LINK-SIC Workshop 2023

The final version of LINK-SIC Annual Workshop took place 14 November at Campus Valla at Linköping University. During the workshop we had the opportunity to summarize the efforts, experiences and outcomes of the work performed within the context of LINK-SIC as a competence center.

Here you will find the program, posters, presentations, a summary and pictures.

Program:

9.30 – 9.45 Coffee

9.45 – 10.30 Welcome. Impact of LINK-SIC. Svante Gunnarsson, LiU

10.30 – 11.50 Life as LINK-SIC PhD student and beyond:
- Zoran Sjanic, Saab Aeronautics
- Oskar Leufven, Scania
- Johanna Wallén Axehill, Saab Aeronautics
- Fredrik Ljungberg, ABB

11.50 – 12.00 Poster teaser

12.00 – 14.00 Lunch and poster session

14.00 – 14.30 Chairmen’s perspective:
- Torgny Brogårdh, previously ABB
- Gunnar Holmberg, SAAB Aeronautics

14.30 – 15.10 Ongoing PhD projects:
- Stefanie Zimmermann, LiU
- Max Johansson, LiU

15.10 – 15.40 Coffee

15.40 – 16.00 Industry perspectives:
- Shiva Sander-Tavallaey, ABB
- Jonas Holmborn, Scania

16.00 – 16.15 Summary and closing

19.00 Dinner

Presentations:

Program & Summary

Sjanic: Zoran’s time as PhD in Link-SIC and beyond

Leufven: Life as LINK-SIC PhD Student and beyond

Wallén Axehill: Life as LINK SIC PhD student and beyond - Johanna’s view

Ljungberg: Life as LINK SIC PhD student and beyond

Brogårdh: Chairman's perspective

Holmberg: LINK-SIC: Linköping Center for Sensor Informativs and Control - Chair's perspective

Johansson: ECCV Platform Thermal Management Systems

Holmborn: Scania <-> LINK-SIC

Posters:

Barbosa: Power consumption identification for time and energy trade-off in cranes

Holmbom: ECCV Control Benchmark for Sustainable Transport

Forsling: Track Fusion Design in Decentralized Target Tracking

Johansson & Lundberg: System identification of a Skeldar helicopter

Summary

On November 14, LINK-SIC concluded the efforts, experiences and outcomes of the work performed within the context of LINK-SIC as a competence center through the arrangement of the final version of its annual workshop. The ongoing phase of LINK-SIC, which is now coming to an end, started in 2017, but LINK-SIC has a longer history and dates back to 2007.

Therefore, the wider purpose of this final workshop was to summarize the 16 years of LINK-SIC, where the first ten years had the format of an Industry Excellence Center and the last six years as a Competence Center, both supported by Vinnova.

The program contained presentations by current as well as former PhD students, reflections by the chairpersons of the center and feedback from some of the participating companies. The overall conclusion was that LINK-SIC has been very successful in terms of both PhD and Licentiate degrees, publications of high scientific quality, and results of great industrial relevance and value for the participating companies.

Gunnar Holmberg, Saab Aeronautics: ”LINK-SIC has been a great center to perform long-term and close collaboration between industry and academia."

Shiva Sander-Tavallaey, ABB: “With its interdisciplinary approach, LINK-SIC quickly managed to the gap between theory and practice, linking industry and academia in a unique way.”

The strategies of LINK-SIC facilitating a long-term, mutual collaboration between academia and industry have also laid a foundation for future collaborations, exemplified, and realized through the formation of a new competence center hosted by LiU, SEDDIT, financed by Vinnova, which will start its journey 1 January 2024.