Fluid and Mechatronic Systems (FLUMES)

The Division of Fluid and Mechatronic Systems is part of the Department of Management and Engineering and carries out research and education in fluid power systems and aeronautics.

Education and teaching

Fluid power systems and aircraft design

We offer courses in fluid power systems and aircraft design at both basic and advanced levels. We are the only university in Sweden that gives advanced courses in fluid power systems.
 

We give courses in fluid power systems and aircraft design at both basic and advanced levels to around 300 engineering students each year.

Our undergraduate courses are taken mainly by students in mechanical engineering. We provide the most comprehensive education in fluid power systems, with the possibility of specialisation at the advanced level.

It is also possible to carry out a thesis project within the subjects mechatronics, fluid power systems and aircraft design, either in a company or within our laboratory.

We are the only university in Sweden that gives advanced courses in fluid power systems.

Doctoral studies in Mechanical Engineering. Patrik Härnman, technician, and Magnus Kahlin, doctoral student.

Doctoral studies in Mechanical Engineering

A classic engineering field joining technology, physics, materials science and mathematics. Our university is conducting advanced research in areas such as fluid and mechatronic systems, machine design, and applied thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.

Research

We have the largest university laboratory for fluid power systems in Sweden. Key words for our research are efficiency and system dynamics.

The characteristics of our research projects are a close connection between the fluid and mechatronic systems, propulsion systems, power transmission, actuator system, sensors and control systems. Our research philosophy is a strong combination of theory and experimental research.

We carry out research in close cooperation with industry and other research groups. Every fourth year we organise the Scandinavian Conference in Fluid Power (SICFP), one of the largest fluid power conferences in Europe.

We conduct research within three main fields

Latest publications

2023

Samuel Kärnell, Liselott Ericson (2023) Control of an Asymmetric Cylinder With Two Individually Controlled Pump/Motors Proceedings of the ASME/BATH 2023Symposium on Fluid Power and Motion Control Continue to DOI
Artur Tozzi de Cantuaria Gama, Kim Heybroek, Liselott Ericson (2023) An Analysis of a Multi-Pump System for Actuator Operation in Electric Mobile Machinery ASME/BATH 2023 Symposium on Fluid Power and Motion Control - FPMC2023 Continue to DOI
Karl Kindström Andersson (2023) Conversation history from Scenario Generation with OpenAI GPT-4
Karl Kindström Andersson (2023) CHAMP Operational Scenario generated from OpenAI GPT-4
Karl Kindström Andersson (2023) Conversation history from scenario ontology generation with OpenAI GPT-4

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Two scientists in the hydraulic lab.

Research is needed when electricity replaces diesel

Did you think that all it takes is changing an excavator’s diesel engine for an electric one? Well, it’s not that simple. The hydraulics can actually be adapted to the many advantages of the electric engine.

The Thulin gold medal for Petter Krus

"In collaboration with other universities, Petter Krus creates good conditions for Sweden to be at the forefront of research in the aeronautical field. Petter Krus is thereby particularly deserving of the Thulin gold medal.”

Campus de Santo André da UFABC, Brazil.

IDEAS 2022: Breaking Boundaries in the New World

IDEAS 2022 takes place from November 28 - 30, 2022 at UFABC campus in Santo André, Brazil. IDEAS 2022 is part of a longstanding collaboration between Linköping University in Sweden and Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC) in Brazil.

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