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Lars Nielsen

Professor

Since 1992 he is professor of Vehicular Systems holding the Sten Gustafsson chair at Linköping University.

Lars Nielsen main research interests are in automotive modeling, control, and diagnosis.

Nielsen was born in Sweden in 1955. He received his M.Sc. in engineering physics in 1979 and his Ph.D. degree in automatic control in 1985, both from Lund University.
Since 1992 he is professor of Vehicular Systems holding the Sten Gustafsson chair at Linköping University.

Publications

Jian Zhou, Arvind Balachandran, Björn Olofsson, Lars Nielsen, Erik Frisk,  Homotopic Optimization for Autonomous Vehicle Maneuvering, 2024 35TH IEEE INTELLIGENT VEHICLES SYMPOSIUM, IEEE IV 2024, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, pp. 2561-2568, IEEE (2024)  https://doi.org/10.1109/IV55156.2024.10588609

Oskar Lind Jonsson, Arvind Balachandran, Jian Zhou, Björn Olofsson, Lars Nielsen,  Investigating Characteristics and Opportunities for Rear-Wheel Steering, Proceedings of AVEC’24 – Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Giampiero Mastinu, Francesco Braghin, Federico Cheli, Matteo Corno, Sergio M. Savaresi (eds.), Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, pp. 151-157 (2024)  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70392-8_22

Sogol Kharrazi, Lars Nielsen, Erik Frisk,  Generation of Mission-Based Driving Cycles Using Behavioral Models Parameterized for Different Driver Categories, SAE technical paper series (2023)  https://doi.org/10.4271/2023-01-5033

Lars Nielsen,  Force-Centric Perspectives on Autonomous Safety Maneuvers, IFAC PAPERSONLINE, ELSEVIER (2022)  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.10.253

Pavel Anistratov, Björn Olofsson, Lars Nielsen,  Analysis and design of recovery behaviour of autonomous-vehicle avoidance manoeuvres, Vehicle System Dynamics 60:2231-2254 (2022)  https://doi.org/10.1080/00423114.2021.1900577

News

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Expansion of Sweden’s largest research programme

The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), Sweden’s largest individual research programme, has been extended by three years and will receive a further research grant of nearly SEK 1.3 billion.

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NTU in Singapore gives extra power to WASP

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is donating SEK 50 million to Nanyang Technological University. The donation will provide financing for 25 young researchers from all over the world to spend one year in Singapore and one year in Sweden.

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WASP doctoral student with a focus on safety

The many sensors with which cars are now fitted can be used to create active safety systems. In his licentiate thesis, Victor Fors examines how a car behaves when it is at the very limit of what it can achieve when avoiding a collision.

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