Svante Gunnarsson

Professor

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.

Background

Svante Gunnarsson's research interests include modeling, identification, control, and diagnosis of industrial robots. The research activities are connected to the Vinnova Competence Center SEDDIT.

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.

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.

Research

Center Director for the Competence Center SEDDIT supported by Vinnova.

Svante Gunnarsson: Curriculum vitae

CV Svante Gunnarsson (PDF, 95,3 kB)

News

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.

LiU inspires engineering education in Brazil

Linköping University is one of several universities around the world working together to improve engineering education. Taking inspiration from LiU, several engineering programmes in Brazil are undergoing radical change.

Research

Iterative learning control based on sensor fusion

The aim of the research is to improve the accuracy of industrial robots by using Iterative Learning Control in based on estimates of signals obtained by sensor fusion.

LINK-SIC - Linköping Center for Sensor Informatics and Control

LINK-SIC is a Vinnova Competence Center for industry-academia cooperation in the general area of control systems and signal processing. The center's operational period was between 2017 and 2023.

WASP - Wallenberg Autonomy and Software Program

LiU is home to WASP – Sweden’s largest ever individual research program. The research is financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, and focusses on autonomous systems and software development.

WASP - Wallenberg Autonomy and Software Program

ELLIIT

ELLIIT is a network organization for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) research at Linköping, Lund, Halmstad and Blekinge. The objective is scientific excellence in combination with industrial relevance and impact.

ELLIIT