ICES

Seminar - To Teach and Learn with the Brain in mind
2022-03-25 09:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Gradängsalen, Teknikringen 1, Stockholm, Sweden
ICES is continuing our efforts within Up-Skilling. Not only are we discussing the technical subjects that are important within the industry, but we are also looking into how we learn and how that affects the design of our courses. There are new demands on our abilities to learn throughout life, not only due to competition but also to handle the fast pace of development in all areas of society. This puts new demands on the ability to teach as well, both inside and outside of the universities.
Teaching, as a skill, is groundbreaking when it is performed well, but equally neglected when it is confused with pure exposure of information. The same can be said about learning. We do not learn during the consumption of information. We learn when we reflect upon what we have consumed. It takes time, effort and an idea of how it is done.
Both teaching and learning are processes facilitated by having an awareness of how learning is established in the brain.
During this full-day seminar, we will work through the principles of both teaching and learning. It will be theory, hands-on strategies, exercises, discussions and insights into the workings of the brain and its implications.

The seminar will be held by Anna Tebelius Bodin. Anna is an appreciated lecturer and award-winning author of 5 books. She has been working with the effect our brain has on learning for over 15 years.

Details
Date: Friday 25th of March 09.00-16.00
Where: Gradängsalen, Teknikringen 1 KTH Campus
Who: Teachers, R&D Mangers, HR, Talent Management
Signup by sending an email to ices-admin@md.kth.se

Lunch and coffee will be provided. This seminar is free of charge and intended for ICES Members and specially invited guests.

ICES Meet & GREET + Mechatronics Grand Finale!
2021-12-13 13:00 - 18:00 | M2, Brinellvägen 64, Brinellvägen 64, Stockholm, Sweden
The ICES Network, together with our Master Students, are happy to invite our members to an afternoon full of team presentations, great demos and a pizza slice…or two. We are talking autonomous machines, embedded systems, neural networks, image recognition and many other cool technologies that have come to life in different projects. This is also a great opportunity to say hi to some of the other ICES members after two years of Covid-19 restrictions.

After almost a year of hard work, our 5 Teams are ready to reveal their final result.

13:00 – Grand Opening (Room M2, Brinellvägen 64)

13:15 – Team Presentations
14:30 – Demo Tour # Meet the teams (Brinellvägen 83)

16:00 – Grab a bite from the Truck

9th Scandinavian Conference on SYSTEM & SOFTWARE SAFETY
2021-11-23 - 2021-11-24 | Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden
Göteborg, November 23-24, 2021

– More information here
– Submit presentation proposal here
System and software safety in electronic systems is becoming increasingly central in many industries. Industries are heading towards more and more connected and advanced software-intensive systems. Many organization face the same kind of challenges and sharing experience is essential.
The conference is organized by Addalot, ICES (KTH) and SAFER and has become the central meeting place for Scandinavian safety experts from different industries. It is an opportunity to share experiences and make new contacts. There will be a plenary overview part split on two days, and a second part with parallel sessions. The parallel sessions will be in depth workshops and tutorials about different challenges, techniques, standards and methods.
The second part includes parallel sessions with in-depth workshops and tutorials about different challenges, techniques, standards and methods. As for the previous years, we anticipate a healthy mixture of participants and presentations from different industries and academia
Do you want to share with the safety experts of Scandinavia? Do you want to “connect” with the safety experts of Scandinavia?
You are invited to prospose a presentation or/and turorial
Deadline for call for presentation is April 23, 2021.

Digitalized industry – Part 2 Workshop on Opportunities in Horizon Europe, Insights into industrial challenges and collaboration
2021-11-09 13:00 - 17:00
You are cordially invited to join this workshop in two parts.
The preliminary aim is a physical meeting at KTH, with a fallback as a hybrid/on-line meeting. The physical venue takes 30 people.
Lunch will be served for those registered for the physical meeting.

This invite concerns the second part (following up on the Horizon Europe thread from the morning.
A couple of industrial organizations will be sharing insights from their industrial roadmaps. We will also come back to the Horizon Europe and partnership program opportunities, and open up for a discussion regarding the industrial needs and project proposal opportunities. The workshop is particularly directed towards new and young KTH faculty, but also open to all interested.

Starting with lunch 12-13 for those that registered for it!

Preliminary agenda!
13.15 – Introduction – industrial needs and challenges in the area of Industrial digitalization
13.20-15.00: Insights from industry and sharing (of parts of) industrial roadmaps – industry presentations (preliminary list of companies: ABB, Atlas Copco and Ericsson)
15.00-15.30: Complementary insights from various research agendas and roadmaps (KTH, Monica Bellgran and Martin Törngren)
15.30-16.00: Workshop wrap up, concluding discussion
For questions, you are welcome to contact Martin Törngren

This event is a co-organized event by Digital Futures, the KTH platforms for Digitalization and Industrial Transformation, and the ICES and TECoSA research centers.

Digitalized industry – Part 1 Workshop focusing on Opportunities in Horizon Europé and Insights into industrial challenges (part 1)
2021-11-09 09:00 - 12:00
You are cordially invited to join this workshop in two parts. The preliminary aim is a physical meeting at KTH, with a fallback as a hybrid/online meeting. The physical venue takes 30 people.
Lunch will be served for those registered for the physical meeting.

In the first workshop part, the focus is on opportunities in Horizon Europé, the continuation of the H2020 EU program, which recently started. The program is very large with many different parts.
We here focus on dissemination and discussing concrete calls and opportunities in the area most relevant for Digitalized industry.
Another focus will be on best practices and how KTH can support proposal efforts. Bring your questions and ideas!

In the second part, a couple of industrial organizations will be sharing insights from their industrial roadmaps. We will also come back to the Horizon Europe and partnership program opportunities, and open up for a discussion regarding the industrial needs and project proposal opportunities.
The workshop is particularly directed towards new and young KTH faculty, but also open to all interested.

Preliminary agenda part 1 – Insights into Horizon Europe: 09.00 – 11.30
– 09.00: Short introduction (Martin Törngren)
– 09.05: Overview and opportunities: Horizon Europe, Cluster 4 (Digital, industry and space) and related partnership programs (Lars Gustafsson, Vinnova)
– Incl. Q&A!
09.50: Panel debate – Key takeaways and experiences from European research projects: Panel discussion with representatives from industry and KTH (Mikael Östling – KTH, Magnus Isaksson – RTE, large companies – currently tentatively with ABB and Ericsson)
The topic is intended to inspire and provide experiences regarding what to think about when initiating (going for) an EU research project and how to implement it. Strengthening Swedish participation and collaboration in the context of EU research is also another important concern.
10.40-10.55: Coffee
10.55 – 11.20: How KTH can support proposers (Anna Raask, KTH Research support office)
11.20: Workshop wrap up, concluding discussion

After lunch, the workshop continues on the topic of industrial roadmaps (the second workshop part).

For questions, you are welcome to contact Martin Törngren

The event is a co-organized event by Digital Futures, the KTH platforms for Digitalization and Industrial Transformation, and the ICES and TECoSA research centers.

ICES Conference 2021 - Lifelong Learning
2021-10-28 09:00 - 12:30 | Online / YouTube
ICES Conference 2021 – Lifelong Learning
Lifelong Learning is here to stay and Industry and Academia will step up the game!
Date and time: 28 October 2021, 09:00-12:30 Location: Online Broadcast + Free online talks
Continuous learning, professional learning, constant learning, lifelong learning – whatever you want to call it, it’s a reality and an opportunity that every company and employee should care about. Not only beneficial for the employee, but the idea of continuous learning and personal development also helps your business. Academia and Industry have a lot to gain from working smarter together. And during this event, we are elaborating on what this partnership needs to look like to make sure that Swedish Industry, and its employees, could continue to stay at the technical forefront.
Online TalksAfter the conference, we will continue to publish interesting talks and presentations on our Youtube channel to stimulate you to continue the discussion.

Watch the Conference here
Event program

09:00 Welcome
09:15 Driving a learning organizationDorna Eriksson Shafiei, Vice President Talent ManagementAtlas Copco
10:00 PECA – A brand new modelTobias Vahlne, Director ICES Industry NetworkKTH
10:30 Coffee Break
10:40 Ingenjör 4.0Peter Myhrström, Head of Partner Experience Collegial11:00 Rapidly changing industry needs call for pedagogic transformationMattias Wiggberg, Researcher and Project Manager Fordonsdalen & REACTKTH
11:20 How Industry needs will shape the future
Martin Karlsson, Head of Tightening technique & Chairman of the Board ICES Industry NetworkAtlas Copco
11:40 The power of how
Nina Lindström, Education and Learning Strategist
11:50 Panel Discussion
Nina Lindström, Education and Learning StrategistAnders Forsberg, Head of Scania Academy
Moderated by Martin Karlsson, Chairman of the Board ICES Industry Network
12:30 Closing Words

Please RSVP below to make sure that you receive event updates and information on how to participate in the event.

(The program is still subject to change)

Digitalize in Stockholm
2021-10-20 - 2021-10-21
Digitalize in Stockholm is an annual conference and meeting place for global thought leaders and rising stars engaged in transformation through digitalization in academia, industry, government and civil society. This year the event is planned to be held 20-21 Oct.

Coffee with an Expert - Research, technology development and innovation with 5G in North of Sweden
2021-09-29 14:00 - 15:30
This Coffee with an Expert, by Prof. Karl Andersson from LTU, will be brodcasted via ZOOM and the link is provided via emial before the event.
The Luleå University of Technology conducts research, technology development and innovation linked to 5G and inaugurated the first testbed in June 2019 together with Ericsson and Telia. Today, research, technology development and innovation are conducted together with large companies, SMEs and the public sector in four locations in Norrbotten and Västerbotten. The research includes advanced signal processing within 5G, innovation processes linked to 5G and edge computing. The work is conducted in close collaboration with partners and a large number of test cases have been performed both indoors and outdoors, in lab environments and real environments as well as with both 5G NSA and 5G SA.

Speaker
Prof. Karl Andersson – Short BiographyAfter receiving his master degree in Computer Science and Technology from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Karl Andersson started his professional career as a consultant, project manager, business developer, and branch manager within the Capgemini Group. Returning to academia as a PhD Student he obtained his PhD degree after defending his thesis “On Access Network Selection Models and Mobility Support in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks”. After visiting Columbia University in the City of New York as a postdoctoral researcher and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan as a JSPS Fellow, Karl is now Professor in Pervasive and Mobile Computing at Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Skellefteå, Sweden. Since 2017, Karl is leading Centre for Distance-spanning Technology at LTU specialising in research centred around fifth generation mobile networks (5G), Internet of Things (IoT), and datacenters. Karl is currently coordinating a number of projects funded by the EU, VINNOVA, and the Swedish Energy Agency.

Workshop - Ideation on future learnings
2021-09-01 09:00 - 17:00 | KTH Brinellvägen 85, Room Gladan, Brinellvägen, 85, Stockholms län, 114 28
How do we support Long-Term Careers?
Join this ICES workshop to understand how companies and organizations could benefit from the new trends.
The pandemic has changed how students, as well as professionals, can access
university education worldwide. Top universities across the world are available on
everyone’s computer. At the same time, the need for social and technological
development has never been as high as it is today and we expect that academic and
professional learning no longer is a one-off, it is a continuous and life-long journey.
During an interactive workshop, we will explore the future of education and co-ideate
ideas for how we need to develop education from both the professional and academic
perspective as well as how the interaction in between should evolute.
For the workshop, we have limited numbers of seats and the participants are required
to do a pre-workshop assignment of 1-2 hours. The outcome of this workshop will be
presented at the ICES Conference, planned to take place on October 28th.
Facilitator: Martin Karlsson, Atlas Copco
Agenda
09:00 Welcome + Coffee & Sandwich
09:30 Session 1
10:30 Quick Coffee
12:00 Lunch + Networking
13:00 Session 2
15:00 Coffee
16:00 Summary and wrap up

Sign up by sending an email to Tobias Vahlne, vahlne@kth.se

Virtual Coffee with an Expert – Cyber Security and ISO21434/27001
2021-06-23 15:00 - 16:30
On June 23, ICES will have a webinar about Cyber Security and ISO21434/27001. Cybersecurity is high on most company agendas but often combined with a feeling of helplessness due to the inherent complexity of the area. A reassurance to those concerned is that Cybersecurity is an old field of study, Information Security, applied to a new technological biome.
To support us in regaining a sense of Security there are several Standards to choose from. Within the field of IT, ISO 27001 has gained such acceptance that it is taking its natural place next to the established ISO 9001 and 14001. In its design and application, it follows the same layout and practical steps that ISO 9001 for Quality Control has applied for many decades.

One industry that for a long time was spared from Cybersecurity was the Automotive industry. Among the wreckage left behind the innovative tornado Elon Musk, an initiative is being introduced that will make sure that Cybersecurity isn’t forgotten during the development process: ISO 21434. To speed up the industry transition, the ISO standard has been flagged as a regulatory requirement for type certification of vehicles according to UNECE WP29, for newly introduced vehicles from 2022!

During this webinar, we will quickly pass through the background to Cybersecurity in Information Security, which aspects of Information we’re protecting, and what practical methods are available. Most of our time will be spent on the exciting landscape of Standards and what they mean for newly awoken Automotive Engineers.

The seminar will be done by Anders Dahlberg (Bunkai AB) who aims to share both information and reassurance!
The event will be held via Zoom. Please register via the RSVP Button below, to get the zoom link before the event starts.

16th Annual System of Systems Engineering Conference
2021-06-14 - 2021-06-16
IEEE System, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMC), in cooperation with the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), is organizing the 16th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE) to be held in Västerås (in the greater Stockholm region, Sweden.)
Systems of systems have vast ramifications in numerous engineering fields such as control, computing, communication, information technology and in applications such as manufacturing, defense, national security, aerospace, aeronautics, energy, environment, healthcare, and transportation. The conference theme is “Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems”. Papers on theories, methodologies, and applications of System of Systems Engineering in science, technology, industry, and education are welcome.
Place and time: Online from Västerås, Sweden, June 14-16 2021
More information here

Virtual Coffee with an Expert – Machine Learning over Wireless Internet of Things
2021-04-28 15:00 - 16:30
On April 28, KTH Professor Carlo Fischione from the division of network and systems engineering will hold a talk about Machine Learning over the Internet of Things and Embedded Wireless Devices.
The event will be held via Zoom and more information about the event will show up here. You can register for the event below, in order to get the zoom link before the event starts.

Link here: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/68472870259

Abstract:

In te current digital technological revolution—i.e., the “connected world” enabled by wireless Internet of Things (IoT) — IoT systems play a major role in generating data. Hence, it is natural to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in IoT to achieve the same success as in robotics, computer vision, speech, and text analysis. For example, in smart cities monitored by the wireless IoT, AI could greatly minimize vehicular energy consumption, reduce noise and environmental pollution, minimize accidents, and monitor drinking water with considerable health and production savings. In Industry 4.0, wireless IoT and AI are expected to improve production efficiency by order of magnitudes. More in general, AI can be used to operate wireless IoT networks, whereas wireless links could gather data or implement AI procedures distributively. However, to achieve all of this, we would need the luxury of abundant, clean, timely, and centrally collected data where automatic applications or network management decisions have to be taken; and adequate computational resources across most of the IoT network units. Is this realistic?
Unfortunately, the answer is no. In wireless IoT, data sets of any size and quality will be produced by distributed units (often embedded units), which may not be able to perform state-of-the-art AI computations and may not be able to share data over communication networks due to energy, computational and bandwidth limitations of the wireless communication channels and protocols, or even security and privacy concerns.
In fact, existing AI methods somehow applicable to wireless IoT are mostly intended for proprietary, high performing networks of processors (e.g., in data centers). They would greatly stress public wireless networks, particularly for dynamic retraining and inference. In short, AI in wireless communications suffers from a lack of fundamental theoretical understanding, which is exacerbated by the poor performance of existing AI when deployed in wireless IoT systems. Moreover, the successful application of AI in wireless IoT requires vast domain knowledge within information and communication theory. Hence, the mere use of state-of-the-art AI solutions borrowed from the fields of robotic, computer vision, or speech and text analysis will lead to inefficient implementations with mediocre performance unless we fundamentally advance AI for wireless IoT.
In this seminar, we highlight the need of establishing a new fundamental theory for machine learning over wireless IoT networks. We give an overview of the state-of-the-art and some of our recent developments.

Bio
Dr. Carlo Fischione is full Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Division of Network and Systems Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden. He is Director of the KTH-Ericsson Data Science Micro Degree Program directed to Ericsson globally, and global Chair of the IEEE Machine Learning for Communications Emerging Technologies Initiative. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Information Engineering (3/3 years) in May 2005 and the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering (Laurea, Summa cum Laude, 5/5 years) in April 2001, both from University of L’Aquila, Italy,
He has held research positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (2015, Visiting Professor); Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2015, Associate); and University of California at Berkeley, CA (2004-2005, Visiting Scholar, and 2007-2008, Research Associate). He is Honorary Professor at University of L’Aquila, Italy, Department of Mathematics, Information Engineering, and Computer Science.
His research interests include applied optimization, wireless, sensor networks, Internet of things, and machine learning. He has co-authored over 200 publications, including a book, book chapters, international journals and conferences, and international patents. He received a number of awards, such as the “IEEE Communication Society S. O. Rice” award for the best IEEE Transactions on Communications paper of 2018, the best paper award of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2007), the best paper awards at the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor System 05 and 09 (IEEE MASS 2005 and IEEE MASS 2009), the Best Paper Award of the IEEE Sweden VT-COM-IT Chapter (2014), the Best Business Idea awards from VentureCup East Sweden (2010) and from Stockholm Innovation and Growth (STING) Life Science in Sweden (2014), the “Ferdinando Filauro” award from University of L’Aquila, Italy (2003), the “Higher Education” award from Abruzzo Region Government, Italy (2004), the Junior Research award from Swedish Research Council (2007), and the “Silver Ear of Wheat” award in history from the Municipality of Tornimparte, Italy (2012).
He is Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications (Machine Learning for Communications area) and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications (Series on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking), and has been serving as Associated Editor of IFAC Automatica (2014-2019). Meanwhile, he also has offered his advice as a consultant to numerous technology companies such as ABB Corporate Research, Berkeley Wireless Sensor Network Lab, Ericsson Research, Synopsys, and United Technology Research Center. He is co-founder and scientific advisor of ELK.Audio. He is Member of IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), and Ordinary Member of DASP (the Italian academy of history Deputazione Abruzzese di Storia Patria).

Behind The Scene Seminar with Imsys - Empowering AI at the edge
2021-04-27 13:00 - 16:00
Previously AI and Machine Learning have been something taking place behind closed doors in data centers where it’s easy to provide a lot of computational power. Today, with all the new use cases, we want to have access to the strength of advanced AI in different distributed scenarios. It could be an autonomous vehicle, automatic entrance doors at a shopping mall, or in an application for monitoring the elderly. However, with the growing number of advanced sensors, your hardware needs to be optimized to handle the enormous amount of data generated every millisecond. Secondly, your hardware needs to handle all that data in a robust and energy-efficient way. Especially if your application is mission-critical and runs on a battery, like a self-driving car.
Together with Imsys we will, in this three-step seminar, give you a deep look under the hood of how to build and optimize AI hardware for different edge scenarios. The AI edge applications for the optimized hardware will be presented by Qamcom. Imsys is a Swedish-based designer, developer, and supplier of AI accelerators and networked control solutions. Qamcom is a Swedish AI technology to value service company.

April 27th, 2021
Session 1 starting 13:00 – The complexity of deploying AI in edge solutions.
Session 2 starting 14:30 – Optimize your hardware for advanced AI solutions.

Note: These two sessions will be held via ZOOM. A meeting URL will be distributed before the event.

MODPROD/OPenModelica 2021 Workshops
2021-02-02 - 2021-02-04
The Center for Model-Based Cyber-Physical Product Development (MODPROD) is an interdisciplinary research center at the Linköping University. The center involves a number of companies as well as researchers from the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) and the Department of Management and Engineering (IEI).
The mission of the MODPROD center is to conduct front-line applied research in model-based product development addressing problems such as shorter life cycles, higher demands on flexibility and quality, and shorter time-to-market from product design to production of finished products. This requires increased usage of software/hardware system modeling, life-cycle management, and simulation technology for virtual prototyping and model-based strategic planning.

15th MODPROD Workshop on Model-Based Cyber-Physical Product Development, February 3-4, 2021
13th OpenModelica Annual Workshop, February 2, 2021

The theme for this year: Digital engineering for a resource efficient and circular industry
Deadline for submissions of abstracts and draft presentations/papers: Nov 30, 2020
More information via this link.

Virtual Coffee with an Expert – Myoelectric prostheses
2020-12-09 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker: Helen Lindner
Date and time: December 9, 15:00-16:30
Helen Lindner is a senior lecturer in occupational therapy at Örebro University in Sweden. She has over 14 years of clinical experience working with people who have physical and cognitive impairments. Her PhD project (2013) was to develop a clinical assessment test for upper limb myoelectric prosthesis. One of her research interests is using eye-tracking technology and motion analysis to quantify and understand attention, visuospatial skill, cognitive load and body movements in upper limb myoelectric prosthesis users.
During her talk, she will be focusing on the learning of myoelectric arm prosthesis from a therapist perspective. She will talk about how a new prosthesis user becomes a skillful prosthesis user. She will talk about how therapists monitor the user’s progress in controlling the prosthesis and to help the prosthesis users achieve success with the right level and amount of training. She will use both examples of Standard Myo hands (two degrees of freedom) and multifunction hands (multiple degrees of freedom) during her talk.
This event will be held via Zoom. Zoom link here: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/64001908473

8th Scandinavian Conference on System and Software Safety
2020-11-24 08:00 - 2020-11-27 17:00
System and software safety in electronic systems is becoming increasingly central in many industries. Industries are heading towards more and more connected and advanced software-intensive systems. Many organization face the same kind of challenges and sharing experience is essential.
The conference is organized by Addalot and ICES (KTH) and has become the central meeting place for Scandinavian safety experts from different industries. It is an opportunity to share experiences and make new contacts. There will be a plenary overview part split on two days, and a second part with parallel sessions. The parallel sessions will be in depth workshops and tutorials about different challenges, techniques, standards and methods.
The second part includes parallel sessions with in-depth workshops and tutorials about different challenges, techniques, standards and methods. As for the previous years, we anticipate a healthy mixture of participants and presentations from different industries and academia.
For more information and registration follow this link.
This event will be held online.

The conference is sponsored by the KTH Platform on Digitization

Virtual Coffee with an Expert – Industrial systems autonomy enabled by Artificial Intelligence
2020-11-11 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker: Alf Isaksson, ABB AB
Date and time: November 11, 15:00-16:30
Abstract: In recent years there has been much media attention on advances in self-driving cars. For autonomous driving there are already established standards with levels from 0 to 5 describing the steps from completely manual operation to fully autonomous driving. Autonomous systems is, however, making much progress also in many other applications. Some of them, such as autonomous docking of ships, autonomous industrial robots or autonomous mining vehicles, will most likely reach higher levels of autonomy before we see self-driving cars widely used among the general public.
This talk will discuss industrial autonomous systems with a particular focus on one of the main enabling technologies, viz. the progress in artificial intelligence for industrial applications. We will argue that Industrial AI requires a combination of domain knowledge and data science. In order for an autonomous system to be able to handle unanticipated, or at least highly unusual, events machine learning on observed data only will not be sufficient. Therefore, a hybrid approach combining physical modeling and machine learning will be required.
Bio: Alf Isaksson received an MSc in Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Automatic Control, in 1983 and 1988 respectively, both from Linköping University, Sweden. After graduating he stayed at Linköping University until 1991 as an Assistant Professor. From 1991 to 1992 he spent one year as a Research Associate at The University of Newcastle, Australia. Returning to Sweden in 1992 Isaksson moved to the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, where eventually in 1999 he was promoted to full Professor.
In 2001 he made the shift from academic to industrial research and joined ABB Corporate Research in Västerås, Sweden. After a specialist career culminating in an appointment to Corporate Research Fellow in 2009, he from 2012 – July 2020 had multiple positions responsible for managing research inside ABB. For example from 2014-2019 he was funding and coordinating all Control research globally in ABB. He is now since August 2020 Corporate Research Fellow for Automation and Control.
Join us at 15:00 here: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/67137636099

Best practices to catalyze EU and industry collaborative research projects
2020-10-27 13:00
The aim of the workshop is to gather and discuss “best practices” for efficiently and effectively catalyzing new academia-industry collaborative research projects. A number of invited speakers will be sharing their experiences and we will be discussing these practices on how to improve efficiency in catalyzing collaborative research projects.

Please Register for the workshop following this link!

You are most welcomed to join this on-line workshop, arranged in collaboration between ICES (a KTH center), the KTH RSO, the KTH Digitalization platform and CASTOR (a KTH center), and supported by the Nordic academic network on industrial internet of things.
Today, researchers often write proposals with little coordination and synergies. For the more applied research proposals we are considering here, and in particular EU-projects, this requires industrial collaboration. Many researchers will spend time to in an uncoordinated fashion contact companies, typically at a late stage. Overall, the average success rates of proposals is known to be relatively low. At the same time, several organizations have developed successful practices for catalyzing projects. Examples of best practices include industrial networks, strategic collaborations, sharing of winning practices (including proposals), and the use of dedicated “proposal brokers”. The latter involves having dedicated roles/persons with a close tie to researchers, related (industry) networks and relevant EU funding bodies, in order to efficiently support a larger group of researchers.
Given this background, the workshop is organized to share and discuss more systematic approaches to increase the changes of creating collaborative (EU) research projects.
The workshop will have a bias towards experiences related to collaborative projects involving academia and industry, typically EU-projects. General information from the KTH RSO and an outlook towards Horizon Europe will also be provided.
Date and time: 2020-10-27 – 13.00-17.00
Venue: On-line!

Introduction and purpose of the workshop (Martin and Anna)
Short talks: Best practices to set-up EU and industry collaborative research projects (Each: 10 mins +5 min discussion)

Christine Morin – INRIA
Malin Rosqvist – PiiA (the strategic innovation program Processindustrial IT & Automation)
Martin Törngren – ICES center at KTH
Anton Fuchs – Virtual Vehicle research center

Leg stretch (10)
Follow up on best practices

Evaluators perspective (10+5 mins) – Monica Schofield – TUTECH
Panel discussion related to previous best practices (moderation and prepared questions) (30 mins)

Leg stretch (10)
KTH RSO perspectives: Anna Raask – KTH

Summary and outlook: Horizon Europe (10+5)
RSO support to proposals and projects, including strategy (10+5)

Discussions and next steps (30 mins)

Please Register for the workshop following this link!

ICES Online Thesis Fair
2020-10-07 13:00 - 16:00
Welcome to the yearly ICES thesis fair.
This is where the ICES member companies and the students looking for thesis projects meet. Companies and students can bring suggested thesis proposals. The thesis will always have to be approved by the responsible teacher before start.
Links to each meeting room;

Prevas
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Prevas ICES Fair pdf
Read more about the company
Atlas Copco
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Read more about Thesis at Atlas Copco
Knightec
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Knightec PDF ICES Fair
Read more about the company
ImSys
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ICES – Imsys thesis
During an afternoon every participating company will provide their own meeting URL that you as a student can go from one meeting room to another. There will be three scheduled presentation slots and plenty of time for discussions in between. All flyers and presentations will be made available to the students together with the meeting URL’s in advance of the event.
Practical Details for the Event

Date: Wednesday 7th of October 2020
Time: 13:00 – 16:00
Agenda for the 7th of October
13:00-13:10 First presentation slot
13:10-14:00 Student Interaction slot
14:00-14:10 Second presentation slot
14:10-14:30 Student Interaction slot
14:30-14:45 Coffee Break
14:45-15:00 Student Interaction slot
15:00-15:10 Third presentation slot
15:10-16:00 Student Interaction slot

Virtual Coffee with an Expert - Human-centered AI: challenges and opportunities
2020-09-30 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker: Iolanda Leite
On 30th September Associate Professor Iolanda Leite will have a talk for the ICES network.
As AI systems become ubiquitous in people’s lives, a long-standing barrier is a need for these systems to properly respond and adapt to people and to the complex social dynamics of different environments. In this talk, I will present current research on using AI to enable robots with the social capabilities that enable them to engage with people in real-world environments. I will also discuss limitations and opportunities of the state of the art of AI, arguing that an improved understanding of how these systems perceive, reason and act depending on their surrounding social context can lead to more natural and efficient interactions with people.
Iolanda Leite is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH. She holds a PhD in Information Systems and Computer Engineering from IST, University of Lisbon. Prior to joining KTH, she had postdoctoral appointments at Yale University and at Disney Research. Iolanda’s research interests are in the areas of artificial intelligence and human-robot interaction. Her goal is to develop social robots that can perceive, learn from and respond appropriately to people in real-world situations. She is PI of a Starting Grant from the Swedish Research Council (2018-2021), the recipient of a globally competitive Early Career Fellowship awarded by the Jacobs Foundation, and was recently awarded one of the individual grants by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research’s (SSF) Future Research Leaders program (2020-2025). She is the co-editor in chief of AI Matters, the newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI).

Join via Zoom at 15:00!
Link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66974429957

Virtual Coffee with an Expert - Hardware Acceleration for Deep Learning
2020-09-23 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker: Zhonghai Lu
On September 23, Prof. Zhonghai Lu will give a webinar about hardware acceleration for deep learning.
Deep learning has become the engine for a new wave of artificial intelligence which exerts a profound impact on computer science and engineering. However, deep learning is not only about smart algorithms and big data. It is also about computer hardware. This talk reviews the milestones in the development of deep learning and shows the huge potential of accelerating deep learning algorithms in specialized hardware fabric.
This event will be held via Zoom. Link for the event here: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/64422376062

Virtual Coffee with an Expert - ML in Embedded Systems
2020-09-16 15:00 - 16:30
Synchoros VLSI Design Style: A Solution for Post Moore Era
Speaker: Ahmed Hemani
On September 16th, Prof. Ahmed Hemani will give a webinar about the topic of using lego as inspiration for hardware centric designs for ML and high-performance embedded systems that are power/battery limited.
Abstract: In post Moore era, we will need to efficiently create fully customized complex machines that exploits all available technology options to go beyond what Moore’s law has been enabling us with. This would include use of memristor based computation in memory, plasmonics, 3D DRAM vauts combined with conventional CMOS. Conventional standard cell based design flows will not suffice to deal with such diversity and complexity. We propose a new design style called synchoros VLSI design style to replace standard cells based VLSI design flows. Synchoricity, derived from the Greek word choros for space is the spatial analog of synchronicity. In synchronicity, we discretize time to enable temporal composition by abutment. In synchoricity, we discretize space to enable spatial composition by abutment. Synchoros VLSI design style has been used to design Lego like bricks called SiLago that replaces conventional standard cells as the atomic building blocks. SiLago blocks compose by abutment to create valid ready-to-manufacture designs without the end-user having to do logic and physical synthesis. We show, how synchoros SiLago based platform can automate custom hybrid designs to cope with both diversity of technologies and also deal with extreme complexity.
Bio: Ahmed Hemani is Professor in Electronic Systems Design at School of ICT, KTH, Kista, Sweden. His current areas of research interests are massively parallel architectures and design methods and their applications to scientific computing and autonomous embedded systems inspired by brain. In past he has contributed to high-level synthesis – his doctoral thesis was the basis for the first high-level synthesis product introduced by Cadence called visual architect. He has also pioneered the Networks-on-chip concept and has contributed to clocking and low power architectures and design methods. He has extensively worked in industry including National Semiconductors, ABB, Ericsson, Philips Semiconductors, Newlogic. He has also been part of three start-ups.

This event will be held via Zoom. Register for the event below. A link to the meeting room will be sent out to attendees before the event starts.

Virtual Coffee with an Expert – AI in Cyber Security: Threat or Opportunity?
2020-08-26 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker: Tomas Olsson
Abstract:
Tomas Olsson, senior researcher from AI at RISE, will reflect upon AI in Cyber Security at a webinar with RISE and ICES on 26th August.
Cyber Security is of ever-increasing importance in a digitalized society and the usage of AI is becoming more and more common. What role will AI play in this? Can AI be used as a tool for increased Cyber Security in a wide range of aspects or can it become to be used as a new way to steal data? Learn more about this at the webinar in which Tomas Olsson will discuss these questions. Some recent research results within the area will be discussed such as the usage of automatic malware classification and using AI to crack and protect cryptography.
This event will be held via Zoom. Register for the event below. A link to the meeting room will be sent out to attendees before the event starts.

Virtual Coffee with an Expert - Reinforcement learning with probabilistic safety guarantees
2020-06-17 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker: Jana Tumová
Abstract:
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful approach to decision making under uncertainty. However, it is often difficult to validate the resulting policy with high confidence. In this talk, we overview a recently popular two-step approach to safe reinforcement learning: in the first step, formal verification identifies the set of actions that guarantee safety with desired probability, and the second step integrates this into RL algorithm to constrain the exploration of the agent. Probabilistic guarantees thus get transferred to the trained policy during training and execution. We will discuss our results in problems inspired by urban autonomous driving involving multiple traffic participants, where desired safety properties are expressed in linear temporal logic (LTL). We will demonstrate in simulation of an unsignalized intersection that the resulting policy exhibits strong safety guarantees and scales well.
This event will be held via Zoom. Register for the event below. A link to the meeting room will be sent out to attendees before the event starts.
Zoom link here: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66805342181

Postponed to 2021 - 2020 Swedish Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems
2020-06-08 - 2020-06-12
The summer school is postponed to 2021 due to Covid-19 outbreak.
The Swedish Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) brings together leaders from industry and academia to introduce researchers to current hot topics in the area. The summer school is arranged by Halmstad University and KTH, and is aimed at professionals from the industry and academia, including doctoral students.

Dates: June 8–12, 2020
Place: Halmstad University, room Himmel, floor 22 in H Building
Registration: The last day of registration is May 15, 2020
Registration for the Swedish Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems 2020

Virtual Coffee with an Expert - Automated driving trends and directions for safety – impressions from Silicon Valley and multiple industrial events
2020-04-28 15:00 - 16:30
To join meeting use the following link
https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/66682591782
Meeting ID: 666 8259 1782

Abstract:
At the Mechatronics division at KTH we address challenges posed by future Cyber-Physical Systems and specifically
with their incarnation in terms of various types of automated machines including highly Automated Vehicles (AVs).
In research we are interested in questions like;
– what makes a compelling, comprehensible and valid safety case for a highly automated vehicle?
– what makes an appropriate reference architecture for AVs that could be instantiated for different types of AVs, providing capabilities to ensure cost-efficient risk reduction and the right balance between availability/safety
– what represents an appropriate methodology for model-based evaluation of highly automated vehicles?

With these questions as a starting point, this talk will provide

a view on trends in AV safety and architecting with impressions from recent industrial meetings and conferences (including OSS.5 and The Autonomous),
an overview and glimpses of ongoing research at the Mechatronics division at KTH on automated vehicle safety, including

an update on the AD-EYE simulation platform
ongoing work in system formalization to support verification, with recent findings from a survey of methods to derive critical scenarios,
safety supervisor architectures, from functional safety concepts to technical architectures

General meeting on-line and postponed kick-off for the new KTH Center for Trustworthy Edge Computing Systems and Applications (TECoSA)
2020-03-26 14:00 - 19:00 | KTH Campus, Drottning Kristinas väg, Stockholm, 11428, Sweden
The open part of the kick-off is cancelled due to Corona-virus.
The general meeting will instead be conducted on-line.
Welcome to contact martint@kth.se for questions!
TECoSA is the new long term KTH-based Vinnova competence centre on Trustworthy Edge Computing Systems and Applications. Current Cyber-Physical Systems already contain embedded systems and are largely connected to the cloud. Edge computing systems here represent the novel ingredient. TECoSA is a multidomain research centre focusing on challenges related to how to make future AI and edge-based systems trustworthy, predictable, safe and secure.
You are most welcome to join the kick-off for TECoSA and learn more about this new centre, which has close ties to ICES.
Mandatory registration: https://www.kth.se/form/5e561f45e09bc651e485e272
Venue: Salongen KTHB – address: Osquars backe 31, KTH main campus (Valhallavägen) – close to the T-bana
Agenda for the open part of the kick-off (proceeded by a members meeting):

14.00: TECoSA open kick-off

Overview of the TECoSA initiative and targeted challenges, Martin Törngren, KTH
Invited talks and panel: Industrial and scientific perspectives to trustworthy edge-computing systems and applications

Artificial Intelligence for Telecom and beyond, Dr Rafia Inam, Senior Project Manager in Research Area AI
Research perspectives to Edge computing, Prof. Erik Elmroth, Umeå Universitet
Panel debate with industrial and academic participants

16.30: Mingle with refreshments!

More information: https://www.tecosa.center.kth.se/ (web page under construction!)
Welcome!

Inspirational Talk by Edward Lee
2020-03-12 14:00 - 15:30 | M2, Brinellvägen 64, Brinellvägen 64, Stockholm, Sweden
*** Please Note: The event has moved to a new venue. Room M3, Brinellvägen 64 ***
Edward A. Lee, Professor of the Graduate School and Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, will join us for an Inspirational talk. Professor Lee’s research group studies cyber-physical systems, which integrate physical dynamics with software and networks. His focus is on the use of deterministic models as a central part of the engineering toolkit for such systems. He has led the development of several influential open-source software packages, notably Ptolemy and its various spinoffs.

About the talk
Using Time and Timestamps for Deterministic Distributed Software
Concurrent and distributed software based on publish-and-subscribe, actors, and service-oriented architectures are sometimes used to realize distributed cyber-physical systems. Broadly, these mechanisms compose software components that have private state and communicate with each other via message passing and/or remote procedure calls. However, the underlying mechanisms are less deterministic than they could be, and for some cyber-physical systems, the resulting unpredictability is debilitating. In this talk, I described some simple challenge problems that are common in distributed cyber-physical systems and extremely difficult to solve using any of these methods. I offer an alternative model of computation that we call “reactors” that solves these problems simply and elegantly and that is able to leverage decades of results from the real-time systems community. The reactors model is being implemented in a coordination language called Lingua Franca, which extends messages with logical timestamps that provide a semantic ordering. By leveraging synchronized clocks, an efficient distributed implementation guarantees determinacy when network latencies and clock synchronization error remain below assumed bounds.

Book your seat below!

Conference Room: M3, Brinellvägen 83

CwE - Edge Computing
2020-02-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Conference Room Gladan, Brinellvägen 85, Stockholm, Sweden
James Gross will talk about edge computing and where TeCOsa will fit in. Please register by RSVP below.

Competence group R&D Managers
2020-01-22 09:00 - 13:00 | KTH Mechatronic, Brinellvägen 83 Room B242, Brinellvägen 83, Stockholm, Sweden
This is a meeting in the Competence group R&D Managers where specially invited representatives from gold and silver members meet and discuss relevant topics. This time Ingemar Jansson from Cybercom talked about “Making sustainability investments lead to business-value!”
Link to presentation below.
20200122 Föreläsning ICES R&D nätverk
