A New economy and a new world

This time the communication and embedded industry is not the culprit but it can be the solution. New companies, new technologies and research can hold the key.

There is now consensus in the industrial and political world that research and education are two key ingredients needed to face the current and future challenges in the economic environment.
The next step is to convert the results to industrial products. The focus in this session is on the research institutes and their cooperation with the industry. We will hear about successful product introductions and how the results can be improved in the future.

Presentations will be made by:

Martin Törngren ICES KTH

“Achieving long term multidisciplinary cooperation and learning with Industry and Academia in the driving seat”

The paradigm shift imposed by embedded systems has far reaching implications, providing a strong potential for innovation as well as needs for industry and academia to create new competences, product architectures, supporting processes, methods and tools.
Science and product development have indeed come a long way since the days of Leonardo da Vinci. The fragmented situation in academia and in industry needs to be overcome, and new collaborative schemes formed, in order to enable the potential of embedded systems.
We motivate the need for collaboration cross disciplines,
academia-industry and industrial domains, and describe experiences in achieving and implementing collaboration.

Martin Törngren is a Professor in Embedded control systems at KTH since 2002. Since his PhD, he has been conducting multidisciplinary research and education addressing the science and engineering of embedded systems. Much of the research has been conducted in close collaboration with industry and with the academic disciplines Mechatronics, Automatic control, Computer science and Software
engineering. His research interests are in the areas of model based engineering, architectural design and mechatronics co-design, where he has supervised seven PhDs. He is today heading a research group of 14 persons at KTH, and is the director of ICES - the KTH based Embedded systems centre. For more information including a longer CV see
www.md.kth.se/~martin

Per Runeson Lund University EASE

“Joint software engineering research - into the reality”

Dr. Per Runeson is a professor in software engineering at Lund University, Sweden, and is the director for the industrial excellence center EASE (Embedded Applications Software Engineering). His research interests include methods to facilitate, measure and manage various aspects of software quality, especially testing and inspection methods as well as agile methods. The research has a strong empirical focus including cooperation with major companies.
He received a PhD from Lund University in 1998 and has five years of industrial experience as a consulting expert in software engineering. Prof. Runeson is ranked 5th worldwide in R. Glass ranking of SSE research scholars 2002-2006. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, Journal of Software Testing, Verification and Reliability and several program committees

Mälardalen Real-Time research Centre (MRTC) is Sweden's leading organization
in research in embedded industrial systems. Besides our well recognized
academic research a large portion of our research is conducted in
cooperation with Swedish and European industry. In this talk we demonstrate
how we work to achieve successful deployment of our results in the embedded
systems industry.

Professor Mikael Sjödin holds a position at Mälardalen Real-Time research
Centre (MRCT), Mälardalen University since 2006. His academic background
includes a PhD from Uppsala University in 2000 and has included work in
real-time analysis of many types of advanced real-time systems and
communications systems. Since 2000 he has shared his time between academia
and industry, working with development of software for distributed embedded
systems.

Jerker Delsing Luleå University ESIS

“ESIS - Embedded Systems a regional Innovation System”

ESIS is a regional innovation system targeting business and competence development based on embedded systems. The innovation system is built on three platforms, industrial, research and recruitment and competence development. The triple helix idea is used as a corner stone in the innovation system. Here a close collaboration between industry and university is fostered with a strong support from society. Expected results are economical growth, high industrial competence and leading research capability.

Prof. Delsing received the M.Sc. in Engineering Physics at Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden 1982. In 1988 he received the PhD. degree in Electrical Measurement at the Lund University. During 1985 - 1988 he worked part time at Alfa-Laval - SattControl with development of sensors and measurement technology. In 1994 he got the docent degree (associate prof) in Heat and Power Engineering. Early 1995 he was appointed full professor in Industrial Electronics at Lulea University of Technology where he currently is working as the scientific head of EISLAB, http://www.eislab.csee.ltu.se. For the period 2004-2006 he also served as Dean of the engineering faculty at Lulea University of Technology. His present research profile can be entitled "Embedded Internet Systems", EIS, with applications to industry, medicine and sport. The general idea is that most sensors and actuator will have communication capability using the Internet and the "TCP/IP" protocol suite and be capable of ah-hoc integration into a communication network and an application framework. Since 1999 he is president of ITF (Instrument Tekniska Foreningen/Instrument Society of Sweden).