64 million SEK grant to the EE School
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, (SSF) is giving two projects at the School of Electrical Engineering grants of a total of 64 million SEK. The projects are led by Dimos Dimarogonas and Karl-Henrik Johansson. In total, KTH received almost a quarter of a billion SEK from the SSF for research within smart systems and materials science.
In SFFs call for research within smart systems and material science, KTH received grants for eight projects. KTH has previously not received grants of this magnitude from SSF.
Dimos Dimarogonas and Karl-Henrik Johansson, both from the department of Automatic Control, received 32 million SEK each for their respective research projects. Dimos Dimarogonas research will focus on the interaction between humans and robots.
“Within COIN we will develop human-in-the-loop control algorithms with the main novelty being the bidirectionality and adaptability of the approach”, says Dimarogonas. “In particular, we will develop decision making tools that will (i) give advices to the user on how to adapt instructions he/she gives to the robot based on how the robot fulfilled the previous instructions and (ii) control the robot in a real-time manner so that it updates its plan in order to satisfy user instructions in a manner that is progressively improving given the previous level of satisfaction. The research will build on novel techniques fusing elements from robust control, formal verification and human-in-the-loop robotics.”
The EE School is also represented in Uppsala university’s project ”Automating System SpEcific Model-Based Learning – ASSEMBLE” through Joakim Jaldén from the department of Signal Processing.
About the projects
Project: COIN: Co-adaptive human-robot interactive systems
Grant: 32 000 000 SEK
Recipient: Dimos Dimarogonas, Associate Professor
Description: The goal of the project is to evolve a frame work for safer, effective and socially acceptable behavior for robots and the interaction between humans and robots. Among other things, this involves methods for robot control under uncertain conditions and short term adjustments in the physical and verbal interactions between human and robot.
Project: SoPhy:Large-scale cyber physical transport systems
Grant: 32 000 000 SEK
Recipient: Karl Henrik Johansson, professor
Description: The transport sector is currently going through a large change due to the introduction of self-driving and electrical vehicles and new sensors and communication technology. The purpose of this project is to evolve new modelling and analyzing tools to improve the understanding for the systematic design of the cyber physical transport network. The transport network will make it possible for a number of new services and systems based on coordinated information flows, vehicles and people. The results will be implemented and evaluated in a unique demo environment.