4th Colloquium of the Field of Expertise "Information, Communication & Computing"

Invited Lecture by Prof. Karl Henrik Johansson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)

Type

Andere Veranstaltungsart

Topic

Information Communication & Computing (Field of Expertise)

There is a growing deployment of large-scale control systems interacting over wired and wireless networks in application domains such as automated transportation, energy distribution, and industrial automation. For these cyber-physical control systems, the traditional paradigm of synchronous and periodic sensing, actuation, and communication between network nodes is often not realistic because of limited resources, scalability issues, and constraints imposed by implementation platforms. Within the framework of the "4th Colloquium of the Field of Expertise (FoE) Information, Communication & Computing" Prof. Karl Henrik Johansson from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, will give a lecture about "New control and networking paradigms for cyber-physical systems“. In this talk, we will discuss novel ideas and results on how to tackle some of these challenges by adopting event-based sensing and control. Motivated by ongoing projects with Swedish industry on truck platooning, cloud control of underwater vehicles, and wireless process control, we will show that some of the underlying research questions have immediate practical implications. We will argue that the general problem of jointly optimizing control and networking resources leads to interesting insights about suitable architectures for these systems. The talk is based on joint work with several collaborators. You are kindly invited to participate in the fourth Colloquium of the FoE "Information, Communication & Computing".

About Karl Henrik Johansson

Karl Henrik Johansson is Director of the Stockholm Strategic Research Area ICT The Next Generation and Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He received MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lund University. He has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Caltech, NTU, HKUST Institute of Advanced Studies, and NTNU. His research interests are in networked control systems,cyber-physical systems, and applications in transportation, energy, and automation. He is a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors and the European Control Association Council. He has received several best paper awards and other distinctions, including a ten-year Wallenberg Scholar Grant, a Senior Researcher Position with the Swedish Research Council, the Future Research Leader Award from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, and the triennial Young Author Prize from IFAC. He is Fellow of the IEEE and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.