Martin Törngren
Embedded control systems, model-based engineering, tool integration and architecture design
Professor
Phone: +46 8 790 63 07
E-mail: martin@md.kth.se
Visiting address: Brinellvägen 83
Embedded Control Systems research group
Research
My research interests are in the areas of Mechatronics and Embedded systems, and in particular with
- Distributed control systems, and codesign of control systems and embedded computer systems
- Model based development, model and tool integration/interoperability
- Architectures for embedded systems and
- Design methodology
See the above link for more information about research projects in these areas and my research group.
A large body of the research is carried out in cooperative projects with international research groups and industry (today with an emphasis on the automot ive and automation industries, and tool developers).
The research addresses the following system aspects: Safety, reliability, performance, cost and flexibility.
You are welcome to contact me if you are interested in opportunities in this area (MSc thesis, research, evaluations, problem discussions).
Teaching
I am involved in the following courses:
- Embedded systems (I and II)
- Mechatronics and Embedded systems capstone course
- Master science thesis projects supervision
- PhD level courses. These are today given in an aperiodic fashion (for more information see the group home page).
- Continued education for industry (http://www.kth.se/itm/centra/ices/embedded-systems-education?l=en_UK).
I also have the pleasure of supervising the following PhD students:
- Matthias Biehl (Lic. of Technology)
- Thilo Friedrich (Industrial PhD student, Maxlab)
- Tahir Naseer (Lic. of Technology)
- Magnus Persson (Lic. of Technology)
- Anders Sandberg (Industrial PhD student, Mecel)
- Richard Svenningsson (Industrial PhD student, SP)
- Jimmy Kjellsson (Industrial PhD student, ABB)
- Sagar Behere
- Fredrik Asplund
Curriculum Vitae
Short and full CV including a list of publications:
Publications
All publications by Martin Törngren in DiVA
The publications are listed in my CV. Most of the publications are available for download over the web through DIVA (http://kth.diva-portal.org/) or on-line databases.
Brief bio
Martin Törngren studied Mechanical Enginenering with a specialization in Mechatronics at KTH. After completing his Masters (Civ. Ing) in 1987 he began as a teacher at KTH, developing and giving courses in Mechatronics and Embedded systems. He was then offered a PhD student position which resulted in a dissertation in 1995: "Modeling and design of distributed real-time control applications". Since this area was then not very developed, the time as a PhD student included networking and creating PhD student courses. Examples of such activities included starting the interests groups on "Distributed control" and the "Swedish Transputers users group". In 1992 Martin Törngren participated in the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Real-time computing. After his dissertation, Martin Törngren co-founded the company Fengco Real-time Control AB, specializing in advanced tools for developers of embedded control systems and related consultancy.
The following period, 1996-1999, was dedicated to building up a research group in the area of embedded control systems within the division of Mechatronics at KTH. During 1998, Martin Törngren, spend 0,5 year as a post-doc at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. He was appointed Professor at KTH for the new chair in Embedded Control Systems in 2002. Through 2006 to 2007 Martin initiated a new network and centre at KTH in collaboration with industry. This resulted in the inauguration of ICES - the Innovative Centre for Embedded Systems in 2008.
Martin Törngrens main tasks today include:
- Research in the above mentioned areas.
- Leading the Embedded control systems research group including supervision of PhD students.
- Managing and carrying out research in several projects such as ATESST2, CESAR and iFEST.
- Directing the KTH centre for Embedded systems - ICES.
- Education (see above)
2007 to March 2011 he was a member of the KTH faculty board.
