Martin Törngren

Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems

My research interests are in the areas of Mechatronics, Cyber-physical systems (CPS), and systems engineering, and in particular with
- Architectures and design methodologies for autonomous and connected cyber-physical systems,
- System and functional safety, and trade-offs with other system properties, extending to trustworthiness of autonomous machines and systems of systems,
- Sustainability, circular economy and Innovation eco-systems,
- Distributed control systems, codesign of control and embedded computer systems,
- Life-long learning and education in CPS.

You are most welcome to contact me if you are interested in opportunities in this area, for example regarding internships, MSc thesis projects, research, evaluations, problem discussions etc.

I regularly have open positions. Likely to come up shortly - postdoc positions on trustworthy cyber-physical systems. Welcome to contact me beforehand if you are interested.

For a short bio and CV - see the bottom of this page.

Highlights:

• We will be hosting the 44th SafeComp international conferenceat the KTH campus in September 2025! Consider to submit one of the possible forms of papers; regular, experience report, workshop paper and position paper!
• During 2025 several postdoc positions will be open. Check TECoSA and Digital Futures!
• 2025 is a year of dissertations!
  • Jan. 24th! A new doctor! - Dr Lifei Tang!
  • March 12th - A new doctor! - Dr. Magnus Gyllenhammar!
  • June 18! Dissertation scheduled for José Manuel Gaspar Sánchez!
• The TECoSA center received a highly positive half-time evaluation just before summer - read more here! - and has now transitioned into its 2nd phase with emphasis on the following themes (www.tecosa.center.kth.se)
• Many recent publications - see here!  Some special highlights:
  • Digital Technologies for a Sustainable Nordic Future: Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Implications.August 2023. Article in “Fast Track to Vision 2030”, NordForsk. Accessible at Fast Track to Vision 2030 (diva-portal.org)
  • Paper highlighted in IEEE Computer:Adding Cyberphysical Systems to the Engineering Education “Pi”
  • Position paper on "Trends, Drivers, and Strategic Directions for Trustworthy Edge Computing in Industrial Applications", see here (published in the IncoseINSIGHT Dec. 2022 issueon theArchimedes Initiative

  • Xinhai Zhang et al.Finding Critical Scenarios for Automated Driving Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study.IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, April 2022.

  • Martin Törngren et al.: Industrial Edge-based Cyber-Physical Systems - application needs and concerns for realization (preprint; link to IEEE).Proc. of ACM Symp. on Edge Computing Workshop on Trustworthy Edge Computing, Dec. 2021

  • Martin Törngren.Cyber-physical systems have far-reaching implications(link to this article). In M. Duranton et al., editors. HiPEAC Vision 2021, pages 12-19, Jan 2021.

  • The role of competence networks in the era of Cyber-Physical Systems - Promoting knowledge sharing and knowledge exchange, Dec. issue of IEEE Design & Test, 2020 with several paper on CPS education.

Check out our AD-EYEtestbed environment for automated driving evaluation, emphasizing safety and architectures.

Courses developed over the past 5 years:

• Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) - understanding and acting in a sociotechnical shift

• Cyber-Physical Systems' Safety and Cybersecurity

• Tutorial and State of the Art Course in topical areas related to TECoSA - including on Trustworthiness

Further info:

• The paper, ‘Current status and advancement of cyber-physical systems in manufacturing’, co-authored with Lihui Wang and Maoro Onori, published October 2015, was awarded the Best Paper Award for 2020 by the Journal of Manufacturing Systems(JMS).
• Other various info including papers on CPS complexity and my previous CPS blog:
  • Martin Törngren & Paul Grogan (2018):How to Deal with the Complexity of Future Cyber-Physical Systems? - online (open access) here:http://www.mdpi.com/2411-9660/2/4/40/ht
  • Martin Törngren & Ulf Sellgren (2018).Complexity Challenges in Development of Cyber-Physical Systems. In: Lohstroh M., Derler P., Sirjani M. (eds) Principles of Modeling. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10760. Springer, Cham. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95246-8_27
  • Martin Törngren et. al (2018).Architecting Safety Supervisors for High Levels of Automated Driving. 21st Int. Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC).
  • Some further papers:https://www.kth.se/en/itm/inst/mmk/forskning/mekatronik-och-inbyggda-styrsystem/publikatione

Key research projects in these areas currently center on safety engineering and architecting of highly automated cyber-physical systems, model-based engineering and trustworthy edge computing systems. Our research is typically carried out in cooperative projects with international research groups and industry.

The research spans technology, processes and organization, where architecture, safety engineering, automation and model-based engineering form the red threads. Key properties of interest include safety, robustness, performance, cost, evolvability and autonomy, including trade-offs between these aspects.

PhD students:

I have the pleasure of supervising the following PhD students:

- Naveen Mohan (Lic) (main supervisor; affiliated WASP student)
- Rakesh Jayaprakash (main supervisor; industrial PhD student with Scania)
- Ahmad Terra (main supervisor; supervised together with Elena Fersman and Rafia Inam, industrial PhD student with Ericsson, Wasp)
- José Manuel Gaspar Sánchez  (main supervisor, co-supervisor - Jana Tumova)
- Rusyadi Ramli (co- supervisor, main supervisor: Fredrik Asplund)
- Sina Borrami (main supervisor; industrial PhD student Alstom)

Research engineers:
- Peter Telkes and Michal Tomaszuk

Post-docs:

- Timam Ghosh (TADDO2 and TECoSA), Pengcheng Wu (ENTICE) and Mattia Gianotti (NEXSoS)

Visitors:

- Dr. Marcus Nolte, TU-BS

PhD alumni:
- Dr. Magnus Gyllenhammar (Zenseact/Volvo Cars)
- Dr. Lifei Tang (Atlas Copco Industrial Technique)
- Dr. Masoumeh Parseh (Einride)
- Dr. Lars Svensson (Nordic Forestry Automation)
- Dr. Xinhai Zhang (Scania)
- Dr. Didem Gurdur (Assistant professor, UU)
- Dr. Jinzhi Lu  (currently postdoc at EPFL)
- Dr. Thilo Friedrich (ESSS)
- Dr. Jonas Westman (Scania)
- Dr. Sagar Behere (Fortellix)
- Dr. Fredrik Asplund (Associate Professor at KTH)
- Dr. Magnus Persson (Councillor, Solna community)
- Dr. Matthias Biehl (SME in Switzerland)
- Dr. Kristian Sandström (RISE ABB)
- Dr. Ola Redell (Retotech, formerly Maquet)
- Dr. Martin Sanfridson (RISE)
- Dr. DeJiu Chen (Associate Prof at KTH)
- Dr. Ola Larses (Alfa Laval)
- Dr. Jad El-Khoury (Lynxwork)
- Dr. Carl-Johan Sjöstedt (AFRY)
- Lic. of Technology JianLin Shi (Huawei)
- Dr. Tahir Naseer (HIAB)
- Dr. Diana Malvius (Syntell)
- Dr. Niklas Adamsson (Accenture)
- Lic. of Technology Rickard Svenningsson (SP)

Post-doc alumni:
- Dr. Xinhai Zhang
- Dr. Binbin Lian
- Lola Masson, LAAS, Toulouse
- Dr. Fredrik Asplund
- Dr. Sofia Cassel, Scania
- Dr. Frederic Loiret
- Dr. Lei Feng
- Dr. Saad Bin-Abib
- Dr. Viacheslav Izosimov
- Dr. Yunjin Gu (involved in the Juggling robot project)

Martin TörngrenCurriculum Vitae

Brief bio:Martin Törngren is a Professor in Embedded Control Systems at the Mechatronics division of the KTH Department of Engineering Design since 2002. He has particular interest in Cyber-Physical Systems, architectural design, system safety, model based engineering, and co-design of control applications and embedded systems. He has authored/co-authored more than 150 peer reviewed publications, and also been in charge of developing and leading both graduate and continued education courses, as well as the development of new/renewed master programs. He spent time as a post-doc at the EU-JRC, did a 10 month sabbatical 2011/12 at UC Berkeley, a 2 month sabbatical in the spring 2018 at Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey)  - followed by a 2 month sabbatical again at UC Berkeley in the fall of 2018. In 1996 he co-founded the company Fengco Real-time Control AB, specializing in advanced tools for developers of embedded control systems and related consultancy. In 1994 he received the SAAB-Scania award for qualified contributions in distributed control systems, and in 2004 the ITEA achievement award 2004 for contributions in the EAST-EEA project. He served as the technical coordinator of the international iFEST ARTEMIS project with 21 partners (2010-2013).

Networking and multidisciplinary research have been characteristic throughout his career. From 1999-2004 he served as the Chairman of the Swedish real-time systems association, and he has represented KTH as a core partner in the EU networks of excellence in Embedded systems design, Artist2 and ArtistDesign, and in the Artemis industrial association. He is moreover the principal initiator of the Innovative Centre for Embedded Systems (www.ices.kth.se), launched in 2008 (and served as its director until 2020), and is the director of the TECoSA Swedish national competence center on Trustworthy Edge Computing Systems and Applications.