Robotics

Focus:

The robotics research group is mainly conducting research in the area of autonomous collaborating systems. The focus is on adaptive autonomy, safe and secure path planning, real-time 3D vision, mission planning for collaborating autonomous vehicles, human-robot interaction, and dependable electronics in biomedical engineering and avionic systems. 


Division:

Division of Intelligent Future Technologies

Project TitleStatus
Next Generation Open Innovations in Trustworthy Embedded AI Architectures for Smart Cities, Mobility and Logistics active
RELIANT Industrial graduate school: Reliable, Safe and Secure Intelligent Autonomous Systems active
SECO-Collab Living Lab active
SUNRISE - Strategic Universities Network for Regional Innovative and Sustainable Evolution active
Swedish Land-based Robotics Centre active
A Canonical Model of the Primary Visual Cortex finished
Aggregate Farming in the Cloud finished
AI for Sustainable Food Production from Farm to Fork finished
Analysis and Design of Low-Phase-Noise Integrated Voltage-Controlled Oscillators for Wide-Band RF Front-Ends finished
AVANS - civilingenjörsprogrammet i tillförlitliga flyg- och rymdsystem finished
Brain technology in stroke rehabilitation – increasing motor recovery finished
Collaborative Adaptive Autonomous Agents finished
Development of Electroencephalography (EEG) Signal Analysis Techniques for Brain Computer Interface (BCI) Systems finished
DPAC - Dependable Platforms for Autonomous systems and Control finished
eCraft2Learn - Digital Fabrication and Maker Movement in Education: Making Computer-supported Artefacts from Scratch finished
Frequency Synthesizer for Multi-Standard RF Communication Systems finished
GIMME-SPACE finished
GIMME3 - Semi-fault tolerant next generation high performance computer architecture based on screened industrial components finished
Implementation of digital filters finished
Intelligent Human Robot Interaction finished
ITS ESS-H Industrial Graduate School in Reliable Embedded Sensor Systems finished
ITS-EASY, SVAHLA - Stereo Vision Assisted Hauler and Loader Alignment finished
MALTA finished
Mobile Robotics finished
Modular Lightweight Robotics finished
Music in Motion - A Project that combines Arts with Science finished
NeighbourFood - Sharing economy for a resilient food supply chain finished
Ralf II finished
RALF3 - Software for Embedded High Performance Architectures finished
Real-time Heterogeneous Systems finished
RECOG: Closed-loop neurofeedback innovation for cognitive rehabilitation finished
RoboCat finished
Robocygne finished
Robot Colleague - A Project in Collaborative Robotics finished
RUNNER finished
SafeDeep: Dependable Deep Learning for Safety-Critical Airborne Embedded Systems finished
Safety Critical Industrial Machine Vision Inspection and Control System (SAFEi) finished
Saga finished
Sags-tolerant and mains-friendly electrical drives finished
Självkörande cyklar för mer verklighetstrogen utveckling och verifiering av fordons säkerhetssystem för undvikande av cykelolyckor finished
Smart and networking underWAter Robots in cooperation MesheS finished
Two Camera System finished
Unicorn -Sustainable, peaceful and efficient robotic refuse handling finished
VARUM - Vision Aided Robots for Underwater Minehunting finished
Dasher on-hold
Roony on-hold

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A safety-driven architectural framework for fail-operational drone swarms in critical missions (Sep 2026)
Luiz Giacomossi, Zafer Yigit, Marwan Shakarna , Shoaib Saleemi , Ivan Tomasic, Baran Çürüklü, Håkan Forsberg
Proceedings of the 45th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC 2026)

Can Linux Fly a Drone? A Flight Control Evaluation for Unified UAV Architectures Using PREEMPT_RT Kernel (Sep 2026)
Luiz Giacomossi, Håkan Forsberg, Ivan Tomasic, Baran Çürüklü, Tommaso Cucinotta , Afshin Ameri E.
31st IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA2026)

Resilient Direct Data-Driven Control Design under Poisoned Input-Output Samples (Jul 2026)
Mojtaba Kaheni, Niklas Persson, Alessandro Papadopoulos
24th European Control Conference (ECC) (ECC2026)

Market-Based Replanning for Safety-Critical UAV Swarms in Search and Rescue Missions (May 2026)
Luiz Giacomossi, Andrea Haglund , Claire Namatovu , Emily Zainali , Esaias Målqvist , Yonatan Beyene , Ivan Tomasic, Baran Çürüklü, Håkan Forsberg
MIPRO 2026 - 49th ICT and Electronics Conventions (MIPRO 2026)

An Adaptive Data-Enabled Policy Optimization Approach for Autonomous Bicycle Control (Mar 2026)
Niklas Persson, Feiran Zhao , Mojtaba Kaheni, Florian Dörfler , Alessandro Papadopoulos
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (TCST 2026)

A Formal Definition of the Multi-Robot Multi-Task Time-extended Assignment Problem Configuration (Aug 2025)
Branko Miloradovic, Alessandro Papadopoulos
IEEE 21st International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2025)

Mikael Ekström, Professor

Email: mikael.ekstrom@mdu.se
Room: U1-125
Phone: +46-21-101671