Annual Report 2002 - Örebro universitet

18 AASS – Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems
1.5.3 Self-study course work
This type of course work is done within supervised self-study circles (smaller courses), or
individual studies.
1.5.4 Cooperation with other graduate programs
As recognition of the research effort at AASS, Örebro University has become one of the
participants in CUGS -- the Swedish National Graduate School in Computer Science. CUGS
is commissioned by the Swedish government and the Swedish Board of Education and Lars
Karlsson is a member of the CUGS steering Committee.
Because of CUGS, AASS students have now the additional possibility to get enrolled as
CUGS students or to follow some courses of interest provided by the CUGS study program.
Currently, two students from the Mobile Robotics Laboratory are enrolled in CUGS,
receiving a total funding of 700' SEK:
• Robert Johansson, with topic cooperative robotics and supervisors Alessandro Saffiotti
and Lars Karlsson
• Kevin LeBlanc, with topic anchoring and supervisors Alessandro Saffiotti and Silvia
Coradeschi.
The scientific scope of CUGS includes central parts of the core computer science
(sv. datalogi) and computer engineering (sv. datorsystem). In this regard, CUGS puts an
emphasis on programming languages, algorithms, software engineering, also including related
areas of autonomous systems, real-time systems, embedded systems, knowledge-based
systems and artificial intelligence. Other members of CUGS are the universities/university
colleges in Linköping (host), Lund, Mälardalen, and Skövde.
Detailed information about CUGS can be found at:
http://www.ida.liu.se: 9080/groups/cugs/FrontPage.
1.5.5 European graduate programs
As a recognition for the quality of its graduate education and research
The European Commission has granted AASS the status of a Marie Curie Training
Site in the area of Autonomous Robotics. The Commission, during the next four years, will
provide the funding necessary for accommodating PhD students from European countries for
periods of stay between 3 and 12 months. During their stay at AASS the guest-students will
participate in projects related to AASS research and also take courses offered within the
AASS Graduate Program. Prof. D. Driankov is the responsible coordinator for the program.
During 2002 we have had 2 Marie Curie Fellows:
• Marcel Oosterom, Delft Inst. of Technology. Topic: Fuzzy gain-scheduled control;
Duration: 3 months.
• Achim Lilienthal, German Aerospace Center, Inst. of Robotics and Mechatronics. Topic:
Simultaneous localization and mapping; Duration: 6 months