New Research Centre for Embedded Systems:

The EASY Centre for Embedded Software and Systems

www. mdh.se/idt

IDT, School of Innovation, Design & Engineering

EASY is based on many years of strong research and successful industrial cooperation at MDH

The full desription of the calls are available at:http://www.kks.se/upload/utlysningar2010/Utlysning_profiler_2010.pdf

http://www.kks.se/upload/utlysningar2010/Utlysning_forskarskolor_2010.pdf

EASY will include • A research programme in close

cooperation with Swedish industry (6+6 MSEK/yr 2011-2016)

• An industrial graduate school with 15 PhD-students (4.5+4.5 MSEK/yr 2011-2016)

• Application to be submitted to KKS in September• Letters of Intents from industrial partners required

Funding expected from

Swedish Nat’l Embedded Software Systems Strategic Research Centre

25 Professors • 60 Senior Researchers • 100 PhD students

IDT research profiles

MRTC - Mälardalen Real-Time Research CentreIndustrial Software Eng. ● Real-Time Embedded Systems

ISS - Intelligent Sensor SystemsBiomedical Engineering ● Robotics ● Artificial Intelligence ● Wireless communication

Mälardalen UniversitySix prioritized research areas:

● Embedded systems● Innovation and Product Development● Environment, Energy and Resource Optimization● Sustainable Development, ● Working Life and Management● Welfare and Health● Didactics and Intercultural Communication

In numbers:

● Staff: 1000● Professors: 60 ● Students: 13 000 ● Turnover: 750 MSEK

Embedded Systems@MDH:

A player on many arenas● Industrial cooperation

● International exchange

● International projects

● Academic excellence

● Commercialization

● Undergraduate education

● Continued education

- More than a University!

IPR – Innovation and Product REalizationInnovation/Entrepreneurship ● Information Design ● Production and Product Development

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EASY is a joint initiative by Swedish Industry and the MDH research profiles ISS and MRTC

MRTCMälardalen Real-TimeResearch Centre- Industrial Software Engineering

-Real-Time Embedded Systems

ISSIntelligent Sensor Systems- Biomedical Engineering- Robotics- Artificial Intelligence- Wireless communication

Swedis h Nat’l Embedded Software Sys temsStrategic Research Centre

Applicationfocus

Methodologyfocus

Embedded Systems@MDH

Embedded Systems made EASY(the EASY scope)

HealthcareTelecommAutomation/ Robotics

Vehicles

Execution Platform Technologies

Verification and analysis

Software development

The EASY vision:To be a world-leading centre of excellence that provides innovative embedded systems solutions and substanially contributes to making future embedded software an order of magnitude easier to develop and maintain.

The EASY mission:To support Swedish industry to increase its competitiveness in this important area, and to strengthen the scientific basis for the EASY vision.

How can we help you meet your challenges?

The EASY offer

Joint activity/Project

50/50 funded

We provide You provide• Research competence• Technical solutions• International network• Staff

• Industrial problems• Market competence• Case-studies• Staff

Outcome

• Concrete solutions• Top talents• Increased

competence• Expanded network

EASY forms of cooperation• Long term cooperation (1-6yrs)

– Projects• Our efforts externally funded• Active participation by company (co-funding)

– Industrial PhD-students• Partial funding of student salary• Supervision and management externally funded

– Adjunct professorships– Joint international recruitments– Etc.

EASY competence• Expertise including

– AI (Case-based reasoning)– Biomedical Engineering,– Dependability, – Development efficiency– Model and Component-based

development– Multi-core

– Multi-tasking, – Real-time systems, – Robotics, – Software Engineering– Software Processes, – Software Testing, – Static Analysis, – Verification and validation, – Wireless networking– …• Competence base

BiomedicalEngineering

Maria Lindén

IntelligentSystems

Peter Funk

WirelessCommunication

Mats Björkman

Robotics

Lars Asplund

The EASY next step

• Letter of Intets (LoIs) required from participating companies– May-June:

• Discussions about forms and focus of cooperation• We are open for suggestions to get the best possible match

between company interests and EASY competence– End of August:

• Signed LoIs from companies– including estimated total contributions for the entire duration of

EASY (2011-2018)» Details will in most cases be worked out later

The EASY Process

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EASY contacts for further informationHans Hansson Research leader, School of Innovation, Design & Engineering Director of MRTC, Mälardalen Real.Time Research CentreProfessor of Real-Time SystemsTel: 021 -10 31 63, email: hans.hansson@mdh.se,

Maria LindénDirector of ISS, Intelligent Sensor Systems Associate professor of Biomedical EngineeringTel: 021 -10 15 48, email: maria.linden@mdh.se

Mats BjörkmanProfessor of Computer CommunicationTel:021-10 70 37, email: mats.bjorkman@mdh.se

Ivica CrnkovicProfessor of Industrial Software EngineeringTel: 021-103183, email: jivica.crnkovic@mdh.se

Malin RosqvistResearch CoordinatorTel: 021-10 31 12, email: malin.rosqvist@mdh.se

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It is not difficult to become a partner of the EASY centre for embedded software and systems @ MDH

The EASY way to success!

Thank you for your attention!More info at: www.mdh.se/idt

Bonus material

”Business model”(the EASY research factory)

Research Projects

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CHALLENGES

Industry

Industry

”Business model”(the EASY research factory)

20% Univ. funding

25% Agencies

30% Agencies forIndustrial coop.

25% from Industry

60MSEK(2009)

Sales & Admin

Research Projects

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Agencies>30MSEK(2009)

Hierarchical Scheduling Framework

MRTC/PROGRESS examples of results

Embedded Systems@MDHA player on many arenas

• Industrial cooperation (>20 MSEK/yr)

• International exchange (Eureca, SE-Master, Double-degrees)

• International projects (EU FP7, ARTEMIS, etc.)

• Academic excellence (Extensive support from VR)

• Commercialization• Undergraduate education• Continued education• More than a University!

Bombardier Transportation

Keypartners

Businessdeveloper

Project review

Commercialisationprocess

Friday Nov. 6, 2009

Design Techniques forAdaptive Embedded Systems

4 year project:• 5 PhD-students + 3 PostDocs• 12 MSEK

- top ranked proposal in Computer Science (”world leading”) bySwedish Research Council framework grants 2009-2012

… and in 2008 VR decided to fund 3 of our projects(no university got more CS projects funded)

Friday Nov. 6, 2009

Wireless Communication @ ISS: Tesla and Gauss

• 9 MSEK from VINNOVA and KKS to wireless communication at ISS.

• Joint research with ABB, VG Power, DELTA DT and Motion Control AB, 2010 – 2012.

• Mats Björkman and Maria Lindén.

Progress

• MRTC is hosting the PROGRESS National Strategic Centre for Embedded Software Development.

• The only CS-related strategic research centre funded by SSF (49 MSEK).