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

Mechanical Engineering is a discipline of engineering sciences based on classical mechanics. In a broader sense, it covers disciplines from product development and design engineering to construction materials and computational 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

2024

Karl Kindström Andersson, Kent E. Andersson (2024) Development of Scenarios as Problem-Space Descriptions in Aerospace Conceptual Design AEROSPACE, Vol. 11, Article 565 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Alessandro Dell’Amico (2024) Design and Implementation of a Hardware-in-the-Loop Air Load Simulation System for Testing Aerospace Actuators ACTUATORS, Vol. 13, Article 238 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Thomas Heeger, Samuel Kärnell, Liselott Ericson (2024) Challenges for multi-quadrant hydraulic piston machines Energy Conversion and Management: X, Vol. 22, Article 100578 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Marcos Paulo Nostrani, Dimitri Oliveira e Silva, Rodrigo Simoes Lopes Junior, Vinicius Vigolo, Petter Krus, Victor Juliano De Negri (2023) AN ANALYSIS OF A DIGITAL ELECTRO HYDROSTATIC ACTUATOR FOR APPLICATION IN AIRCRAFT FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS PROCEEDINGS OF ASME/BATH 2023 SYMPOSIUM ON FLUID POWER AND MOTION CONTROL, FPMC2023 (Conference paper)
Jorge Lovaco (2023) Traceable System of Systems Explorations Using RCE Workflows
Robert Braun, Robert Hällqvist, Dag Fritzson (2023) Transmission line modeling co-simulation with distributed delay-size control using steady-state identification Engineering with Computers (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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News

Campus de Santo André da UFABC, Brazil.

IDEAS 2024

IDEAS 2024 takes place in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil from 24-27 November 2024. The IDEAS 2024 conference is part of a longstanding collaboration between Linköping University in Sweden and Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC) in Brazil.

Aeronautical students with small aircraft assembled at LiU.

The engine caught fire - but the students won the prize

Despite a number of setbacks, LiU master's students won a title in the big SAE Aero Design aviation competition in Brazil. LiU is now investing in recurring student projects aimed at competing with small, remote-controlled aircraft.

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.

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