Systems Engineering

The research in systems engineering covers sensors, signals and systems. The focus is in radar, marine technology, computer vision, measurement technology, remote sensing, medical technology, applied statistics, autonomous systems and electromagnetic modeling.

Systems engineering deals with how different system components can work together to form a functioning whole. Energy supply systems, radar systems, transport systems and biological processes are examples of systems that can be studied. The technology also makes it possible to transfer ideas from one application area to another as it has its basis in mathematics (and physics).

Systems engineering research is important in a number of areas in society such as infrastructure, transport, health care and development of industrial products. It plays a key role in meeting current and future societal and sustainability challenges. Systems engineering meets where technical questions become increasingly complex and when demands are placed on new theory to manage and analyse larger amounts of information and increased complexity with maintained requirements for precision, flexibility and security.

Research in systems engineering at BTH is mainly conducted at the Faculty of Engineering and the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Researchers

Mats Pettersson
Professor CV

Mattias Dahl
Professor

Wlodek Kulesza
Professor

Tobias Larsson
Professor CV

Benny Lövström
Senior lecturer/docent

Viet Thuy Vu
Senior lecturer/docent

Oskar Frånberg
Senior lecturer/docent

Josef Ström Bartunek,
Senior lecturer

Carolina Bergeling,
Senior lecturer CV

Saleh Javadi
Associate senior lecturer

Bruna Palm
Associate senior lecturer

Yevhen Ivanenko
Postdoctoral

Vinicius Ludwig Barbosa
Postdoctoral

Simon Hallösta
PhD student

Majid Joshani
PhD student

Kent Cronholm
Industrial PhD student

Johan Hjortsberg
Lecturer

Carles Quilis Alfonso
PhD student

Lucas Pedroso Ramos
Guest PhD student

Specialisations

• Novel image inversion algorithms based on Doppler measurements for security and climate monitoring

• Methodology for impact assessment of road user charging for heavy vehicles. – A project within the Arena platform

• Tentacle – Capitalising on the TEN-T core network corridors for growth and cohesion.

• One-sided and two-sided nil-ideals in skew group rings.

• Radio occulation inversion methods.

• Modeling and optimization of systems.

Collaborations

Systems engineering research at BTH is conducted in collaboration with several companies and organisations. Some examples of collaboration partners are:

Saab Survelliance and Kockums,
Beyond Gravity Sweden AB,
FOI and FMV,
Blue Science Park,
NetPort Science Park AB,
Techtank,
Swedish Transport Agency,
Sweco,
County of Blekinge,
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) and
Airbus Defense and Space.

Both nationally and internationally, directly or indirectly, via our research projects, we also collaborate with other universities and research organisations. Some examples are Chalmers University of Technology, Lund University, Linköping University, Malmö University, Uppsala University, the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) and the Norwegian Road and Traffic Research Institute (VTI), the University of Duisburg Essen, Germany and the Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil.

Examples of projects

Fight Black-Grass using Drones and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Invasive species represent one of the greatest challenges for global agriculture, the challenge lies in the ability of invasive species to quickly establish themselves, change their expression and spread in new environments. The new species can cause significant damage to agricultural land, reduce harvests and increase the costs of control and management.

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Novel image inversion algorithms based on Doppler measurement for security and climate monitoring

Radar and radar-like instruments are increasingly used in our society to make light and weather-independent imagery. The applications are many and they are used e.g. to study climate change and to monitor various conflict areas on your world. In this research project, we improve performance in these systems. In particular, we focus on systems that use Doppler to generate high resolution. The instruments we focus on are Radio Occultation Instruments and Synthetic Apertur Radar and the applications are e.g. to improve weather measurements in the atmosphere and the ability to detect changes occurring on the ground in connection with human activity.

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TENTacle

Regional growth is of great importance in EU transport policy instrument on the major transport axes across Europe i.e. the Trans – European Transport Network (TEN-T). The TENTacle project aims at making proposals for how planning methods and infrastructures can be further improved and developed. This in order for regions outside Europe’s main grid corridors to benefit from the growth pulses expected along the corridors. In Sweden, the TEN-T corridor runs between Stockholm and Malmö-Trelleborg, and from Oslo (Norway) through Gothenburg to Malmö-Trelleborg.

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Next generation of Synthetic aperture radar processing algorithms to explore earth and universe

It is today possible, from a far distance, to detect for instance a military vehicle hidden under camouflage. How is this possible? Here you find an overview of the research making it possible. We also present how our research project hopefully can contribute to an improvement of the techniques used in the area.

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Contact

Professor Mats Pettersson
Head of subject, systems engineering
E-mail: mats.pettersson@bth.se
Telephone: + 455-38 57 28