility in the network of the future. The first half-day of the workshop consists of the EuroNF-ACCESS special seminar on wireless and mobility with invited speakers Dr. Matthias Grossglauser, EPFL/Nokia Research, Dr. Alexandre Proutiere, Mircosoft Research and Dr. Adam Dunkels from SICS/IPSO Alliance. More info on the workshop home page Workshop date: Oct 23-24, 2008 Home page: EuroNFWorkshop |
New intensive course: wireless sensor networking programming - an introduction
Within the ACCESS graduate school, we will be offering a new intensive course in sensor networking programming using the Contiki operating system. Instructors are Adam Dunkels and Fredrik Österlind from SICS. First meeting is October 9. More info can be foud on the course home page |
| International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control: special issue on "Industrial Control over Wireless Networks" There is an increasing interest to push the performance envelope of wireless industrial control, enabling feedback control of increasingly critical processes. This desire poses serious research challenges with respect to the strict requirements on availability, robustness, reliability and performance. This Special Issue is intended to present a snapshot of some recent achievements in control and communication for enabling industrial control over wireless networks. The issue will cover critical aspects of control, communication and software design and seeks for original contributions in wireless networked embedded control. Guest Editors: M. di Benedetto, F. Santucci, K.-H. Johansson and M. Johansson Submission deadline: 2008-03-30 Home page at Wiley | |
| Wireless Automation Track at IEEE CASE, Washington D.C. Aug 23-26, 2008
In recent years, the desire for connectivity and physical mobility has caused an exponential growth in wireless systems. Wireless techniques are now starting to become widely available for process automation, and the industrial interest in wireless solutions for data collection, monitoring, and control is growing rapidly. Standardization efforts on industrial wireless, such as Wireless HART and ISA SP-100, are underway and commodity hardware for embedded wireless is dropping in price. However, there are still open issues about data security, reliability and performance of the wireless control loop that may limit the rate of adoption. This should make Wireless Automation an interesting research topic for many years to come, why for this IEEE CASE a new track has been created. Co-chairs: A. Isaksson(ABB) and M. Johansson(KTH) Conference Date: 2008-08-26 Home page: www.ieee-case.org | |
| WISA workshop: "Standards and research challenges for industrial wireless control"
WISA develops wireless sensor and actuator networking technologies for measurement and control. The project takes a cross-layer perspective, and aims at developing networking protocols, sensor fusion techniques and control algorithms that work in harmony, enabling a wide deployment of wireless technologies in automation and monitoring. Speakers: Mats Andersson(Connect Blue), Riku Jäntti(TKK), Thomas Lennvall(ABB), ... |