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: EASY will include A research programme in close cooperation with Swedish industry (6+6 MSEK/yr ) An industrial graduate school with 15 PhD-students ( MSEK/yr ) 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 - MRTC - Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre Industrial Software Eng. ● Real-Time Embedded Systems ISS - ISS - Intelligent Sensor Systems Biomedical Engineering ● Robotics ● Artificial Intelligence ● Wireless communication Mälardalen University Six 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: ● Turnover: 750 MSEK Embedded A player on many arenas ● Industrial cooperation ● International exchange ● International projects ● Academic excellence ● Commercialization ● Undergraduate education ● Continued education - More than a University! IPR – IPR – Innovation and Product REalization Innovation/Entrepreneurship ● Information Design ● Production and Product Development

EASY is a joint initiative by Swedish Industry and the MDH research profiles ISS and MRTC MRTC Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre - Industrial Software Engineering -Real-Time Embedded Systems ISS Intelligent Sensor Systems - Biomedical Engineering - Robotics - Artificial Intelligence - Wireless communication Application focus Methodology focus Embedded

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 Biomedical Engineering Maria Lindén Biomedical Engineering Maria Lindén Intelligent Systems Peter Funk Intelligent Systems Peter Funk Wireless Communication Mats Björkman Wireless Communication Mats Björkman Robotics Lars Asplund 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 ( ) » Details will in most cases be worked out later

The EASY Process MayJuneJulyAug.SeptJan.Dec.Nov.Oct Initial contacts & discussions with prospective ind. partners

EASY contacts for further information Hans Hansson Research leader, School of Innovation, Design & Engineering Director of MRTC, Mälardalen Real.Time Research Centre Professor of Real-Time Systems Tel: , Maria Lindén Director of ISS, Intelligent Sensor Systems Associate professor of Biomedical Engineering Tel: , Mats Björkman Professor of Computer Communication Tel: , Ivica Crnkovic Professor of Industrial Software Engineering Tel: , Malin Rosqvist Research Coordinator Tel: ,

It is not difficult to become a partner of the EASY centre for embedded software and MDH The EASY way to success! Thank you for your attention! More info at:

Bonus material

”Business model” (the EASY research factory) Research Projects Staff Industry

”Business model” (the EASY research factory) Sales & Admin Research Projects Staff Industry Agencies >30 MSEK (2009)

Hierarchical Scheduling Framework MRTC/PROGRESS examples of results

Embedded A 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!

Friday Nov. 6, 2009 Design Techniques for Adaptive Embedded Systems 4 year project: 5 PhD-students + 3 PostDocs 12 MSEK - top ranked proposal in Computer Science (”world leading”) by Swedish Research Council framework grants … and in 2008 VR decided to fund 3 of our projects (no university got more CS projects funded)

Friday Nov. 6, 2009 Wireless 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 – 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).