Control engineering, autonomy and decision support

Autonomous functions, e.g. unmanned aircraft and collision avoiding systems, require increasingly complex decision support.

LINK-SIC - Linköping Centre for Sensor Informatics and Control - is a Vinnova Industry Excellence Centre for cooperation between industry and academia in the area of control systems and signal processing. Activities focus primarily on applications for industrial robots, aircraft and motor vehicles.

The Linnaeus Centre CADICS - Control, Autonomy and Decision-making in Complex Systems - is a broad research environment made up of five existing research groups at LiU: Control Engineering, Sensor Informatics, Vehicle Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Visualisation. The centre is funded by the Swedish Research Council and Formas.

The goal is to develop theories and methods for decision support, which often involves compiling large quantities of data from different sources, known as sensor or information fusion. Concrete examples include warning systems for avoiding collisions between cars, autonomy management in unmanned aircraft, medical diagnoses, air traffic control, and industrial processes.

Research articles

No retirement for Lennart Ljung

Last summer, Lennart Ljung celebrated 35 years at Linköping University. Down the years, he has been one of the university’s best-known profiles in research, both at home and abroad. He’s 65, but retirement holds no interest. (21-12-2011)