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Annual Report 2011 Intelligent Sensor Systems

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Content Intelligent Sensor Systems, ISS Introduction to ISS

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Research groups

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• Biomedical Engineering group

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• Computational Perception Laboratory

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• Intelligent Systems group

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• Robotics group

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• Wireless Communication group

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Research projects

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Research projects starting in 2012

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Intelligent Sensor Systems

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Maria Lindén, Associate Professor and Director of Intelligent Sensor Systems School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University. Email: [email protected] Phone: +46-21 10 15 48 www.iss.mdh.se

Intelligent Sensor Systems sense their environment, interpret the signals, communicate with their surround­ ings and have the ability to learn and improve their per­ formance. The ”intelligent sensor” may make decisions either autonomously or in collaboration with other sensors or humans. Vision The vision of Intelligent Sensor Systems, ISS, is to be a vital, highly requested and well renowned research establishment, providing competence and applicable results of high value for society. Excellence in • Artificial intelligence • Biomedical engineering • Robotics • Wireless communication Solution Areas include • Healthcare • Industry A research profile that • has approximately 35 persons directly involved in research, half of them have a PhD degree and the other half are PhD students. • is one of two profiles in the research-intensive direc­ tion Embedded Systems at Mälardalen University. • conducts cutting edge research in artificial intelli­ gence, biomedical engineering, robotics and wireless communication. • has research that is mainly motivated by needs from industry and surrounding society.

• focuses on new solutions in mobile, intelligent sensor systems leading to increased safety and effectiveness within industry, healthcare and sports medicine. • has a comprehensive collaboration with companies, municipalities and county councils. Almost all projects and activities include external partners. • has identified a possibility to expand into a new focus area of research at Mälardalen University that com­ bines research from sensor technology with health and welfare.

Results of research: • A light-weight, wireless ECG-surveillance system for continuous registration. • Development of algorithms for automatic hand over and roaming of Bluetooth and other RF devices. • A novel way to measure CO2 in expired air through a resonant sensor. • Development of a new principle to estimate the lactate level through correlation to the CO2-level. • Self improving sensor signal classification algorithms. • Decision support systems able to determine the con­ fidence of sensor signal classification, and requesting help if necessary. • Methods and techniques for systems gaining experi­ ence and sharing experience both between sensors, systems and humans. • Methods for wireless network capacity estimation and prediction • Security architecture for communication in industrial sensor networks, building on existing standard.

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Research groups Biomedical Engineering group

Leader: Associate professor Maria Lindén, [email protected], +46 21 101548

The research within the Medical Engineering group focuses on reliable non-invasive physiological data acquisition and processing, and reliable wireless sensor data distribution. The vision is to improve life quality for everyone that needs health. Members: Anna Åkerberg, Mia Folke, Tommy Henriks­ son (Gunnarsson), Maria Lindén, Christer Gerdtman, Magnus Otterskog, Nikola Petrovic, Marcus Bergblomma, Martin Ekström, Jimmie Hagblad.

Computational Perception Laboratory

Members: Peter Funk, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Ning Xiong, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Shahina Begum, Bo von Schéele, Tomas Olsson, Taha Kahn.

Robotics group

Leader: Professor Lars Asplund, [email protected], +46 21 107036

Focusing on real-time 3D vision, and human-robot interaction. Including methods and systems for robotics perception. Members: Fredrik Ekstrand, Lars Asplund, Jörgen Lidholm, Mikael Ekström, Carl Ahlberg, Giacomo Spampinato.

Wireless Communication group Leader: Senior lecturer Baran Çürüklü, [email protected], +46 21 103171

Activities range from defining and testing hypotheses on mechanisms behind perception to design of artifacts based on these hypotheses, such as robots. Members: Baran Çürüklü, Batu Akan, Johan Hägg.

Intelligent Systems group

Leader: Professor Peter Funk, [email protected], +46 21 103153

Focusing on methods and techniques for intelligent systems and artificial intelligence enabling adaptation, learning, experience reuse, and experience sharing.

Leader: Professor Mats Björkman, [email protected], +46 21 107037

Focusing on research in wireless sensor networks; communication energy optimization, safe and secure wireless industrial automation, reliable wireless communication in harsh environments and content distribution network optimization. Members: Johan Åkerberg, Henrik Abrahamsson, Mats Björkman, Andreas Johnsson, Mikael Ekström, Marcus Bergblomma, Martin Ekström, Elisabeth Uhlemann, Shahid Raza, Mudassar Aslam, Svetlana Girs, Kan Yu, Apala Ray.

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Research projects at ISS EUROWEB - European Resaerch and Education Collaboration with Western Balkans Leader: Sasikumar Punnekkat Members: Radu Dobrin, Damir Isovic Research Group: Dependability Start: 2011-09-01 End: 2014-09-01 Partners: Mälardalen University, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Universita degli Studi dell’Aquila, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Universität Paderborn, Germany, University of Westminster, United Kingdom, POLITEHNICA University Bucharest, Romania, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hertze­ govina, University of Mostar, Bosnia and Hertzegovina, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Hertzegovina, Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Former Yogoslav Republic of Macedonia, University of Niš, Serbia, Uni­ versity of Belgrade, University Mediterranean Podgorica, Montenegro, University of Elbasan ”Aleksander Xhuvani”, Albania Funding: EU- Erasmus Mundus Action 2 The EUROWEB project, funded by the European com­ mission, aims to establish a European-western Balkans academic mobility Network, for achieving excellence in research and education in a global context, by identifying key themes for cooperation, leveraging on the comple­ mentary competencies and providing synergies essen­ tial for the progress and mutual benefit of the targeted western Balkan countries as well as the European Union. The consortium comprises of 17 prominent educational institutions (10 from Europe and 7 from Western Balkans) and is coordinated by Malardalen University, Sweden.

Gauss – Guaranteed automation communication under severe interference Leader: Mats Björkman Members: Mats Björkman, Maria Lindén, Svetlana Girs, Kan Yu, Marcus Bergblomma, Martin Ekström, Mikael Ekström, Johan Åkerberg, Mikael Gidlund Research Group: Wireless Communication Start: 2009-01-01 End: 2012-12-31 Partners: VG Power, DELTA Funding: The Knowledge Foundation (KKS) Overview: The project investigates how safety in wire­ less communication can be guaranteed in spite of electro­magnetic interference. In collaboration with the companies, we will measure electromagnetic inter­ ference in harsh environments, including water power plants. The measurement results are used to model the environments so that communication perform­ ance can be predicted and calculated in advance.

Giraff+ Combining social interaction and long term monitoring for promoting independent living Leader: Maria Lindén Research Group: Biomedical Engineering Start: 2011 End: 2014 Partners: Giraff AB, Örebro University Funding: EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) Overview: Giraff + is combining social interaction and long term monitoring for promoting independent living. Early detection and adaptive support to changing indi­ vidual needs related to ageing is an important challenge in today society. The Giraff+ project aims at developing a system that addresses such a challenge. The system consists of a network of home sensors that measure e.g. blood pressure or temperature, or detect e.g. whether somebody occupies a chair, falls down or moves inside a room. The data from these sensors are interpreted by an intelligent system in terms of activities, e.g. the person is going to bed, and health and wellbeing, e.g. the person is tired or well rested. These activities can then trigger alarms or reminders to the person or his/her caregivers, or be analysed over time by a health professional. The system should automatically adapt to perform specific services such as checking the person’s sleeping patterns. There is also a telepresence robot, the Giraff, which can be moved around in the home by somebody connected to it over internet, e.g. a caregiver. The Giraff is effec­ tively a mobile communication platform, equipped with video camera and display, and microphone and speakers, and it helps the user to maintain his/her social contacts. Particular emphasis is put on user evaluation outside the laboratories. The Giraff+ system will be installed and evaluated in at least 15 homes of elderly people distrib­ uted in three European countries (Sweden, Italy and Spain). These evaluations will drive the development of the system. The concept of “useworthiness” will be central in order to assure that the Giraff+ system provides services that are easy and worth using. In addition, by using existing and affordable components (besides the Giraff robot also sensors from two participating com­ panies: Tunstall and IntelliCare) we strive to achieve a system that is affordable and close to commercialization.

IDEAS - Innovation and Design for Euro-Asian Scholars Leader: Damir Isovic Members: Damir Isovic, Radu Dobrin, Sasikumar Punnekkat, Annika Björklund Research group: Model-Based Engineering of Embedded Systems Start: 2011-07-15 End: 2015-07-15

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Partners: Mälardalen University Sweden, Darmstadt University Of Applied Sciences Germany, Eindhoven Uni­ versity Of Technology The Netherlands, Indian Institute Of Technology Bombay, Maharashtra, Lahore University Of Management Sciences Pakistan, Royal University Of Buthan Bhutan, Tribhuvan University Nepal, Universidad Politecnica De Madrid Spain, Universidad Politecnica De Valencia Spain, University Court Of The University Of Abertay United Kingdom, University Of Tartu Estonia, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Funding: Erasmus Mundus Action 2 Overview: The overall objective of IDEAS project is to create a partnership in research and education that will strengthen the ties between Europe and Asia, with a special focus on innovation and product realization in a global context. The project will provide students with an excellence in scientific and technological domains, based on both theoretical foundations and practical experi­ ence with an international perspective, and prepare them to participate in building and managing complex and large systems and infrastructures. The project will establish a mobility network between Europe and Asia, to exchange excellence in research and education in several relevant disciplines, such as innovation, design, engineering and environmental science. It will expand the experience of European partners in student and staff exchange to the partner institution in Asia, and thus dis­ seminate good practices with regard to organization and mobility. Furthermore, IDEAS will facilitate the mobility of students and academic staff through a scholarships scheme, curriculum development of the individuals, the transfer of know-how, and the exchange of best prac­ tices. Although the funding of this specific Lot is only for mobility from Asia to EU, we will strive to implement the mobility in both directions. The emphasis will be placed on capacity building aspects, in particular the ability of the partner institutions to handle international mobil­ ity and large international cooperation projects. Finally, the project will also provide the long-lasting value to the individuals involved, who will benefit from a study/ research period abroad. As the consortium offers a wide range of thematic fields, any individual mobility demand will find the right educational or research environment at the host university. This will contribute to develop a pool from well qualified, open-minded and internation­ ally experienced young women/men as future leaders.

IMod - Intelligent Concentration Monitoring and Warning System for Professional Drivers Leader: Shahina Begum Members: Shahina Begum, Maria Lindén, Peter Funk, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed Research Group: Intelligent Systems Start: 2011-08-31 End: 2013-08-30 Partners: Volvo Construction Equipment AB Funding: The Knowledge Foundation (KKS)

Overview: The consequences of tiredness, drowsiness, stress and lack of concentration cause by a variety of different factors such as illness, sleep depletion, drugs and alcohol is a serious problem in traffic and when operating industrial equipment. The aim of the project is to develop an intelligent system that can monitor and manage drivers’ level of inattention depending on psychological and behavioral conditions/status using different physiological sensor signals. The system will be developed combining different types of intelligent and signal processing techniques. The research will provide the basis for building a prototype system able to provide continuous monitoring of the parameters while driving and generate suitable information/alarm to alert the driver about their driving performance.

InMaint - Intelligent Monitoring and Maintenance in Production Industry Leader: Peter Funk Members: Peter Funk, Ning Xiong. External: Marcus Bengtsson, Mats Jackson Research Group: Intelligent Systems Start: 2008-08-01 End: 2012-05-31 Partners: Luleå University of Technology, Mälardalen University, Sandvik Mining and Construction AB, Boliden Mineral AB, Parker Hannifin AB, Wipro Infrastructure Engineering AB, Damill AB, Underhållsbyrå Underhålls­ företagen AB, ProjektHydraulik Sverige AB, Hägglund Drives AB, ÅF, Ingemansson AB, LKAB Kiruna, Volvo Aero AB, Volvo Body Components AB Funding: The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) Overview: The goal is to increase the scientific and industrial applicability of knowledge concerning main­ tenance, with the aim to increase productivity, reduce production costs and to generate valuable input for improved engineering design of products and production. The objective of the project is to Develop an approach that can help integrate maintenance needs at the engineer­ ing design stage such as Design for (or out) maintenance, RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Sup­ portability) integration to optimize the total life cycle costs (LCC) for the products. Develop theoretical models to understand and forecast the cost productivity for all investments made towards maintenance cost of manual and automatic machines such as LHD machines. (Load Haul Dump machines). To develop flexible decision mak­ ing models, methods and techniques for implementation of sensor and experience based condition monitoring in manufacturing. Develop an approach for condition based maintenance agents and diagnostics for manufac­ turing systems so as to make the manufacturing process disturbance free to achieve higher product quality and productivity and a cycle of continuous improvement.

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ITS-EASY Post Graduate School for Embedded Software and Systems Leader: Ivica Crnkovic Members: Ivica Crnkovic, Kristina Lundqvist, Malin Rosqvist, Gunnar Widforss, Radu Dobrin, Apala Ray, Daniel Hallmans, Gaetana Sapienza, Mathias Ekman, Stefan Björnander, Henrik Jonsson, Kristian Wiklund, Marcus Jägemar, Daniel Kade, Göran Bertheau, Kivanc Doganay, David Rylander, Fredrik Ekstrand, Stephan Baumgart, Tomas Olsson, Mehrdad Saadatmand, Lars Asplund, Jakob Axelsson, Mats Björkman, Antonio Ciccetti, Peter Funk, Hans Hansson, Damir Isovic, Stig Larsson, Björn Lisper, Thomas Nolte, Paul Pettersson Research Group: Software Engineering Start: 2011-04-01 End: 2018-03-31 Partners: ABB, Bombardier, CrossControl, Ericsson, Etteplan, Imagination Studios, SAAB, SICS, Volvo CE, Xdin Funding: The Knowledge Foundation (KKS) and industrial partners Overview: ITS-EASY is an industrial research school in Embedded Software and Systems, affiliated with the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering (IDT) at Malardalen University (MDH), as an integrated part of the MDH strategic research area Embedded Systems (ES). ITS-EASY envisions to be a unique industrial research school par excellence in the Embedded Systems domain in Sweden. ITS-EASY is focused on topics of paramount importance for dominating parts of Swedish indus­ try: Embedded Systems including Software-Intensive Systems, Dependable (reliable and safe) Systems, and Sensor Systems. The main industrial domains consid­ ered are automation, telecommunication and vehicles.

Intelligent Embedded Systems Leader: Damir Isovic Members: Mats Björkman, Damir Isovic, Lars Asplund, Peter Funk, Maria Lindén, Anders Martinsen Research Group: Model-Based Engineering of Embedded Systems Start: 2009-01-01 End: 2011-08-31 Partners: CrosssControl AB, Prevas AB, Hök instrument AB, RealTest AB, Motion Control AB, Elektronikpartner AB, m. fl. Funding: The Knowledge Foundation (KKS) Overview: An embedded system is a special-purpose computer that performs a few dedicated functions, usu­ ally with very specific requirements. Examples include portable devices such as cell phones or MP3 players, flight control systems, car engine controllers, home appliances, medical equipment, TV sets, video game consolers and many more. These systems are getting more and more intelligent to meet the specific needs of their users. One example is intelligent cruise control in a vehicle, which avoid accidents by automatically breaking the car in case of obstacles in front of it. Embedded systems is Mälardalen University`s most research-intensive area.

This master program relies on a strong research base in the field, provided by Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre (MRTC) and Intelligent Sensor Systems (ISS) centre, both hosted at our school. MRTC is a nationally leading research center for embedded systems, mainly focused on embedded software. The goal is to provide research excellence that will enable the industry to seize the opportunities offered by programmable products and production. ISS is a unit which conducts research in the fields of artificial intelligence, biomedical engineer­ ing, robotics and wireless communications. The focus is on mobile, intelligent sensor systems that will lead to improved safety and efficiency in business and healthcare. All teachers in this master program are researchers at MRTC and ISS, with deep ties to the industry. Research results are continuously being transferred in education. Most of the advanced level courses offered to master stu­ dents in their second year cover state-of-the art research technique in intelligent embedded systems, and they are taken jointly with the PhD students of the depart­ ment. Master program in Intelligent Embedded Systems has eight industrial partners and additional five associ­ ated companies, all of them involved in the education through industrial projects for students, mentorship and guest lectures. Our industrial partners assure the quality and industrial relevance of the program. All course units contain both theory and practice. The main pedagogi­ cal idea that we apply is Problem-Based Learning (PBL), which means that large part of the program is performed in project form. The projects are supplied by our indus­ trial partners, and are solved in collaboration with them.

LACTA - a new method to identify the lactate threshold Leader: Mia Folke Research Group: Biomedical Engineering Start: 2009-01-01 End: 2012-12-31 Partners: Physiotest Funding: NovaMedTech (Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, Tillväxtverket) Overview: The lactate threshold is a good guideline for the endurance performance and for the control of train­ ing. Repeated measurements for individual athletes are of interest, as the threshold is related to types of muscle fibres involved, blood levels of glucose and fatty acids, and the altitude for the exercise. The lactate threshold is generally established by using blood tests. There are also non-invasive techniques to establish the ventilatory threshold. Still there is an interest in finding more cost effective and useful noninvasive methods to estimate the threshold. In previous pilot studies it has been shown that the lactate threshold is possible to estimate using an electro acoustic sensor system, LACTA, analysing the respiratory air. The system measures the molecular weight of the gas inside the sensor. The aim of the project is to further evaluate the system and to evaluate more applications for the sensor system.

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MAMACELL Leader: Magnus Otterskog Members: Magnus Otterskog, Nikola Petrovic, Malin Rosqvist Research Group: Biomedical Engineering Start: 2011-01-01 End: 2012-12-31 Partners: Medfield Diagnostics AB, Stefan Kidborg Västerås Finmekaniska AB, Jürgen Nolte Funding: The Knowledge Foundation (KKS) Overview: Breast cancer is by far the most frequently diagnosed cancer among women, on a world-wide basis. In 2002 1.15 million cases were diagnosed, where 411,000 cases lead to mortality, and those numbers are expected to increase even further in the future. The development of different imaging modalities rendering the human body’s physiological processes and structure has had a large impact on the ability to quickly detect malignant breast tumors through screening programs, where the Xray Mammography is the dominating technique. Howev­ er, there is still a need for alternatives to secure minimal breast cancer mortality in the future, due to the complex­ ity of the breast tissue structure and the limitations of the existing to X-ray modalities. The project is currently building an imaging system for measurements on humans and develops antennas for use directly on human tissue both for stroke detection and microwave mammography.

Measurement system for prevention of pressure sores Leader: Maria Lindén Members: Maria Lindén, Jimmie Hagblad, Mia Folke Research Group: Biomedical Engineering Start: 2008 End: 2011 Partners: Linköping University Funding: Sparbanksstiftelsen nya Overview: Prevention of pressure ulcers through si­ multaneous measurement of pressure, temperature and blood flow. Background Pressure ulcers arise because of ischaemia in the skin, which is mostly created because of high external pressure. Ischaemia leads to destruc­ tion of the cells because of low blood flow, resulting in low oxygen and nutrition supply to the cells, and insuf­ ficient transport of waste products away from the cells. Ischaemia is developed when high pressure, shear and high temperature exists, because of their influence on the blood flow through the pelvic region. Shear means that different layers are displaced in relation to each other, this leads to the destruction of vessels and there­ fore a decrease of the necessary blood flow. Secondary factors for developing of pressure ulcers are exposure time, moisture, lack of nourishment and bad hygiene. Today the hospitals and their buying department have a large and hazardous work when it comes to choose which type of mattresses that will be bought. Every deliver

claims that their mattress has the best pressure relieving principle and accumulate the least heat. There are not any standardized measurement methods for evaluat­ ing mattresses or compare them. In this project we will measure pressure, temperature and moisture between the patient and mattress and also the blood flow in the tissue. By doing this we should be able to comment on which mattress might be the best one for decreasing the risk of developing pressure ulcers. We also hope to decrease the medical care’s cost for treatment of pressure ulcers and most important, minimize the pain and suffering for the patient. Shear and friction contribute to that the skin and bones are displaced from each other, this leads to damage in the tissue in between, like the blood vessels.

Microwaves in biomedicine Leader: Magnus Otterskog Members: Magnus Otterskog, Tommy Henriksson (Gunnarsson), Nikola Petrovic Research Group: Biomedical Engineering Start: 2002 End: 2011 Partners: Västerås finmekaniska AB, Medfield Diagnostics AB Funding: The Knowledge Foundation (KKS), EU Overview: Microwaves are non-ionizing and hence less in­ terfering with biological tissues than x-rays. For this reason microwave imaging in biomedicine is a potential method for mass-screening (mammography). At the same time, microwave sensing is a modality with higher dynamic signal response compared to x-rays, which is a further reason to investigate microwave imaging as a modality for biomedical applications. This project investigates how microwave imaging can be applied for this reason, focusing on measurement techniques and inverse algorithm development.

NovaMedTech Leader: Maria Lindén Members: Maria Lindén, Marcus Bergblomma, Mats Björkman, Mikael Ekström, Martin Ekström, Peter Funk, Mia Folke, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Shahina Begum, Bo von Schéele Research Group: Biomedical Engineering Start: 2008-07-01 End: 2011-06-30 Partners: Linköping University, Landstinget i Örebro, Landstinget i Västmanland, Västerås stad, Landstinget i Sörmland, Katrineholms kommun, Uppsala Universitet Funding: Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth (Tillväxtverket) Overview: The intention of NovaMedTech is to create necessary conditions for the region of eastern central Swe­ den to take the lead on the industrial development within new medical technologies. The initiative also aims to meet the future needs of healthcare products and services.

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To succeed, NovaMedTech will utilize the very good basic conditions that exist in the region in terms of business, research (in universities and colleges),advanced health care (from home care, home health care / community care to specialized care in university hospitals) and activities of stablished knowledge centers. The initiative is further strengthened by the various counties complementary strengths. To ensure the development of new products the resource focus of NovaMedTech is divided into two different product areas: medical technology for distribut­ ed care and personal health and medical technologies for image-based diagnosis and therapy. NovaMedTech further includes an arena for innovation and entrepreneurship, where we intend to use existing structures such as net­ works, support for innovation, incubator businesses, sup­ port of new business, seed financing, economic analysis, clinical evaluation, customized entrepreneurial training, etc.. NovaMedTech also intends to support and develop a network of actors in health care,research and companies where innovation can be captured, tested clinically, com­ mercialized and implemented in the medical business.

NovaMedTech II Leader: Maria Lindén Members: Maria Lindén, Marcus Bergblomma, Mats Björkman, Mikael Ekström, Martin Ekström, Peter Funk, Mia Folke, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Shahina Begum, Bo von Schéele Research Group: Biomedical Engineering Start: 2011 End: 2015 Partners: Linköping University, Örebro county council, Västmanland county council, Västerås municipality, Sörm­ land county council, Katrineholm municipality, Uppsala University, and others Funding: Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth (Tillväxtverket) Overview: The intention of NovaMedTech is to create necessary conditions for the region of eastern central Swe­ den to take the lead on the industrial development within new medical technologies. The initiative also aims to meet the future needs of healthcare products and services. To succeed, NovaMedTech will utilize the very good basic­ conditions that exist in the region in terms of business, research (in universities and colleges),advanced health­ care (from home care, home health care / community care to specialized care in university hospitals) and activities of established knowledge centers. The initiative is further strengthened by the various counties’ complementary strengths. To ensure the development of new products the resources focus of NovaMedTech is divided into twodiffer­ ent product areas: medical technology for distributed care and personal health and medical technologies for imagebased diagnosis and therapy. The new NovaMedTech is an objective 2 project within entrepreneurship in Biomedical engineering, personalized health, as direction. It is a col­ laboration between Västmanland, Östergötland, Sörmland

Örebro län, and a smaller part of Uppsala University. Mälardalen University is one of the key-actors in this project. The project is a collaboration between academic partners, county councils, municipalities and industry in the region. In total, the project size is 57.8 MSEK.

Pain Out, WP decision support for pain relief Leader: Peter Funk Members: Peter Funk, Ning Xiong, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed Research Group: Intelligent Systems Start: 2008-08-01 End: 2012-12-31 Partners: University of Jena Universities of Exeter & Plymouth, Peninsula Medical School; University Exeter (Prof. Taylor) Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), University of Leipzig; ULEI (Dr. Engel) Germany Mälardalen University (Prof. Funk) Swe­ den TAKWA GmbH (SME); TAKWA GmbH (Mr. Buchholz) Germany European Center of Pharmaceutical Medicine (ECPM), University Basel; ECPM Basel (Dr. Schwenkglenks) Switzerland Örebro University Hospital; UH Orebro (Prof. Rawal) Sweden Univesitat Autónoma de Barcelona Hospi­ tial del Mar, IMAS; IMAS-IMIM (Prof. Puig) Spain University of Münster; University Münster (Prof. Pogatzki) Germany Charité, Humbold University, Berlin; Charité Berlin (Prof. Volk) Germany Hospital Cluj-Napoca; Cluj-Napoca Hospit (Dr. Fodor) Romania 12 Barts and The London NHS Trust, London; BLT London (Dr. Ullrich) Kantonsspital Lucerne; KS Lucerne (Prof. Konrad) Switzerland Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Paris; HAP Paris (Prof. Fletcher) France Hospital S. Maria degli Angeli, Pordenone; MdA Pordenone (Prof. Leykin) Italy University of Tel-Aviv Medical Center; University Tel-Aviv (Dr. Brill). Funding: EU HEALTH-2007-3.1-4: Improving clinical decision making Overview: Main objective of the proposed project is to develop and to validate a system for measurement and feedback of outcome quality in the field of postoperative pain. The system will provide the medical community with a unique, user-friendly device to improve treatment of patients in postoperative pain. This will be achieved by using a web-based information system, featuring three functions: Feedback and benchmarking system which provides participating sites with continuously updating data and analyses regarding of quality of care they provide compared to other institutions and allows identification of ‘best clinical practice’. Clinical Decision Support System for Post-Operative Pain, which responds to queries made by physicians for advice regarding treatment of individual patients. A Knowledge Library will provide clinicians with easily accessible summaries of evidence-based recommendations tailored to specific clinical conditions Märardalen University is respon­ sible for the decision support system assisting clinical.

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PICO - Philosophy of Information and Computing Leader: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic Members: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Björn Lisper, Jan Gustafsson and external; Lars-Göran Johansson Start: November 2002 Philosophy of Information and Computing (PICO) com­ bines scientific, philosophical and ethic perspectives on the two fundamental phenomena: information (the structure) and computation (the process). The field is in­ tensely developing internationally within Computing and Philosophy, Foundations of Information, BITRUM and ISIS research communities. PICO represents a fundamental area of research that is rapidly growing, as a consequence of the development of ICT and its increasing impact on all areas of research and everyday life, on a global scale. Our contributions to the field up to now: organizing E-CAP 2005, European Computing and Philosophy Conference, followed by the proceedings published in tripleC journal, http://triplec.uti.at/articles.php. and a number of articles and book chapters and four books within the field.

RALF3 - Software for Embedded High Performance Architectures Leader: Ivica Crnkovic Members: Ivica Crnkovic, Lars Asplund, Jan Carlson, Björn Lisper, Thomas Larsson, Magnus Otterskog, Juraj Feljan, Andreas Gustavsson, Gunnar Widforss, Malin Rosqvist, Luka Lednicki Start: 2012-01-01 End: 2016-12-31 Funding: The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) Overview: The overall goal of Ralf 3 is to formulate and implement an appropriate component model for computa­ tion-intensive embedded real-time systems with very high data rates, and to provide a support for distribution of software to the heterogeneous platform to achieve opti­ mal results in performance, system response, and other important requirements for embedded systems. In parallel with this work a number of systems will be used as test benches and demonstrators. In particular we will use an underwater robot with stereo cameras to evaluate our re­ search results, through architecting its embedded systems.

RAP-Robotics, Automation and Process Control Leader: Mats Björkman Members: Mats Björkman, Johan Åkerberg Research Group: Wireless Communication Start: 2008-07-01 End: 2011-12-31 Partners: ABB, Örebro University and others Funding: The Knowledge Foundation (KKS)

Overview: RAP is an industrial PhD school, led by Örebro University. MDH’s project within RAP deals with safety and securi­ty in wireless automation net­ works, more specifi­cal­ly how safety and security can be introduced in wireless auto­ma­tion without compro­ mising the real­time demands of the applications. The industrial PhD student, Johan Åkerberg, works at ABB and defended his PhD thesis on November 25th, 2011.

RoboCat Leader: Lars Asplund Members: Lars Asplund, Ralf Strömberg Research Group: Robotics Start: 2011-09-01 End: 2012-12-31 Partners: Samhällskontraktet, Attendo, Robotdalen Funding: Samhällskontraktet Robotdalen To develope a robotized cat that can be used in the care of people with dementia.

Robot Colleague - A Project in Collaborative Robotics Leader: Baran Cürüklü Members: Batu Akan, Baran Çürüklü, Johan Hägg Research Group: Computational Perception Laboratory Start: 2010-01-01 End: 2012-12-31 Funding: Robotdalen, VINNOVA, EU Regional Develop­ ment Fund Overview: This project intends to create environments centered on one or several collaborative industrial robots. By adapting this approach we also point the direction of where industrial robotics and automation might be in 10 years from now. Environments created in this initiative will be tested and demonstrated throughout the project, thus we intend to create a synergy through the interac­ tion between the research and the feedback from the presumptive users.

RUNNER Leader: Lars Asplund Members: Lars Asplund, Carl Ahlberg, Giacomo Spampinato Start: 2011 End: 2014 Partners: Funding: EU Eurostar Overview: This is a newly started project funded through Eurostar. Project RUNNER will: Design and Implement a family of innovative cue extraction modules supporting very high rates by taking full advantage of the high pro­ cessing power provided by the high-end Reconfigurable devices. Design and Implement real-time reconfigurable

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object sensing mechanisms which will take advantage of the accurate and fast cue extraction schemes and the high processing power provided by the high-end Reconfigurable devices. Design and Implement a novel Navigation Scheme based on the advanced perception provided by the proposed reconfigurable system. Develop innovative methods for linking the advanced percep­ tion provided with navigation and early warning actions Design and Implement a sophisticated 3D reconstruct­ ing system, tailored to the needs of the cue-extraction modules which will be implemented in Reconfigurable Logic. Develop and implement the middleware for the seamless programming, configuration and management of the RUNNER infrastructure. Prototype and validate RUNNER’s complete infrastructure and demonstrate its efficiency and wide applicability in two real-world trials. The ultimate objective of RUNNER is to deliver a reconfigurable platform prototype with excessive crossdomain applicability. In RUNNER, we believe that in a few years there would be millions of robots in vari­ ous application areas that will all be navigated in an autonomous manner based on 3D video capture; such robots can be efficiently and inexpensively built based on the provided innovative highly flexible infrastructure.

TESLA - Time-critical & Safe wireLess Automation communication Leader: Mats Björkman Members: Mats Björkman, Maria Lindén, Mikael Ekström, Marcus Bergblomma, Martin Ekström, Johan Åkerberg Research Group: Wireless Communication Start: 2010-01-01 End: 2012-12-31 Partners: ABB Corporate Research, Motion Control AB, VG Power AB, DELTA AB Funding: VINNOVA, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems Overview: The project aims at providing guarantees for safety and security in electromagnetically disturbed environments. In collaboration with the companies, we will measure electromagnetic interference in harsh environments, including hospitals and paper mills. The measurement results are used to model the environments so that communication performance can be predicted and calculated in advance.

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Projects starting in 2012 Innocare Leader: Mia Folke Research Group: Biomedical Engineering Start: 2012-01-01 End: 2012-08-30 Partners: Nacka municipality Funding: EU via Nacka municipality Overview: The project aims to make a survey for products used for home care and to analyze what kind of equip­ ment wanted by the users, staff and Nacka Municipality.

Modular Lightweight Robotics Leader: Giacomo Spampinato Research Group: Robotics Start: 2012-01-01 End: 2013-12-31 Partners: ABB Robotics Funding: The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) Overview: Robotics and automation have played a strategic role in manufacturing since half of the twenti­ eth century. Today the competition at the global level is very tough, and the modern industries are identifying a clear trend towards more sustainable, flexible and cost efficient solutions, especially with respect to robotized processes. According to the European Robotics Technol­ ogy Platform (EUROP) strategic research agenda (07/2009), lightweight robotics in manufacturing has been identified as one of the key factor to guarantee flexibility and cost savings, with huge impacts on the energy consumption. ABB, as one the biggest players in the robotics field, is not ignoring the new trend, that opens up new markets and new robot concepts, so the R&D is moving towards new research directions, and new academic collaborations. The objective of the project is to identify and validate new modular and lightweight solutions to structure the new generations of industrial robots where flexibility and energy saving are the main requirements against the current solutions. The expected results for the project are 1) Identification of the best strategies and methodologies to be used in lightweight and modular robotic structures, 2) Validation of the proposed solutions in terms of selected performance indexes, 3) Design and build one or two physical prototypes.

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Staff at ISS

Abrahamsson, Henrik, PhD student Henrik Abrahamsson is a PhD student at ISS and a researcher in the Communication Networks and Systems Laboratory at SICS. His main research interests are in the areas of Internet traffic management, IPTV distribution, and in the evolution of the Internet architecture. Henrik is currently involved in the SICS Center for Networked Systems and in the Chinese-Swedish collaboration on Resource Management for IP-Based Mobile Communication Systems.

Ahlberg, Carl, PhD student Carl Ahlberg joined the Robotics group at the School of Innovation Design and Technology in 2009 as a PhD student. His research area is stereo vision systems for robots. He received his M.Sc. in Information Technology from Uppsala University in 2003, specializing in Human-Computer Interaction and Signal Processing. Before starting his PhD studies Carl has worked at Senseboard AB (R&D), IAR Systems AB (Product related development engineer) and Hectronic AB (Support Manager).

Ahmed, Mobyen Uddin, Researcher Mobyen is trying to invent personalized and adaptive methods, techniques to develop a computer based system that can help the clinician to manage stress in psychophysiology. His research areas are case-based reasoning, datamining, fuzzy logic, diagnosis, treatment and knowledge/experience sharing. Available theses Identification of both Similar and Diverse Rare Cases in Post-operative Pain Management An Intelligent Support System for the Patients with Post-operative Pain

Aslam, Mudassar, PhD student Mudassar Aslam is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Mats Björkman. He is actively involved in different industrial research projects in collaboration with the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS). He holds Masters in Information and Communication Systems Security from KTH. His research interests includes Trusted Computing, Security and Cloud Computing. He is currently working on leveraging Trusted Computing mechanisms to strengthen security and trust in the cloud environments.

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Asplund, Lars, Professor Lars Asplund is Professor in Computer Science at Mälardalen University since 2001. He received his PhD in Physics in 1977 from Uppsala University. After five years at the Swedish National Institue for Building Research Lars returned to Uppsala University 1982. First at the Department of Physics, where docent competence was received. Later moved to Department of Computer Systems (DoCS). At DoCS both as researcher and head of department. Lars has written ten text books, and the latest will appear fall 2011, in robotics. Industrial experiences are Navatron, that was sold to Silva, Asplund Data AB and the creation of Robyn Robotics. Asplund holds four patents. Lars Asplund’s current research include vision sensors for robots - underwater, running or soccer playing.

Begum, Shahina, Post Doc Shahina Begum is a Postdoctoral researcher at Mälardalen University. She received her PhD in computer science in 2011 from Mälardalen University. Shahina’s research focuses on developing intelligent systems in medical and industrial applications. Her research areas are decision support systems, knowledge-based systems, and intelligent monitoring systems.

Bergblomma, Marcus, PhD student Marcus Bergblomma is a PhD student at Mälardalen University. He received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Lund University 2005. Marcus research focus is in predictable time-critical wireless data communication in harsh environments.

Björkman, Mats, Professor Mats Björkman is professor in Computer Communication at Mälardalen University, appointed in 2001. He received his M.Sc. in Computer Science from Uppsala University in 1986, and his PhD in Computer Systems from Uppsala University in 1993. Mats held a post-doctoral research position at University of Arizona in Tucson between 1993 and 1995. He then returned to Uppsala Univer­ sity as a senior lecturer and researcher in computer communication. In 2001 he moved to a chair as professor in Computer Communication at Mälardalen University. Professor Björkman’s research interests include communication performance analysis and predictability, small embedded systems, wireless communication and system-wide performance and predictability issues, including safety, security and other reliability issues.

Blomberg, Caroline , Research Coordinator Caroline Blomberg joined Mälardalen University in 2012 as a Research Coordinator at the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering. Caroline comes from a position as an International Coordi­ nator at the City Executive Office at Västerås stad, working with internationalisation strategically for the municipality. Before that she worked as Director for the International Exchange Unit at Stockholm University (2007-2009) and as Head of the International Office at Stockholm Institute of Education (2005-2007). Caroline holds a MSc. in Business Administration from Mälardalen University.

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Çürüklü, Baran, Senior Lecturer Baran is a member of the Computational perception laboratory. He received his PhD from MDH in April 2005. His thesis supervisor was Prof. Anders Lansner, Computational neuroscience and Neurocomputing Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. After working at MDH until October 2005, as a researcher, he joined the Computer Vision and Pattern Analysis Lab, headed by Prof. Aytül Erçil, Sabanci U., Istanbul, Turkey, as a postdoc. The researched conducted at the VPALAB was on driver fatigue. In April 2007 he joined the Ivanka Savic Berglund Group, Karolinska Inst. as a postdoc. He returned to MDH in August 2007 as a senior lecturer and is also director of studies since 2008. His main research interests are information processing in the brain, and human-robot interaction.

Dodig-Crnkovic, Gordana, Associate Professor Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic is Associate Professor in Computer Science. She holds PhD degrees in Physics and Computer Science. Her current research is in Natural/Unconventional Computation, Computing and Philosophy, Information Science and Theory of Science. She teaches on graduate and undergraduate level. She published a book Information and Computation Nets in 2009 and two edited volumes: Information, Computation, Cognition with Susan Stuart in 2007 and Infor­ mation and Computation with Mark Burgin in 2011. She is a scientific committee member of the International Science of Information Institute, steering committee member of European Comput­ ing and Philosophy Organization, member of the editorial board of the World Scientific Series in Information Studies and member of the editorial board of several journals.

Ekstrand, Fredrik, PhD student Fredrik Ekstrand is a PhD student at Mälardalen University and associated with VOLVO CE. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Uppsala University, and presented his Licentiate thesis in 2011. Previous work includes the development of the Senseboard Virtual Keyboard, a COMDEX Award winner, for which Fredrik is co-author of a US Patent. He currently holds the position as vice coordinator for the Engineering program in Robotics at Mälardalen University. Fredrik’s research focus is on hardware implementation of image processing algorithms, primarily for stereo vision. A stereo vision system, GIMME – A General Image Multiview Manipulation Engine, has been developed as a research platform to be used with industrial partners. A second version is currently under development for industrial applications.

Ekström, Mikael, Senior Lecturer Dr. Mikael “Micke” Ekström is senior lecturer in robotics with main research interests in under­ water robotics, wireless communication and biomedical engineering. Micke has a background as physicist with a M.Sc. in materialphysics, 1993, and PhD in physics, 1999, from Uppsala University. In 2003 Micke was appointed adjunct senior lecturer at the School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowen University, Perth, Western Australia after a stay as visiting fellow.

Ekström, Martin, PhD student Martin Ekström is PhD Student with main research wireless communication and biomedical engineering. Martin has a M.Sc. in Electronics since 2006 from Mälardalen University. His research interests are within the development of hardware platforms for wireless communication. He is currently involved in projects researching predictability and reliable communication in harsh environments.

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Folke, Mia, Senior Lecturer Mia is a senior lecturer in electronics, medical engineering. Her research interest is physiological measurements, both new measurement methods and sensor systems. She studied to Biomedical analyst in Örebro 1988 to 1990 followed by employment as Biomedical analyst at the hospital in Skövde and later at the Swedish Air Force in Stockholm and at the hospital in Eskilstuna. She studied Engineering at Mälardalen University between 1996 and 1999 in parallel with part-time employment at the Swedish Air Force, followed by PhD studies, completed nov 2005. She teaches nurses in biomedical engineering in two courses that she has developed based on a combination of theory and clinical practice.

Funk, Peter, Professor Dr Peter Funk is Professor in Computer Science and Artificial intelligence and Engineering at Mälardalen University and heading the intelligent systems group. He received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh, Department of Artificial Intelligence 1998. Peter Funk has extensive experience in applied research in industry and more than 9 years research for Ericsson in the area of applied AI techniques, requirements engineering and knowledge representation. He is the first to receive the Wallenberg grant for scientific research three times. Beside research activities and supervision of PhD students he is currently involved in starting a new computer science masters program including an AI profile, active in numerous conferences, committees (e.g. ECAI, ICCBR). His current research focus is intelligent, adaptive and learning systems, embedded AI techniques and agent technologies for medical, industrial and bussines applications.

Gerdtman, Christer, PhD student Christer Gerdtman is an industrial PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering research group at Mälardalen University. He has a background in electricity telecommunications and has been working in Swedish industry since 1989, mainly as an electronics engineer but also as a software developer. Christer received his licenciate degree from MDH in 2011, M.Sc. in Electrical Engineer­ ing from Lund University in 1999. Since 2005 he shares his time between industry and academia. His research project is alternative computer mouse for people with disabilities, the devices may be either wired or wireless. The research interest include small embedded systems, (MEMS) sensors and sensor systems, wireless and wired communication, man-machine interaction, development of technical aids and also manufacturing and production aspects.

Girs, Svetlana, PhD student Svetlana Girs is a PhD student in the Wireless Communication group at Mälardalen University since September 2010. She received her B. Sc. and M.Sc. in Telecommunications from St.-Peters­ burg State Polytechnic University in 2009 and 2011 respectively. Her current research is focused on improving the reliability of wireless industrial sensor networks.

Hagblad, Jimmie, PhD student Jimmie Hagblad is a PhD student at IDT. He received a master’s degree in electronic science and engineering from Mälardalen University in 2007, and continued with PhD studies at the same department directly. Jimmie’s research interests include non-invasive methods for evaluation of peripheral blood flow. He is currently involved in projects researching the development and prevention of pressure ulcers.

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Henriksson (Gunnarsson), Tommy, Researcher Tommy Gunnarsson was born in Hallsberg, Sweden in 1978. He received the M.Sc EE degree from Mälardalen University, in 2003. The next year, 2004, he joined the Dep. of Computer Science and Electronics as a PhD student in the field of microwave imaging in biomedical applications. He fol­ lowed a Swedish-French convention for joint supervision with Universitié Paris-Sud 11, from Dec. 2006. He received his Lic degree in Electronics, April 2007, with the thesis entitled “Microwave Imaging of Biological Tissues: Applied Toward Breast Tumor Detection”. He received a FrenchSwedish PhD degree in Physics and Electronics respectively, June 2009, with the dissertation entitled “Contribution to Quantitative Microwave Imaging Techniques for Biomedical Applications”.

Jagestig Bjurquist, Therese, Research Coordinator Therese Jagestig Bjurquist works as a Research Coordinator at the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University.

Koshmak, Gregory, PhD student Born 1988/02/20, city of Leninsk (Bajkonur), Kazakhstan. Attended gymnasium Nr.116, SaintPetersburg, Russia, graduated in 2005. Entered Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Robotics Department, specialization “Robots and Intelligent Systems” same year. Gained a Bachelor degree with the final project entitled “Robotic Manipulation and Control System based on Micro Controller” in 2009. Entered Örebro University, Sweden (Master program in Robotics and intelligent systems) and two years later completed his Master degree with a final thesis “An Android Based Monitoring and Alarm System for Patients with Chronic Obtrusive disease”. While completing the thesis work, was hired as a research engineer at the IDT department, Mälardalen University, continued as a PhD student.

Larsson, Thomas, Senior Lecturer / Assistant Professor Thomas Larsson is a teacher and researcher in Computer Science at Mälardalen University. In 2008, he was promoted to Senior Lecturer / Assistant Professor (universitetslektor) on pedagogic skills. He received a Bachelor and Master Degree in 1996 and 1999, respectively, in computer engineering. His PhD degree in computer science was completed in 2009. Currently, his research focuses mainly on real-time computer graphics, interactive systems, and parallel data structures.

Lidholm, Jörgen, PhD student Jörgen Lidholm is a PhD student in the robotics group at Mälardalen University. His main research interest in vision based robot navigation, with focus on algorithm implementation on FPGAs. Jörgen got his M.Sc. in computer engineering in 2006 from Mälardalen University.

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Lindell, Rikard, Senior Lecturer Rikard Lindell, PhD is a senior lecturer and manager of the department of Computer Science and Network (CSN). He is active in interaction design, and multimedia development for mobile embedded (mobile) systems with focus on principals and practice for novel interaction techniques. Rikard provides courses with the same focus. Hi is also an innovator and have received several awards, not at least a nomination for the innovator of the year – Guldstänk 2009. In November 2010 Rikard’s start up company will release C3LOOPS an iPad-app for collaborating music and video artists. C3LOOPS is a direct commercialization result of his dissertation “Jag älskar att allt ligger överst” – I love that everything is on top: a design study of surface interaction for collabora­ tive multimedia performances.

Lindén, Maria, Associate Professor Marias research profile is to develop sensor systems for monitoring of physiological parameters. This includes wearable, wireless senor systems monitoring vital parameters in home environ­ ment and technologies to measure blood flow at different tissue depths combining the techniques laser Doppler flowmetry and Photopletysmography (PPG). Further, research on sensor systems for movement analysis, based on gyro principles and / or accelerometers and advanced signal analysis is included.

Olsson, Ella, PhD Dr. Ella Olsson is a postdoctoral research fellow at Mälardalen University in Västerås since October 2009. She started her PhD studies in computer science at Mälardalen University in collaboration with ABB Robotics in 2004 and finished in 2009. Her research area lies within Artificial Intelli­ gence and its application within Condition Based Monitoring and maintenace (CBM) of industrial machines and implementation of intelligent CBM systems.

Olsson, Tomas, PhD student Tomas Olsson is a PhD student at MDH and a researcher at SICS, with a licentiate degree from Uppsala University. His research interests are in applied artificial intelligence, statistical machine learning and case-based reasoning.

Otterskog, Magnus, Senior Lecturer Born 1972 in Arboga. Engineering studies at Örebro University between 1992 and 1996 followed by part time employment at Ericsson Mobile Communications in Kumla and in parallel studying courses at Chalmers and in Lund. PhD student in Örebro 2000-2006, finished Nov 2006. Employed as a researcher at Mälardalen University from October 2006. Now employed as Senior lecturer.

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Petrovic, Nikola, PhD student Nikola Petrovic was born in Nis, Serbia in 1972.He received the M.Sc EE degree from Mälardalen University, in 2006.In the autumn same year he joined MDH as a PhD student.His research interests include characterization of material properties and antenna and RF design for Microwave Imaging.

Ray, Apala, PhD student Apala Ray is a PhD student at Mälardalen University and associate scientist at ABB Corporate Research. She studied engineering in India. She has received her B.TECH in Electronics and Com­ munication Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology and M.TECH in Information Technology specialized in Networking and Communication from International Institute of Infor­ mation Technology, Bangalore. She has done a short stint at Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany for her master thesis which is on BLAST Architecture (MIMO System) in 2008. She has been working with ABB in the area of wireless and mobile technologies since 2008. Currently she is perusing her PhD at Mälardalen University as Industrial PhD Student from ABB in the area of security in industrial communication.

Raza, Shahid, PhD Shahid works in the area of wireless security in general and wireless sensor networks security in particular. Currently he is working on WirelessHART security. WirelessHART is a new standard for Industrial process automation and control system. Future interest include implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) for Contiki operating system.

Spampinato, Giacomo, Senior Lecturer Giacomo Spampinato is currently working as post doctoral researcher within the Robotics group at the School of Innovation Design and Technology from 2009. His research activity is mainly focused on autonomous navigation and 3D localization for mobile industrial robots using stereo­ vision. His background spans from industrial to service robotics. He obtained his PhD in 2006 at the University of Catania, Italy, focusing on humanoid robotics and artificial limbs. After spending one year working in industry developing electronics for electrical appliances, he came back to academia working for 2 years as a post doctoral researcher focusing on control for industrial robots in welding applications, together with KUKA and the AMRC (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre) in Sheffield.

Uhlemann, Elisabeth, Associate Professor Dr. Elisabeth Uhlemann got her M.Sc. degree in computer systems engineering from Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden, in 1998 and her PhD degree in communications theory from Chalmers University of Technology in 2004. She currently holds a position as associate professor in Wireless Real-Time Communications at the Centre for Research on Embedded Systems (CERES), Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden. Her research is directed towards real-time communica­ tions, concatenated codes, incremental redundancy, cooperative relay networks, cross-layer design and vehicular communications.

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Widforss, Gunnar, Research Coordinator Joined MDH 1999 as research officer in the central administration and the division of education and research. He was responsible for research related tasks at the university board and faculty board. Coordinator for the research administration and the administrative support to the boards of faculties, Deputy head of division 2002-2004, Substitute EU Liaison officer 2002, Substitute director of postgraduate studies 2004, Substitute head of division 2004-2005. Since 2005 he was part of the department of computer science and electronics and currently the school of innovation, design and engineering, as research coordinator. Since 2010 head of RECO. Gunnar is Certified Project Manager (IPMA, International Project Management Association).

Xiong, Ning, Associate Professor Ning Xiong obtained the PhD from the University of Kaiserslautern (Germany) with outstanding distinction (mit Auszeichnung) for his work in genetic-fuzzy systems. His research interests include: case-based reasoning, fuzzy systems and soft computing, machine learning, management of uncer­ tainty, evolutionary computation as well as information fusion. His research emphasizes hybridiza­ tion of various AI techniques for enhancing systems capability and their applications in medical and industrial domains.

Yu, Kan, PhD student Kan Yu started his PhD study in Mälardalen University in October, 2010. He arrived in Sweden in 2008. Before that, he received his B.Sc. from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in China in 2005 and worked in Huawei Tech. Co. Ltd. and Datang Tele. Co. as an embedded soft­ ware engineer for three years. In 2010, he received a M.Sc. from Chalmers University of Technology in commmunication engineering program. Now his research interests are embedded systems and wireless sensor networks.

Åkerberg, Anna, Research Engineer Anna Åkerberg has a Master Degree in Public Health Science. She started to work at Mälardalen University in 2011 as a research engineer in health technology. As a public health scientist she is interested in promoting health and to prevent people from getting sick. In her work she is focusing on how we can use health technology, i.e. technical solutions that can contribute to a healthier population.

Åkerberg, Johan, Adjunct Researcher Holds a MSc (2007) and a PhD (2011) in Computer Science and Engineering from Mälardalen University. He is a IEEE Senior Member in IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and IEEE Commu­ nications Society since 2011. Besides from working at Mälardalen University he is also a global research area coordinator at ABB AB, Corporate Research.

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Publications Books 1.

Ekstrand, Fredrik: Resource Optimized Stereo Matching in Reconfigurable Hardware for Autonomous Systems, Lic Thesis, Mälardalen University Press, 2011

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Gerdtman, Christer: Avancerade alternativa inmatningsenheter till datorer för funktionshindrade, Lic Thesis, Mälardalen University Press, 2011

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Lidholm, Jörgen: Stereo vision algorithms in reconfigurable hardware for robotics applications, Lic Thesis, Mälardalen University Press, 2011

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Raza, Shahid: Securing Communication in IP-Connected Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks, Lic Thesis, Mälardalen University Press, 2011

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Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Mark Burgin (Department of Mathematics, University of California, LA): Information and Computation, World Scientific Publishing Co. Series in Information Studies, ISBN: 978-981-4295-47-5, 2011

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Shahina Begum, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Peter Funk, Ning Xiong, Mia Folke: Case-Based Reasoning Systems in the Health Sciences: A Survey of Recent Trends and Developments, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part C: Applications and Reviews, IEEE, December, 2011

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Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic: Significance of Models of Computation from Turing Model to Natural Computation, Minds and Machines, vol 21, nr 2, p301, Springer, December, 2011

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Christer Gerdtman, Ylva Bäcklund, Maria Lindén: A gyro sensor based computer mouse with a USB interface: A technical aid for motor-disabled people, Accepted for publication in Technology and Disability, December, 2011

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Ning Xiong: Learning fuzzy Rules for similarity assessment in case-based reasoning, Expert Systems with Applica­ tions, vol 38, p10780-10786, Elsevier, December, 2011

10. Ning Xiong: Towards coherent matching in case-based classification, Cybernetics and Systems, vol 42, nr 3, p198-214, Taylor, December, 2011 11. Martin Ekström, Marcus Bergblomma, Maria Lindén, Mats Björkman, Mikael Ekström: A Bluetooth Radio Energy Consumption Model for Low Duty-Cycle Applications, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Mea­ surement, vol PP, nr 99, p1 - 9, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society , December, 2011 12. Johan Åkerberg, Mikael Gidlund (external), Tomas Lennvall, Jonas Neander, Mats Björkman: Efficient Integration of Secure and Safety Critical Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Commu­ nications and Networking, November, 2011 13. Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Baran Çürüklü: Robots - Ethical by Design, Ethics and Information Technology, Special issue on Requirements Engineering, nr 9278, Springer, August, 2011 14. Tunca Ulubilge (external), Atahan Afsar (external), Baran Çürüklü: A biological plausible recurrent model of V1 hypercolumns, BMC Neuroscience, vol 12(Suppl 1), p48, BioMed Central Ltd, July, 2011 15. Hongyu Pei-Breivold, Ivica Crnkovic, Magnus Larsson: A systematic review of software architecture evolution research, Information and Software Technology, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2011.06.002, July, 2011 16. Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Wolfgang Hofkirchner (Technische Universität Wien, TU Wien, Vienna University of Technology): Floridi’s Open Problems in Philosophy of Information, Ten Years After, Information, vol 2, nr 2, p327359, MDPI, July, 2011 17. Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic: Dynamics of Information as Natural Computation, Information, Special Issue with Selected Papers from FIS 2010 Beijing Conference, vol 2 , nr 3, p460-477, MDPI, July, 2011 18. Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Shahina Begum, Peter Funk, Ning Xiong, Bo von Schéele: A Multi-Module Case Based Biofeedback System for Stress Treatment, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol 51, nr 2, p107-115, ELSEVIER, February, 2011 19. Ella Olsson, Peter Funk, Alf Andersson (Volvo Car Corporation Manufacturing Engineering): Case-Based Reasoning Applied to Geometric Production Measurements, International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management, vol Accepted for publishing, Springer, February, 2011

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Theses 20. Hongyu Pei-Breivold: Software Architecture Evolution through Evolvability Analysis, Ph D Thesis, Mälardalen University, November, 2011 21. Johan Åkerberg: On Safe and Secure Communication in Process Automation, Ph D Thesis, Mälardalen University Press, November, 2011 22. Mobyen Uddin Ahmed: A Multimodal approach for clinical diagnosis and treatment, Ph D Thesis, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden, November, 2011 23. Shahina Begum: A personalised case-based stress diagnosis system using physiological sensor signals , Ph D Thesis, Mälardalen University, June, 2011 24. Jimmie Hagblad: Non-invasive techniques for assessment of peripheral blood flow at different vascular depths, Licen­ tiate Thesis, MRTC, May, 2011 Articles in collection 25. Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic: Floridi’s Information Ethics as Macro-Ethics and Info-Computational Agent-Based Models, Luciano Floridi`s Philosophy of Technology: Critical reflections, Springer Verlag, Editor(s): Demir Hilmi, November, 2011 26. Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic: Info-Computational Philosophy of Nature: An Informational Universe With Computational Dynamics, Festschrift for Søren Brier, CBS University Press: Copenhagen, Denmark, ISBN: forthcoming, Editor(s): Sørensen, B., Cobley, P., Thellefsen, T., 2011 Conferences and workshops 27. Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Peter Funk: Mining Rare Cases in Post-Operative Pain by Means of Outlier Detection, IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT) 2011, Spain, December, 2011 28. Shahina Begum, Mohd. Siblee Islam (external), Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Peter Funk: K-NN Based Interpolation to Handle Artifacts for Heart Rate Variability Analysis, IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Spain, December, 2011 29. Fredrik Ekstrand, Carl Ahlberg, Mikael Ekström, Lars Asplund, Giacomo Spampinato: Resource Limited Hardware-based Stereo Matching for High-Speed Vision System , Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA 2011), Wellington, December, 2011 30. Carl Ahlberg, Jörgen Lidholm, Fredrik Ekstrand, Giacomo Spampinato, Mikael Ekström, Lars Asplund: GIMME - A General Image Multiview Manipulation Engine , Proceedings of the International Conference on ReConFigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig 2011), Cancun, November, 2011 31. Afshin Ameri E., Batu Akan, Baran Çürüklü, Lars Asplund: A General Framework for Incremental Processing of Multimodal Inputs, International Conference on Multimodal Interaction - ICMI 2011, ACM, Alicante, November, 2011 32. Batu Akan, Afshin Ameri E., Baran Çürüklü: Augmented Reality-based Industrial Robot Control, SIGRAD 2011, p 113-114, Stockholm, Sweden, November, 2011 33. Mia Folke: Produktutveckling inom ramen för ett forskningsprojekt, Medicinteknikdagarna 2011, p 106, Linköping, Sweden, November, 2011 34. Per Ask (external), Peter Hult (Linköping University), Maria Lindén, Nils-Erik Pettersson (Örebro läns landsting), Kristina Ekstrand (Katrineholms kommun): NovaMedTechs satsning på medicinsk teknik för individualiserad vård, Svenska Läkaresällskapets riksstämma 2011, 30 Nov-2 Dec, Stockholm, Sweden, November, 2011 35. Filip Barac (external), Johan Åkerberg, Mikael Gidlund (external): A Lightweight Routing Protocol for Industrial Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks, The 37th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), Melbourne, Australia, November, 2011 36. Mia Folke, Anna Åkerberg (external): Tekniker som stimulerar till ökad fysisk aktivitet, Medicinteknikdagarna 2011, p 67, Linköping, Sweden, October, 2011 37. Mia Folke, Frederic Hermans (Uppsala University), Ioana Rodhe (Uppsala University), Mats Björkman, Maria Lindén, Per Gunningberg (external): A non-invasive, mobile system for lactate threshold estimation, Medicin­ teknikdagarna 2011, p 109, Linköping, Sweden, October, 2011 38. Johan Åkerberg, Frank Reichenbach (external), Mikael Gidlund (external), Mats Björkman: Measurements on an Industrial Wireless HART Network Supporting PROFIsafe: A Case Study, The 16th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA), Toulouse, France, September, 2011

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39. Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Peter Funk: A Case-Based Retrieval System for Post-operative Pain Management, International Workshop Case-Based Reasoning CBR 2011, p 30-41, IBaI, Germany , New York, USA, Editor(s):Petra Perner and Georg Rub, September, 2011 40. Kan Yu, Mikael Gidlund (external), Johan Åkerberg, Mats Björkman: Reliable and Low Latency Transmission in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks, First International Workshop on Wireless Networked Control Systems (WNCS), Niagara Falls, Canada, September, 2011 41. Shahina Begum: A Case-Based Driver’s State Monitoring System Using Physiological Sensor Signals, 11th Industrial Conference, ICDM 2011, Advances in Data Mining, Workshop Proceedings on Case-Based Reasoning, p 42-54, Ibai Publishing, New York, USA, Editor(s):Petra Perner and Georg Rub, September, 2011 42. Giacomo Spampinato, Jörgen Lidholm, Carl Ahlberg, Fredrik Ekstrand, Mikael Ekström, Lars Asplund: An Embedded Stereo Vision Module for 6D Pose Estimation and Mapping, Proceedings of the IEEE international con­ ference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS2011, San Francisco, September, 2011 43. Johan Åkerberg, Mikael Gidlund (external), Mats Björkman: Future Research Challenges in Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks Targeting Industrial Automation, 9th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informat­ ics (INDIN), Lisbon, Portugal, July, 2011 44. Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic: Agent Based Modeling with Applications to Social Computing, Proceedings IACAP 2011. The Computational Turn: Past, Presents, Futures?3, p 305, Århus University, Danmark, Editor(s): Charles Ess and Ruth Hagengruber, July, 2011 45. Patrick Backhaus (student), Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic: Wikileaks and Ethics of Whistle Blowing, Proceedings IACAP 2011. The computational Turn: Past, Presents, Futures?, p 332, MV-WISSENSCHAFT, Münster, Århus University, Danmark, Editor(s):Charles Ess and Ruth Hagengruber, July, 2011 46. Linda Rattfält (Linköping University), Maria Lindén, Peter Hult (Linköping University), Per Ask (external): Robust Heart Beat Detector Based on Weighted Correlation and Multichannel Input -Implementation on the ECG Recorded with Textile Electrodes, pHealth 2011, 29 June-1 July 2011, Lyon, France, Lyon, France, July, 2011 47. Batu Akan, Afshin Ameri E., Baran Çürüklü, Lars Asplund: Intuitive Industrial Robot Programming Through Incremental Multimodal Language and Augmented Reality, International Conferance on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011), p 3934--3939, IEEE, Shanghai, May, 2011 48. Mia Folke, Frederic Hermans (Uppsala University), Ioana Rodhe (Uppsala University), Mats Björkman, Maria Lindén, Per Gunningberg (external): Mobile system for establishing the lactate threshold by analysing the respiratory air, 2nd International Conference on Ambulatory Monitoring of Physical Activity and Movement, p 102, ICAMPAM, Glasgow, Scotland, May, 2011 Technical reports 49. Mobyen Uddin Ahmed: PhD thesis proposal: Multimodal Approach for Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment, Technical Report, MRTC, February, 2011 50. Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Shahina Begum: Bibliometric Profiling of a Group: A Discussion on Different Indicators, Technical Report, MRTC, February, 2011

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