Lund University, Dept Automatic Control, PO Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden Visitor address: Ole Römers väg 1, Office M5145 Phone: +46 46 222 87 91 Fax:  +46 46 13 81 18 Rolf.Johansson@control.lth.se
Rolf Johansson Professor Department of Automatic Control, LTH Lund University

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Research

My Research Activities:

• System Modeling and Identification
• Nonlinear Systems and Robotics
• Multivariable and Adaptive Control
• Vestibular and Neurophysiological Research
• Research in Cardiology
• Biographical details

• Systems, Signals & Control
• Nonlinear Systems and Robotics
• Automotive Systems
• Biomathematics

Robotics Laboratory

Research Projects

• DIAdvisor—Personal Glucose Predictive Diabetes Advisor—Integrated project funded under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), IST, (Ref. FP7 IST-216592 DIAdvisor);
• Hybrid Control: Taming Heterogeneity and Complexity of Networked Embedded Systems (HYCON)   —Network of Excellence;
• Inducing Stable Oscillations in Nonlinear Systems by Feedback (in cooperation with Prof. A. Shiriaev, Umeå University), Swedish Research Council 2006-2008, Ref. 2005-4182;
• Active Control of Compressor Systems Based on New Methods of Nonlinear Dynamic Feedback Stabilization (in cooperation with Prof. A. Shiriaev, Umeå University), Swedish Research Council 2007-2009, Ref. 2006-5243;
• Diesel HCCI in Multi-Cylinder Engines, VINNOVA-PFF Project 2005-2008, Ref. 2005-00180;
• KCFP Closed-Loop Combustion Control, KCFP (Competence Center Combustion Processes)—Swedish Energy Administration, Ref. 22485-1;
• ROSETTA—Integrated project funded under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), (Ref. FP7 ICT-230902 ROSETTA);
• SSF ProViking FlexAA;
• SMErobot   —The European Robot Initiative for Strengthening the Competitiveness of SMEs in Manufacturing (Integrated project funded under the European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme (FP6))

Research Seminars, Graduate Course

• FRT005F Robotics—Kinematics, Dynamics and Control
• FRT041F System Identification, Advanced Topics
• FRT050F Adaptive System Theory

Education

• FRT041 System Identification
• FRT050 Adaptive Control
• FRTN15 Predictive Control

Honors and Awards

• Best Paper Award from the 13th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM'09), Moscow, Russia, June 3-5, 2009.
• Euron/EUnited Robotics Technology Transfer Award 2007, Third Prize—Cost-effective Drilling Using Industrial Robots with High-Bandwidth Force Feedback (shared with a research group of members from Lund University, Linköping University, ABB Robotics and Saab Aircraft—Tomas Olsson, Mathias Haage, Henrik Kihlman, Torgny Brogårdh, Klas Nilsson, Anders Robertsson, Robert Isaksson, Gilbert Ossbahr, Mats Björkman, Magnus Engström, Rolf Johansson)
• Fellow of Kgl. Fysiografiska Sällskapet (Royal Physiographic Society), Section of Medicine, April 2007
• Euron Technology Transfer Award 2004—Open Platform for Skilled Motions in Productive Robotics (shared with a research group of members from LTH, Automatic Control, LTH, Computer Science—Anders Blomdell, Mathias Haage, Rolf Johansson, Klas Nilsson, Tomas Olsson, Anders Robertsson—and ABB Robotics—Torgny Brogårdh, Tomas Groth, Mats Isaksson, Stig Moberg, Sven Hanssen, Hui Zhang, Jian Jun Wang, Håkan Brantmark);
• Honorary Visiting Professor, Wuhan University of Science and Technology (WUST), Wuhan, Hubei, China, 2004; 
• Russell S. Springer Visiting Professor 2004, University of California,  Berkeley, Berkeley, CA;
• Honorary Visiting Professor, North China University of Science and Technology (NCUST), Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, 2003;   
• Recipient of the Biomedical Engineering Prize (Ebeling Prize) of the Swedish Society of Medicine, 1995 (for distinguished contribution to the study of human balance through application and development of system analysis and robotics);
• Included in Who's Who in the World, 12th ed., 1994, p. 679; Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 3rd Ed., p. 479; Who's Who in Medicine, 2nd Ed., p. 414;
• Innovation Cup '88 regional award by Skandia and Dagens Industri 1988

Editor Assignments

• Associate Editor, Int. J. Adaptive Control and Signal Processing;

• Associate Editor, Chinese Journal of Scientific Instrument, (China Instrument and Control Society)
• Guest Associate Editor,  Special Issue on Hybrid Systems in Automotive Control 2007, International Journal of Control

Archival Information

Doctorates Supervised:

1. Håkan Enbom, Vestibular and Somatosensory Contributions to Postural Control, October 6, 1990, Ph.D. Thesis MERL 1027, Dept. Otorhinolaryngology, Lund University Hospital (co-supervised with Dr. M. Magnusson).
2. Krister Brantberg, Aspects of Asymmetric Vestibular Function and Optokinetic After-Nystagmus, June 13, 1991, Ph.D. Thesis MERL 1031, Dept. Otorhinolaryngology, Lund University Hospital (co-supervised with Dr. M. Magnusson).
3. Serge Padoan, Effects of Some Anaesthetics on Eye Movements and Postural Control, June 11, 1992, Ph.D. Thesis MERL 1036, Dept. Otorhinolaryngology, Lund University Hospital (co-supervised with Dr. M. Magnusson).
4. Hannes Petersen, The Inner Ear and Postural Control in Man, October 6, 1995, Ph.D. Thesis MERL 1039, Dept. Otorhinolaryngology, Lund University Hospital (co-supervised with Dr. M. Magnusson) .
5. Mikael Karlberg, The Neck and Human Balance, November 3, 1995, Ph.D. Thesis MERL 1040, Dept. Otorhinolaryngology, Lund University Hospital (co-supervised with Dr. M. Magnusson; awarded the 1995 Crafoord Prize for best doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University).
6. Klas Nilsson, Industrial Robot Programming , May 29, 1996, Ph.D. Thesis TFRT 1046 (co-supervised with Prof. K. J. Åström)
7. Magnus Holm, Chronic Atrial Fibrillation in Man-Activation, Organization and Characterization , Ph.D. Thesis MECA 4, Dept. Cardiology, Lund University Hospital, October 10, 1997 (co-supervised with Prof. Bertil Olsson)
8. Anders Robertsson, On Observer-Based Control of Nonlinear Systems , December 16, 1999, PhD Thesis TFRT 1056,  Robotics Lab, Dept. Automatic Control, Lund University
9. Per Tunestål, Estimation of the In-Cylinder Air/Fuel Ratio of an Internal Combustion Engine by the Use of Pressure Sensors , PhD Thesis,  Div. Combustion Engines, Dept. Heat and Power Engineering, Mechanical Enginering, Lund University, April 6, 2001 (co-supervised with Prof. Karl Hedrick, UC Berkeley, and Prof. Gunnar Lundholm)
10. Johan Bengtsson, Closed-loop Control of HCCI Engine Dynamics, November 26, 2004, PhD Thesis TFRT 1070, Dept. Automatic Control, Lund University.
11. Per-Anders Fransson, Analysis of Adaptation in Human Postural Control, May 20, 2005, PhD Thesis 2005:31, Dept Clinical Sciences, Lund University (co-supervised with Prof. M. Magnusson).
12. Jonas Carlson, Exploration of Supraventricular Conduction with Respect to Atrial Fibrillation, PhD Thesis 2005:106, Dept. Clinical Sciences, Cardiology, Lund University Hospital, December 9, 2005. (co-supervised with Prof. S. B. Olsson).
13. Javier Gámez García, Sensor Fusion of Force, Acceleration and Position for Compliant Robot Motion Control, Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica, de Telecomunicación y Automática, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain, February 17, 2006 (co-supervised with Prof. Juan Gómez Ortega, Universidad de Jaén).
14. Tomas Olsson, High-Speed Vision and Force Feedback for Motion-Controlled Industrial Manipulators, May 4, 2007, PhD Thesis TFRT-1078,  Dept. Automatic Control, Lund University.
15. Ola Johansson, On the Value of Intelligent Packaging—A Packaging Logistics Perspective, October 16, 2009, Div. Packaging Logistics, Lund University, ISBN: 978-91-977271-4-3 (co-supervised with Prof. Gunilla Jönsson)

Research Projects

• CECOST Gas Turbine Project
• Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI ) within Vinnova project framework ”Grön Bil/Green Car"
• Nonlinear and Adaptive Control (NACO2) Network
  
• Robotics
  
• Lund Research Programme in Autonomous Robotics (Nutek-Mobile Autonomous Systems), 1993-1996, 1996-1999; 
• Open Control Architectures (Nutek-Complex Technological Systems), 1998-2001;
• Sensor-based Integration and Task-level Programming (Nutek-Complex Technological Systems), 1999-2002; 
• AutoFett, 2002-2004;
  
• Adaptive Cruise Control  and  Driver Models (Volvo Technical Development), 1998-2001;
• Induction Motor Control using Natural Field Orientation (NFO)

Workshops, Courses & Symposia

• NACO2 Workshop on Automotive Control, May 18-19, 2001
• Rice University Short Course on Adaptive Control, Houston, TX, May 7-12, 2001
• Graduate Course ME298 Subspace-based Model Identification at UC Berkeley, Dept. Mechanical Engineering
• System Identification, Graduate Course at Univ. Valladolid, Spain, June 7-11 2004
• Hybrid Control—European Network Workshop, June 1-2, 2006
• HYCON & CEMaCS Workshop on Automotive Systems and Control, June 1-2, 2006
• Call for papers, HYCON & CEMaCS Workshop on Automotive Systems and Control, Lund University, Lund Sweden, June 1-2, 2006;
• Hybrid Control—European Network Workshop, June 1-2, 2006
• Korea-Sweden Robotics Symposium, Lund, June 8-9, 2009

Editorship—Special Issues

• Special Issue on Subspace-based Identification in Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Int. J. Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Vol.18, No. 9-10, pp. 715-819, November 2004
• Special Issue on Hybrid systems in Automotive Control, Int. Journal of Control, Vol. 80,  No. 11, 2007

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Rolf Johansson

Last modified: 2009-10-01