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Welcome to the Department of Automatic Control The Department of Automatic Control conducts research and education in dynamical systems, learning, and control. The department offers courses at both introductory and advanced levels within…

https://www.control.lth.se/start- 2026-04-29

We improve efficiency and reduce costs. What do traffic networks, wind farms, Facebook and economic markets have in common? They are all large-scale networked systems, which can be analyzed and optimized using automatic control techniques…

https://www.control.lth.se/research/large-scale-systems-and-learning- 2026-03-24

We combine scientific expertise with industrial competence. Considering Ericsson’s forecasy (Ericsson's website) that 47 billion devices will be connected to the Internet in 2030, 22 billion being IoT (Internet of Things (Wikipedia)…

https://www.control.lth.se/research/autonomous-real-time-systems- 2026-04-17

We translate ideas into sustainable and useful products and services. This is an area of application-driven research motivated by the desire to create a more sustainable society. It addresses several of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development…

https://www.control.lth.se/research/innovative-control-applications- 2026-04-17

Our department delivers education and research in control and learning systems. We give basic and advanced-level courses in control and learning within the regular engineering programme to students from different areas of engineering. Our…

https://www.control.lth.se/about- 2026-04-28

Job vacancies with us are also advertised in Lund University's job portal. Teaching Assistant positions (opens in Canvas)

https://www.control.lth.se/about/job-vacancies- 2026-05-07

13 February 2026 13:15 to 14:00 | Seminar All seminars are held at the Department of Automatic Control, in the seminar room M 3170-73 on the third floor in the M-building, unless stated otherwise. SpeakerDaniel Hernandez EscobarAbstractWe…

https://www.control.lth.se/calendar/solving-linear-vector-optimization-problems-alternating-direction-method-multipliers- 2026-01-13

We explain and study dynamical systems, learning and control The department offers education at all university levels, including first-cycle basic control courses, second-cycle elective courses, and third-cycle doctoral courses. Our basic…

https://www.control.lth.se/education- 2026-04-27

Doctors and Licentiates Graduated from the departmentName Techical Licenciate examPhD examCurrent employmentKarl EklundJan 1969Jan 1972Passed away, Feb 23 2014Krister MårtenssonApr 1970May 1972Self-employedBengt PetterssonOct 1970…

https://www.control.lth.se/staff/alumni- 2026-04-28

CoursesPhD courses at other departments at LTH (Third-cycle course website LTH)Courses at Centre for Engineering Education (CEE's website)2025Robust ControlLinear Systems (Canvas)2024Control System Synthesis (Canvas)2023Causal inference…

https://www.control.lth.se/education/third-cycle-courses- 2026-04-09

20 May 2026 14:00 to 15:00 | Seminar All seminars are held at the Department of Automatic Control, in the seminar room M 3170-73 on the third floor in the M-building, unless stated otherwise. Title:  ML-based energy-optimized network…

https://www.control.lth.se/calendar/master-thesis-presentation-henrik-schlemlein-wenell-and-ida-palm-ml-based-energy-optimized-network- 2026-04-22

Automatic Control is sometimes referred to as ‘the hidden technology’, as it is all around us without us even realising it. Automatic Control is about ensuring that processes automatically behave in the desired manner. The subject is…

https://www.control.lth.se/about/what-automatic-control- 2026-04-28

The aim of this initiative is to gather a collection of portraits of women who has or will influence the field of automatic control. The project has two parts: Historical female influencersFemales that worked in control engineering over…

https://www.control.lth.se/collaboration-and-outreach/female-influencers-automatic-control- 2026-04-29

Explore the field of control technology with us Collaboration is one of the university's main tasks and an important activity for our department. Collaboration includes collaborations with industry and organisations, outreach activities,…

https://www.control.lth.se/collaboration-and-outreach- 2026-04-29

These forms of collaborations work with our PhD students and with faculty staff. Our Director of Research-studies Pontus Giselsson, and our Head of Department Karl-Erik Årzén, organise and coordinate many of these activities. Partner in a…

https://www.control.lth.se/collaboration-in-research- 2026-04-28

The Department of Automatic Control is one of the departments at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Lund University. Our research is focused on the sustainable and safe operation of technical systems to the benefit of people and the…

https://www.control.lth.se/research- 2026-04-29

School visits Welcoming school children and high-school students to our department, we regularly participate in the following outreach activities at LTH and in Lund:Robotics Week (on the website of AI Lund, in Swedish) Kulturnatten (on the…

https://www.control.lth.se/collaboration-and-outreach/visits-and-outreach-activities- 2026-05-05

The aim of this initiative is to gather a collection of portraits of women who worked in control engineering over the decades and left their mark. The purpose is to document their role and importance in the field of control engineering and…

https://www.control.lth.se/collaboration-and-outreach/female-influencers-automatic-control/historical-female-influencers-automatic-control- 2026-04-28

The aim of this initiative is to look ahead and investigate the hopes, wishes, ideas and aspirations of young female students and professionals. For this purpose, a questionnaire to capture the voices of future female control engineers,…

https://www.control.lth.se/collaboration-and-outreach/female-influencers-automatic-control/future-female-influencers-automatic-control- 2026-04-27

Outreach activities, and related material, for the project "Historical Female Influencers in Automatic Control" are described on this page. The list of activities is presented in cronological order with the most recent activity on top…

https://www.control.lth.se/collaboration-and-outreach/female-influencers-automatic-control/outreach- 2026-05-05