Karl Henrik Johansson,

Professor, Director
Wallenberg Scholar
IEEE Fellow
ACCESS Linnaeus Centre
School of Electrical Engineering
Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden

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Member of the Editorial Board of and International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. Past Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, and IET Control Theory & Applications. Past Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Networked Systems. Past member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors (2009). Fellow of IEEE. Member of ACM, IIASA Society, and SIAM.

Research Interests

Networked and distributed control and estimation; Integrated control and communication; Hybrid and embedded control systems; Non-smooth and relay feedback systems; Applications in automotive, automation and communication systems

Short popular description of our research (in Swedish): Vad är nätverksbaserad reglerteknik?

News

• EECI Graduate School on Control 2013 on Event-triggered and Self-triggered Control by Maurice Heemels, Karl H. Johansson, and Paulo Tabuada. Here is the lecture notes by Johansson: Lecture 10, Lecture 11, Lecture 12, Lecture 13, Lecture 14.
• Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Special Issue on Control of Cyber-Physical Systems. See Call for Papers. Submission deadline: February 15, 2013.
• Tutorial Session on An Introduction to Event-Triggered and Self-Triggered Control at IEEE CDC, Maui, HI, 2012. Lecture 1 by Paulo Tabuada, Lecture 2 by Maurice Heemels, Lecture 3 by Karl H. Johansson.
• Named Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the applications of hybrid and networked systems.
• Keynote presentation on Networked control challenges and applications in the Internet of Things given at the Workshop on Internet of Things, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Oct, 2012.
• Presentation on Distributed event-based control given at the DFG Workshop on Event-based control and optimization, Institute of Advanced Studies, TU Munich, Oct, 2012.
• Presentations on Cyber-security of networked control systems and Wireless control given at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Science, Jul, 2012.
• Excellent results in the mid-term evaluation of the ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, Jun, 2012.
• Guest Editor of Special Issue on Event-Based Control and Optimization for the journal Discrete Event Dynamic Systems.
• CPS Week Tutorial on Resilient Control Systems at CPS Week, Beijing, China, 2012.
• Keynote presentation Building smart cities and smart infrastructures at IoT Industry Development Forum, Shanghai, China, 2011.
• Keynote Speaker at IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Annecy, France, 2010.
• Keynote Speaker at Reglermöte, Lund, Sweden, 2010.
• General Chair of CPSWEEK 2010 hosting the conferences CPC, HSCC, IPSN, LCTES, RTAS, Apr 12-16, Stockholm
• Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Special Issue of on Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks. Guest Editorial. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 56:10, 2244-2246, 2011.
• IEEE MASS 2009 Best Paper Award for A Generalized Markov Model for Effective Analysis of Slotted IEEE 802.15.4, by Pangun Park, Piergiuseppe Di Marco, Pablo Soldati, Carlo Fischione and Karl Henrik Johansson
• Piergiuseppe Di Marco receives the "Confindustria S.I. - AICA Award 2009" for his MSc theses
• Wallenberg Scholar, individual grant awarded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Jun 1, 2009. Interview, Nov 25, 2009. Annual report of KAW 2009.
• Plenary presentation on event-based control for wireless systems at NESCOC Symposium on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control, University of Stuttgart, 28 Sep, 2009
• Lectures on event-based control at the Dutch Summer school on Distributed Control and Estimation, June 2-5, 2009
• Invited presentation on Wireless control: opportunities and challenges at Automationsdagarna, Globen, Stockholm, 2009
• TPC co-chair for 1st IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems (NecSys'09), 24-26 September, 2009, Venice, Italy
• VINNOVA grants research project on Networked Embedded Control Systems, Apr 18, 2008. Press release (in Swedish). 
• Program Co-Chair for IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Washington DC, USA, Aug 23-26, 2008.
• Keynote presentation at 6th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization  in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Berlin, Germany, March 31-April 4, 2008
• Our research project RUNES featured in ScienceDaily (Mar14, 2008)
• Our research on wireless control for mining industry within the project SOCRADES featured in Process Nordic (Jan 1, 2008)
• 1st ACCESS Industrial Workshop, 13 March, 2008, KTH.
• Special Issue of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control on "Industrial Control over Wireless Networks"
• RUNES Minitutorial Session at ECC 2007 in Kos, Greece, July 2-5, 2007
• Plenary talk at 15th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Athens, Greece, June 27-29, 2007
• Control over wireless networks, Invited talk, CTS-HYCON Workshop, Université Paris Sorbonne, France, July 10-12, 2006
• Swedish Research Council (VR) approves Linné proposal ACCESS (Autonomic Complex Communication Networks, Signals, and Systems) over ten years,  2006-06-29
• Modeling and analysis of hybrid control systems, Tutorial Lecture, Modelling and Verifying Parallel Processes (MOVEP), Bordeaux, France, June 19-23 2006
• Control over wireless networks (Parts I and II), Plenary Lectures, 25th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Heeze, The Netherlands, March 13-15, 2006
• Ninth International Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2006), Santa Barbara, CA, 2006-03-29--31
• Utbrott på Lava, European Research Night, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, 2005-09-23
• Senior Researcher Position awarded in Network Interconnected Sensing and Control by Swedish Research Council, 2005-09-19
• Third Swedish Workshop on Autonomous Robotics, Stockholm, 2005-09-01--02
• 1st HYCON PhD School on Hybrid Systems, Siena, 2005-07-19--22
• Individual Grant for the Advancement of Research Leaders, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (pressrelease, KTH News, ceremony, interview), 2004-12-15, 2005-04-11

Research Projects

• Network fundamentals: dynamics, optimization, control, Swedish Research Council, Framework Grant for Strategic Research in Information and Communication Technology, 2013-2016
• Distributed cooperative estimation over complex spatial-temporal networks, National Natural Science Foundation, China, 2012-2016
• Sirona Halsoanalys: utveckling av en dynamisk prediktionsmodell, VINNOVA Forska & Vax, 2012-2013
• Distributed management of sensor and actor network systems for intelligent space monitoring, Sweden-Korea Research Cooperation Programme, STINT, 2011-2013
• iQFleet: intelligent control of vehicles and platoons, VINNOVA, 2011-2014.
• Wallenberg Scholar, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, 2010-2015
• Large-scale and Adaptive Networked Control, Swedish Research Council, 2011-2013
• WiComPI, Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA), 2009-2012
• Trust Wireless, Swedish Research Council, 2010-2013
• Distributed control av vehicle platoons, VINNOVA, 2009-2013.
• ACCESS (Autonomic complex communication networks, signals, and systems), Swedish Research Council, 2006-2016
• HYCON2 (Highly-complex and networked control systems), Network of Excellence, European Commission, IST program, FP6-FP7, 2004-2013

Past Projects

• Senior Researcher Position in network interconnected sensing and control, Swedish Research Council, 2006-2011
• VIKING (Vital Infrastructure, Networks, Information and Control Systems Management), STREP, European Commission, IST program, FP7, 2008-2011
• FeedNetBack (Feedback design for wireless networked systems), STREP, European Commission, IST program, FP7, 2008-2011
• NEC (Networked embedded control systems), Individual Grant for the Advancement of Research Leaders, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, 2005-2010
• Wireless control, Swedish Research Council, 2008-2010
• Networked Embedded Control Systems, Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA), 2008-2010
• Vehicle control using preview information, Swedish Programme Council for Vehicle Research (Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems), and SCANIA, 2004-2009
• SOCRADES (Service-oriented cross-layer infrastructure for distributed smart embedded devices), Integrated Project, European Commission, IST program, FP6, 2006-2009
• Cooperative guard and search: flexible autonomous UGV systems, Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) and Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) 2007-2009
• ARTIST2, Network of Excellence, European Commission, IST program, FP6, 2004-2008
• SRI (Towards a self-regulating Internet), Swedish Research Council, 2002-2007
• Network-aware control: flexible and robust control for uncertain distributed systems with complex dynamics, Swedish Research Council, 2002-2007
• RUNES (Reconfigurable ubiquitous networked embedded systems), Integrated Project, European Commission, IST program, FP6, 2004-2007
• EuroNGI (Design and engineering of the next generation Internet), Network of Excellence, European Commission, IST program, FP6, 2004-2007
• Integrated coding and control, Swedish Research Council, 2003-2005
• RECSYS (Real-time embedded control of mobile systems with distributed sensing), European Commission, IST program, FP5, 2002-2005
• Electric energy management in heavy vehicles, Swedish Programme Council for Vehicle Research (Programrådet för fordonsforskning) and SCANIA, 2002-2005

Research Group

• Bart Besselink, Postdoc (Ph.D. from Technical University of Eindhoven): Model reduction of networked systems
• Kun Liu, Postdoc (Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University): Time-delay networked control systems
• Piergiuseppe Di Marco, Postdoc (Ph.D. from KTH): Wireless automation
• Ziyang Meng, Postdoc (Ph.D. from Tsinghua University): Multi-agent and distributed control
• Guodong Shi, Postdoc (Ph.D. from Chinese Academy of Sciences): Distributed control systems
• Kin Cheong Sou, Postdoc (Ph.D. from MIT): Cyber-security and control fo power systems
• Alessandra Parisio, Postdoc (Ph.D. from Univeristy of Sannio): Building management and climate control
• Damiano Varagnolo, Postdoc (Ph.D. from University of Padova): Distributed optimization and networking
• Tao Yang, Postdoc (Ph.D. from Washington State University): Multi-agent systems and constrained control

• Assad Alam, Ph.D. student: Vehicle to vehicle communication and control (co-supervisor Jonas Martensson)
• Martin Andreasson, Ph.D. student: Security and resilience of power control systems (co-supervisor Henrik Sandberg)
• Jose Araujo, Ph.D. student: Wireless sensor and actuator networks (co-supervisor Henrik Sandberg)
• Farhad Farokhi, Ph.D. student: Networked control in complex systems (co-supervisor Henrik Sandberg)
• Meng Guo, Ph.D. student: Multi-agent control (main supervisor Dimos Dimarogonas)
• Erik Henriksson, Ph.D. student: Predictive control over wireless networks (co-supervisor Henrik Sandberg)
• Kuo-Yun Liang, Ph.D. student: Vehicle platooning (co-supervisor Jonas Martensson)
• Chithrupa Ramesh, Ph.D. student: Wireless communication for estimation and control (co-supervisor Henrik Sandberg)
• Hakan Terelius, Ph.D. student: Distributed control (co-supervisor Alexandre Proutiere)
• Andre Teixeira, Ph.D. student: Secure control systems (main supervisor Henrik Sandberg)
• Valerio Turri, Ph.D. student: Intelligent transportation systems (co-supervisor Jonas Martensson)

Former Postdocs, Ph.D. students and M.Sc. students 

Please, contact me if you are interested in working on a thesis subject related to my interest, either towards a M.Sc. or a Ph.D. degree.

Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching

• Event-triggered and Self-triggered Control (joint with W.P.M.H. Heemels and P. Tabuada), HYCON-EECI Graduate School on Control, EECI, Supelec, France, Apr 2013.
• Networked Control Systems (joint with V. Gupta), HYCON-EECI Graduate School on Control, EECI, Supelec, France, Mar 2010, Mar 2011.
• PhD Course on Multisensorial Acquisition-Processing and Robotics Systems, Universidad de Alcala, Madrid, Apr 2007: Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3
• 1st HYCON PhD School on Hybrid Systems, Siena, Jul 2005
• Hybrid systems modeling and control in automotive applications (introduction and summary), Graduate Paris School on Control (Formation en Automatique à Paris), Apr 2005
• 2E1200 Automatic Control, Basic Course, Fall 2002 (lp 1)
• 2E1242 Automatic Control, Project Course, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006 (lp 4)
• EL2450 Hybrid and Embedded Control Systems, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2009 (lp 3)
• 2E1262 Nonlinear Control, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Fall 2003 (lp 2)
• 2E1700 Electro Project, Spring 2001 (lp 3-4)
• Study Group in Network and Control, Fall 2002-Spring 2003
• Study Group in Information and Control Theory, Fall 2001-Spring 2002
• Study Group in Systems and Control Theory, Spring 2001
• EECS291E Hybrid Systems, UC Berkeley, Spring 2000
• FRT075 Nonlinear and Servo Systems, Lund University, Spring 1998 (lp 3)

Work Mailing Address
ACCESS Linnaeus Centre
School of Electrical Engineering
Royal Institute of Technology
SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

Work Electronic Address
kallej@kth.se
http://www.ee.kth.se/~kallej
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+46 8 7907329 (fax)

Work Visiting Address
Office A:635, 6th floor
Osquldas väg 10, KTH Main Campus (Directions)