Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden Visit: Ole Römers väg 1 Phone: +46 46 222 87 82 Fax:  +46 46 13 81 18 karlerik@control.lth.se
Karl-Erik Årzén Professor, Director of Studies Department of Automatic Control

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Personal Information

• Research Interests
• Publications
• Short CV (November 2007)

Research Projects

Current Projects

• EU IST FP7 Network of Excellence ArtistDesign (Design of Embedded Systems)
  
• EU IST FP7 Network of Excellence STREP ACTORS (Adaptivity and Control of Resources in Embedded Systems)
  
• Feedback Based Resource Management and Code Generation for Soft Real-Time Systems
  
• EUROSYSLIB
  
• EU IST FP6 Network of Excellence ARTIST2 (Design of Embedded Systems)
  
• LUCAS - Center for Applied Software Research
• Language Support for Dynamic Optimization
• TrueTime - Simulation of Networked and Embedded Control Systems

Past Projects

• Control and diagnosis in batch processes
• Grafchart - A Java-Based Grafcet Editor and Run-Time System
• EU IST FP6 Integrated Project RUNES
  
• FLEXCON - Flexible Embedded Control Systems
• Control Loop Monitoring
• Jitterbug - Real-Time Control Performance Analysis
• EU NMP FP4 CHEM Advanced Decision Support for the Chemical Process Industry) 
• EU IST FP5 HRTC (Hard Real-Time CORBA for Control)
• Integrated Control and Scheduling
• Control of Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) Engines (FAMIMO)
• Application Specific Real Time Systems: Programming of Control Systems

Thesis examined

• PhD thesis "Piecewise Linear Control Systems", Mikael Johansson, 1999, (joint supervision with Prof Anders Rantzer)
• PhD thesis "A Graphical Language for Batch Control", Charlotta Johnsson, 1999
• PhD thesis "Flexible Embedded Control Systems; Design and Implementation", Johan Eker, 1999, (joint supervision with Prof Karl Johan Åström)
• PhD thesis "Topics in Modeling, Control, and Implementation in Automotive Systems", Magnus Gäfvert, 2003 (joint supervision with Prof Björn Wittenmark)
• PhD thesis "Integrated Control and Real-Time Scheduling", Anton Cervin, 2004
• PhD thesis "Batch Control and Diagnosis", Rasmus Olsson, 2005
• PhD thesis "Resource-Constrained Embedded Control and Computing Systems", Dan Henriksson, 2006
• PhD thesis "Dynamic Modelling and Simulation of Liquid Food Process Lines", Tomas Skoglund, 2007 (20% joint supervision with Prof Petr Dejmek)
• PhD thesis "Languages and Tools for Optimization of Large-Scale Systems", Johan Åkesson, 2007
• Six Licentiate theses
• Numerous Master theses

Some Recent Workshops

• 2nd International ARTIST Workshop on Control for Embedded Systems, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne, May 31 - June 1, 2007
• First International ARTIST Workshop on Control for Embedded Systems, Lund, 13-16 June, 2005

Teaching

Engineering Programme

• Real-Time Systems
• Projects in Automatic Control
• International Project Course in Automatic Control

Doctorate Programme

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2007
• Artist2 Graduate School on Embedded Control Systems, May 2007
• Embedded Control Systems 2006
• Integrated Control & Real-Time, Valencia 2004
• Embedded Control Systems 2004
  
• Discrete and Hybrid Systems 2004
  
• Control System Synthesis: GDI Control Project
• Languages for Automation
• Discrete Event Systems
• Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems
• Object-Oriented Petri Nets
• Petri Nets and Grafcet
• Model-Based Diagnosis
• Lisp Programming

Professional Links

• ARTES: A network for real-time research and graduate education in Sweden
• Center for Process Design and Control (CPDC)
• Home page of IEEE CS TC on Real-Time Systems
• Lund Workshop on Control for Embedded Systems
• RTC2005

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Karl-Erik Årzén

Last modified: 2005-11-11