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Svante Gunnarsson

Professor


Background

Svante Gunnarsson received the M.Sc. degree in Applied Physics and Electrical engineering 1983, and the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control, 1988, both from Linköping University. He is currently Professor at the Division of Automatic Control.

Education

Svante Gunnarsson is currently involved in the following education activities:

  • Examiner and lecturer in TSRT22, Reglerteknik (Automatic Control), for the Industrial Engineering and Management and Energy, Environment and Management programs.
  • Examiner and lecturer in TSIU04, Industriella styrsystem, for the Engineering Electronics program.
  • Examiner and lecturer in TSIU06, Industriella styrsystem, for the Mechanical Engineering program.
  • Representative of Linköping University within the international network The CDIO Initiative for development of engineering education.

Research

His research interests include modeling, identification, control, and diagnosis of industrial robots. He is also Center Director for the Competence Center SEDDIT supported by Vinnova.

Other

Member of the Board of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (Institute of Technology) at Linköping University.

Member of the Board of the research organization Zenith within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Linköping University.

Publications

2025

Aldo André Díaz-Salazar, José Rafael Rebêlo Teles, José Gabriel Rebêlo Teles, Eduardo Dias Peixoto, Alexandre Costa Ferro Filho, Nigel Joseph Bandeira Dias, Svante Gunnarsson (2025) A framework for the teacching of autonomous mobile robots
Svante Gunnarsson, Helena Herbertsson, Anders Ekinge, Malin Wiger, Magdalena Smeds (2025) Reflecting on reflections - Leveraging student feedback for continuous program development

2024

Stefanie Antonia Zimmermann, Stig Moberg, Svante Gunnarsson, Martin Enqvist (2024) Using statistical linearization in experiment design for identification of robotic manipulators Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 150, Article 106008 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Svante Gunnarsson, Inger Klein (2024) Including Sustainable Development in Automatic Control Courses SEFI Journal of Engineering Education Advancement, Vol. 1, p. 5-13 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Svante Gunnarsson, Urban Forsberg, Daniel Axehill (2023) Reflections about reflections Proceedings of the 19th CDIO International Conference, p. 56-66 (Conference paper)
Stefanie Antonia Zimmermann, Martin Enqvist, Svante Gunnarsson, Stig Moberg, Mikael Norrlöf (2023) Experimental evaluation of a method for improving experiment design in robot identification 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), p. 11432-11438 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Svante Gunnarsson, Aldo André Diaz-Salazar (2023) A design-implement expericence within computer vision Proceeding of the 19th CDIO International Conference, p. 251-257 (Conference paper)

2022

Svante Gunnarsson, Maria Swartz (2022) On the connections between the cdio framework and challenge-based learning Proceedings of the 50th SEFI Annual Conference, p. 1217-1223 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Stefanie Antonia Zimmermann, Martin Enqvist, Svante Gunnarsson, Stig Moberg, Mikael Norrlöf (2022) Improving experiment design for frequency-domain identification of industrial robots IFAC-PapersOnLine, p. 475-480 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Johan Malmqvist, Ulrika Lundqvist, Anders Rosén, Kristina Edström, Rajnish Gupta, Helene Leong, Sin Moh Cheah, Jens Bennedsen, Ron Hugo, Aldert Kamp, Ola Leifler, Svante Gunnarsson, Janne Roslöf, Daniel Spooner (2022) The CDIO Syllabus 3.0 - An Updated Statement of Goals 18th CDIO International Conference PROCEEDINGS – FULL PAPERS, p. 18-36 (Conference paper)
Svante Gunnarsson, Anna Fahlgren, Per Fagrell (2022) Enhancing Interaction with External Stakeholders in Program Management Proceedings of the 18th International CDIO Conference, p. 61-71 (Conference paper)

2021

Svante Gunnarsson, Inger Klein (2021) Using the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in automatic control courses Proceedings of the 17th International CDIO Conference, p. 95-105 (Conference paper)
Svante Gunnarsson, Maria Swartz (2021) Applying the CDIO framework when developing the ECIU University Proceedings of the 17th International CDIO Conference, p. 106-115 (Conference paper)
Johan Blaus, Per Fagrell, Anna Fahlgren, Svante Gunnarsson, Anna Kiessling (2021) Structures, processes, and methods for collaboration with stakeholders on relevance assessment of higher education
Per Fagrell, Anna Fahlgren, Svante Gunnarsson (2021) Relevans i högre utbildning

2020

Per Fagrell, Anna Fahlgren, Svante Gunnarsson (2020) Curriculum development and quality work in higher education in Sweden: The external stakeholder perspective Journal of Praxis in Higher Education, Vol. 2, p. 28-45 (Article in journal)
Mikael Norrlöf, Svante Gunnarsson (2020) An ILC approach to feed-forward friction compensation Proceedings of the 21st IFAC World Congress, p. 1409-1414 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI

2019

Farnaz Adib Yaghmaie, Svante Gunnarsson (2019) A New Result on Robust Adaptive Dynamic Programming for Uncertain Partially Linear Systems 2019 IEEE 58TH CONFERENCE ON DECISION AND CONTROL (CDC), p. 7480-7485 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Farnaz Adib Yaghmaie, Svante Gunnarsson, Frank L. Lewis (2019) Output regulation of unknown linear systems using average cost reinforcement learning Automatica, Vol. 110, Article 108549 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Johan Malmqvist, Maria Knutsson Wedel, Ulrika Lundquist, Kristina Edström, Anders Roesén, Thomas Fruergaard Astrup, Martin Vigild, Peter Munkebo Hussman, Audun Grom, Rediar Lyng, Svante Gunnarsson, Helene Leong-Wee Kwee Huay, Aldert Kamp (2019) Towards CDIO Standards 3.0 The 15th International CDIO Conference Proceedings – Full Papers, p. 44-66 (Conference paper)

News

A person with a drone.

LiU gets new competence centre – close collaborations with industry

Vinnova is investing more than SEK 30 million in a new competence centre in autonomous systems and advanced mathematical methods at LiU. Climate change and global security are to be the focus of the research groups.

A two-armed robot is programmed by student.

Programming their future colleague

What can an engineering career involve? First-year master’s students of applied physics and electrical engineering are gaining experience through their first development project – programming the Yumi collaborative robot from ABB.

Students Henrik Lindgren and Viktor Uvesten outside Studenthuset.

Summer job success, despite incomplete project

They didn’t manage to complete the project as intended, but the summer job at Newton Nordic still exceeded their expectations. “Now I’m sure that the education I chose was exactly right for me”, says LiU student Viktor Uvesten.

Research

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About the Division

About the Department