Automatic Control (RT)

Automatic control is the art of making technical systems behave as we want.

  Photo credit David BrohedeThe activities within the division include a broad spectrum of problems in sensor fusion, system identification, robotics and autonomous systems, optimization for control applications and complex networks, and they aim at a good and productive balance between theoretical developments and industrial applications.

Sensor fusion deals with how to combine information from different sensors in the best way, and system identification concerns data driven modelling of dynamical systems. Within robotics and autonomous systems the focus is on planning and controlling the position and orientation of a system with a minimum of manual interaction. The activities within optimization include algorithm development for model predictive control, and the complex networks area deals with different types of interactions in dynamic networks.

Examples of application areas of industrial importance are modelling and control of industrial robots, sensor fusion and decision support in cars, ships and aerial vehicles, and planning and control of autonomous vehicles.

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Courses given by the Division of Automatic Control

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Research

Optimization

Optimization for Control

The research in optimization for control is focused on optimization modeling, robust control, model predictive control, and applications.

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

This research area encompasses a wide range of applications from industrial robots and automobiles to trucks and airborne vehicles.

Computer vision

WASP at Department of Electrical Engineering (ISY)

WASP Computer Vision Laboratory, WASP Sensor fusion, WASP Vehicular Systems and WASP Optimization for Learning and Autonomy are located at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ISY) on Campus Valla in Linköping.

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System Identification

System identification deals with building a mathematical model of the input-output behavior of a dynamical system from measurements of its input and output signals.

Data-based Ship Modeling for Marine Automation

How can sensor data and data-based modeling be used to make cargo ships more efficient, with the long-term goal to develop fully autonomous ships? This is the topic in this industry-oriented research project.

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.

Complex Networks Dynamics and Control

Complex networked systems appear in a broad range of Engineering, Social and Biological applications. Our research aims at developing suitable dynamical models and distributed control methods.

Planering och optimeringsbaserad reglering för autonoma system

Planning and optimization-based control for autonomous systems

A central function of an autonomous system is to enable it to make use of its control signals. In our research, mathematical models are used by the system to predict the value and feasibility of possible choices of control signals.

News

ELLIIT Joint Autonomous Systems Lab in Linköping and Lund showcasing autonomous robot.

The University Board on Study Visit to Visionen

In December 2023, the university board visited the Department of Electrical Engineering (ISY). In the research arena Visionen, examples were presented highlighting Linköping University's crucial role in technological and societal development.

Portrait picture of Anastasia Bizyaeva, postdoc.

Ambitious guest researcher program enhances the interdisciplinary dialogue

"The focus period was a unique and valuable experience. I would absolutely come back for another focus period, and I recommend the opportunity to other researchers who may be considering it in the future", says Anastasia Bizyaeva, visiting scholar.

Audience members at a lecture during the ELLIIT Symposium 2023.

Leading researchers gathered for symposium on Network Dynamics and Control

In the autumn of 2023 Linköping University hosts the ELLIIT Focus Period. An ambitious guest researcher program aimed at stimulating interaction among researchers and to favor cross-talk within the research field.

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.

Successful premiere for ISY's PhD Workshop

For the first time the Department of Electrical Engineering organized an all-day conference dedicated solely to the department's PhD-students. Afterwards the director of PhD studies, Mark Vesterbacka, was more than satisfied when he summed up the day

Kamiar’s thesis defence – online!

When it was time for Kamiar Radnosrati to defend his thesis, there was a risk that everything would be postponed because of the new coronavirus. But instead he got to write history at the Department of Electrical Engineering.

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