ICES

Virtual Coffee with an Expert - ML in Embedded Systems
2020-09-16 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Stockholm)
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.

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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

CWE - Simulation for Automated Driving
2020-01-16 15:00 - 16:30 | KTH Mechatronic, Brinellvägen 83 Room B242, Brinellvägen 83, Stockholm, Sweden
Speaker: José Manuel Gaspar SánchezAbstract: In the presentation, we will talk about the Simulation for automated vehicles (AV) and the state of the art platform KTH has developed. Designing and verifying AV’s requires an effective integration of multiple models and tools. Jose will cover the modular AD-EYE platform which integrates open source software and commercial tools to support architecture and algorithm design and verification for AV’s. Current developments include for example a methodology for elicitation of critical scenarios, fault-injection and test automation, and deployment of the same control software on the KTH research concept vehicle (for which type approval is currently applied for). Finally, we will go through the future plans for both, the development and the usage of the platform.The platform is receiving increased attention, see this news article.
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Pizza with an Engineer - Atlas Copco
2019-12-11 17:30 - 19:30 | KTH Mechatronic, Brinellvägen 83 Room B242, Brinellvägen 83, Stockholm, Sweden
“Pizza with an Engineer” is an initiative for ICES members (with silver and gold membership) to meet selected students from KTH after school hours. Students are given the opportunity to get to know a specific company and its culture. The focus of the meeting is to get an in depth understanding of the challenges of their future career. Invites will be sent out by ICES student representatives to students in question and registrations will also be handle by ICES student representatives. Host of this December event is Atlas Copco.

ICES/Hi2OT workshop on iIoT Roadmaps
2019-11-27 17:00 - 2019-11-28 18:00 | KTH Mechatronic, Brinellvägen 83 Room B242, Brinellvägen 83, Stockholm, Sweden
What is happening in IIoT, AI and Fog computing now and in the future.

We want to welcome Hi2OT and ICES Members to this one-day workshop on iIOT roadmaps. We will also cover related roadmaps within AI and Fog Computing. We will start off with a nice dinner on Wednesday the 27th. The topics for the workshop will cover trends and roadmaps within IIoT, AI and Fog Computing combined with funding opportunities and EC frameworks and initiatives.

Martin Törngren and Paul Pop will facilitate the workshop with support from our keynote speaker Haydn Thomson. Haydn will, based on his experience and insights when it comes to ongoing and future initiatives, give an overview of the existing and upcoming industry and EC frameworks. The purpose of the workshop is to develop a synthesis of the presented roadmaps based on the views of the participants. Haydn Thomson is an entrepreneur as well as an adjunct Prof. and is working closely with the EC. He was also a partner of the CPSoS project.Why you should joinFresh insights on current roadmaps and agendas on IIoT, AI and Edge/Fog computing packed with;– Insights into Horizon Europe – the next EU framework program– Insights into research perspectives from the top Nordic technical universities in these areas– Meetings with peers to discuss joint research opportunities and collaboration– Developing a synthesis based on the views presented (including existing roadmaps) for follow-up actions

This workshop is open to members of the Hi2OT project and the ICES Industry Network.

Program

Wednesday November 27thDinner and social activities starting at 19:00

Thursday November 28th 8:00-9:00 Morning Coffee and networking 9:00-9:20 Introduction by Paul Pop and Martin Törngren 9:20-10:00 First Presentation 10:00-10:30 Coffee break 10:30-11:30 Presentation on IIoT roadmaps – Haydn Thomson 11:30-12:00 Introduction to the Workshop – Martin Törngren 12:00-13:00 Lunch and poster session 13:00-13:30 Setting the scene – 5 min Presentations-Paul Pop, DTU-Martin Törngren, KTH-Michael Berger, DTU-Vesa Hirvisalo, Aalto-Amund Skavhaug, NTNU-Flavius Gruian, LTH-Erik Larsson, LTH13:30-15:30 Workshop Session. Coffee and Swedish fika will be served during this session15:30-16:30 Presentation of workshop outcome

Sigup by click the button “Going” below. Last day for signing up is Friday 22nd of November.

Pizza with an Engineer SAAB
2019-11-18 17:00 - 19:00 | KTH Campus, Drottning Kristinas väg, Stockholm, 11428, Sweden
“Pizza with an Engineer” is an initiative for ICES members (with silver and gold membership) to meet selected students from KTH after school hours. Students are given the opportunity to get to know a specific company and its culture. The focus of the meeting is to get an in depth understanding of the challenges of their future career. Invites will be sent out by ICES student representatives to students in question and registrations will also be handle by ICES student representatives. Host of this Novembery event is Saab.

Embedded Conference Scandinavia 2019
2019-11-05 08:00 - 2019-11-06 17:00 | Kistamässan, Arne Beurlings Torg 5, Kista, 16440, Sweden
ICES will be represented at ECS-2019

The 7th Scandinavian Conference on System and Software Safety
2019-10-22 08:30 - 2019-10-23 17:00 | Spårvagnshallarna, Birger Jarlsgatan 57A, Stockholm, 11381, Sweden
System and software safety in electronic systems is becomingincreasingly central in many industries and indeed as part ofoften critical societal infrastructure. The systems become evermore complex, connected and autonomous and the software continues to grow. This poses many challenges even for matureorganizations, requiring approaches that go beyond establishedbest practices.

The Scandinavian conference on safety critical systems andsoftware has become a central meeting place for Scandinaviansafety experts from industry, public and academic organizations.It is an opportunity to share experiences and make new contacts.The conference features a first day with distinguished keynotes,industrial and research presentations, followed by a second dayof parallel workshops, advanced presentations and tutorialsabout different challenges, techniques, standards and methods.At the end of the first day the conference dinner providesopportunities to establish further contacts among the participants.

Coffee with an Expert - How to let IPR elevate your R&D Projects
2019-10-11 14:00 - 15:30 | KTH Mechatronic, Brinellvägen 83 Room B242, Brinellvägen 83, Stockholm, Sweden
Join us for this inspiring seminar on how to let IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) become a game changer instead of a time consuming hassle. Niclas Uggla and Magdalena Jerner from Zacco will talk about IPR from an design and development perspective, with the engineer and entrepreneur in mind.

Fika will be ordered, please register asap!

ICES Thesis fair
2019-10-02 12:00 - 15:00 | Conference Room Gladan, Brinellvägen 85, Stockholm, Sweden
Welcome to the ICES degree project fair! We welcome students from Embedded systems, Mechatronics, and Systems control and robotics to come and meet our member companies and see what they have to offer. Some companies may have prepared degree projects to apply to while others are open to suggestions.

An opportunity for students/companies to meet and discuss degree projects. A light lunch (Wrap) will be served.

Member companies wishing to participate register with Johanna Olsson at joo2@kth.se, students will be invited separately.

ICES AI competence group meeting
2019-09-19 12:30 - 15:00 | Solna, 169 99 Solna, Sweden
September 19th ICES AI comptence group will hold it´s second meeting. The topic of the meeting will be ”Current trends of Applied AI and data Sciences”. The meeting will start with a light lunch, and after that one hour presentation from KTK and the second hour interactive discussions.

The meeting will start with a light lunch, and after that one hour presentation from KTK, where we will have Prof. Zhonghai Lu from the KTH EECS school talking about “Hardware Acceleration for Deep Learning”. The second hour we will have interactive discussions. This is an event in the AI group. Invited members in this group are employees of gold and silver member companies.

ICES Testing on model-based testing
2019-09-17 16:00 - 19:00 | KTH Mechatronic, Brinellvägen 83 Room B242, Brinellvägen 83, Stockholm, Sweden
Welcome to the ICES testing competence group meeting

Schedule

16:00 – 17:00 ICES Testing Group meeting

17:00 – 18:00 PresentationsPart 1: Cyrille Artho: Challenges and opportunities in model-based testingPart 2: Hojat Khosrowjerdi: Learning-based testing for co-operating cyber-physical systems-of-systems

18:00 – 19:00 Networking and mingle

Registration

7th Nordic Systems Engineering Autumn Tours 2019
2019-09-16 09:00 - 17:00 | Conference Room Gladan, Brinellvägen 85, Stockholm, Sweden
In Stockholm the NoSE seminar is arranged by INCOSE Sweden and ICES – The Innovative Center for Embedded Systems at KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, will host NOSE 2019.

Workshop on SOTIF and functional safety concept for ADAS and automated driving
2019-08-30 13:00 - 17:00 | Conference Room Gladan, Brinellvägen 85, Stockholm, Sweden
It has already been an agreement that ISO 26262 is insufficient for the functional safety of ADAS and automated driving systems due to the introduction of AI into automotive embedded systems. As a compensation, SOTIF finally released its first version early this year. The purpose of this workshop is to collect safety experts from OEMs, suppliers and academia to discuss on the following questions.How does SOTIF compensate ISO 26262?How should we adopt SOTIF to improve the functional safety concept of ADAS and automated driving systems in terms of architecture and development methodology? Is SOTIF enough? How should SOTIF be improved?

13:00 – 13:10 Introduction to the workshop Xinhai Zhang, KTHSession 1, Invited PresentationsEach presentation takes 40 minutes followed by 10 minutes Q&A13:10 – 14:00 Automotive functional safety with ISO 26262 and 21448 Anders Sandberg, Aptiv SE14:00 – 14:50 Electric Site Project Functional Safety? SOTIF? Stephan Baumgart, Volvo ConstructionFIKA Break & Discussion Topics Voting (20 min)Session 2, Word Café DiscussionEach discussion takes 50 minutes.15:10 – 16:00 Discussion Round 116:00 – 16:50 Discussion Round 216:50 – 17:00 Discussion Wrap up Each table owner summarizes the discussion with around 5 minutes.

Coffee with an Expert
2019-06-30 08:00 - 17:00 | KTH Mechatronic, Brinellvägen 83 Room B242, Brinellvägen 83, Stockholm, Sweden
Test Event
