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Annual Report 2002 11 2.2 Management The management, evaluation, and monitoring of AASS activities is performed by the AASS Management Body which consists of the AASS Director, AASS Research Coordinator, lab leaders, and the coordinators of undergraduate/graduate programs. The major decisions made by the Management Body concern: 1. Budget; 2. Research strategies; 3. Research/Education integration in the Computer Science (Datateknik) program; 4. Long-term research/education planning; 5. Recruitment; 6. Personnel career development; 7. AASS university/department role The AASS Director who chairs the steering committee is responsible for budget preparation, recruitment, career development, and interface with the department, the university and with industry and funding bodies. The Advisory Board annually reviews AASS research and progress from both a scientific and industrial perspective and can suggest corrections if necessary. Currently the Advisory Board consists of: Hans Skoog, Professor, Strategy and Technology Advisor, ABB Corporate Research, Västerås, Sweden. Torbjörn Widmark, PhD, AssiDomän Frövi, Product Development & Technical Service, Frövi, Sweden Alexander Lauber, Professor in Measurement Technology, Department of Technology, Kalmar University, Kalmar, Sweden. Rainer Palm, Dr. Ing., Dr. Sc.-techn., Corporate Technology Information and Communications, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany. Emil M. Petriu, Dr. Eng., P. Eng., Professor, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada. The AASS Research Coordinator is responsible for the formulation and progress of inter-lab projects, long-term research planning and recruitment needs, and planning and coordination of research grant applications. He also monitors the AASS Graduate Studies Program and prepares and organizes progress reports and evaluations concerning AASS activities. The Lab leaders are responsible for all issues pertaining to lab organization management, and development. This includes, planning and coordination of lab-specific research projects as well as lab administration, e.g. budget handling, lab “marketing'' (internal and external), lab contributions to teaching, etc.
12 AASS – Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems 1.3 Funding AASS funding comes from a number of sources. The major ones are as follows: 1. KK-Foundation grants In the year 2002 this grant amounted to a total of 7,2 MSEK. 1,8MSEK was a part of the KK-Foundation platform II project, while 0,8MSEK are two grants, which two of our Phd. Students received from the KK-foundation. During the years 2002- 2008 the KK- Foundation stays for a grant of up to 36 MSEK. This grant, won in a tough competition with other Swedish research centers and groups, is intended to help achieving internationally competitive research profile, establishing a long-term development potential and developing sufficient alternative (other than the KK Foundation) funding sources. Furthermore the grant is to facilitate active industrial cooperation where the latter is ensured by requiring 1-to-1 match between the KK-Foundation grant and funding from industry. This yields a total of up to 72 MSEK for a period of 6 years. This requirement has had quite a positive effect regarding AASS industrial cooperation - existing one has been further strengthened and new industrial partners have been found. The matching funding provided by industry is mainly in the form of, industrial graduate students, parttime participation of industry personnel in external research projects, and expensive equipment. 2. Faculty funding For the year 2002 it amounts to 5,5 MSEK. This funding allows AASS to conduct more basic research and for maintaining and developing the size and quality of AASS participation in undergraduate/graduate education. 3. Vetenskapsrådet – Swedish Council of Research grants. This is a traditional funding source though characterized by its extreme competitiveness. A VR grant of 1,2 MSEK covering a period of 3 years started in 2001 for research on the subject of signal-to-symbol conversion in mobile autonomous robots. Another VR grant was obtained in 2002 for research on the subject of Sensor-based planning for mobile robotics. 4. Regional funding During 2002 regional industry has supported AASS with 303 000 SEK for equipment and 375 00 SEK for one PhD-student. As a measure of having achieved the objectives set by the KK-Foundation AASS has adopted the ratio between internal (faculty/university) and external (KK-Foundation, industry, research funding agencies) funding. For year 2002 this ratio was 62% for external funding (58% in 2001). The diagram from below summarizes the different funding sources in year 2002. Others 19% Facultyfunding 35% KK- Foundation 46%
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