Annual Report 2002 - Örebro universitet

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2.3.3 Staff
Docent Ivan Kalaykov received his Dipl. Eng. in Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. in Control
Engineering from the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 1972 and 1985 respectively.
He has been an Associate Professor at: Dept. of Control and Systems Engineering, Technical
University of Sofia, since 1987; Dept. of Physics, Tromsoe University, Norway, 1998-1999;
and the Dept. of Technology, Örebro University since 2000, where he is now the head of the
Intelligent Control Lab. He has been a visiting researcher at the Control Laboratory of Dept.
of Electrical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands and Institute for
Peripheral Microelectronics, University of Kassel, Germany. He has been also Chairman and
Vice-chairman of the Bulgarian Union of Automation and Informatics (UAI - the professional
society of control engineers). He served as IPC-member of many scientific events and has
more than 60 conference/journal publications. His research interests include adaptive control
systems, intelligent control systems, fuzzy logic control, fuzzy logic hardware, and visual
servoing for robot manipulation. He is a member of IEEE, SPIE and EUSFLAT.
Prof. George Fodor received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the
Polytechnic Institute of Cluj, Romania, in 1979, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Sciences
from the Linköping University, Sweden, in 1995. He is currently the head of the Systems
Development Dept. for Force Measurement and Systems at ABB Automation Products,
Sweden. He is an Adjunct Professor at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA, from
1997 and member of the Advisory Board of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty
at the same university from 1998. He is an associated professor at Örebro University, Sweden,
from 2000. His research interests include discrete control, control of complex industrial
systems, discrete fault detection and isolation, ontological control, software architectures. He
is the author of one book and some 30 conference and journal articles.
Anani Ananiev is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor
Systems at Örebro University. He received his Dipl.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering and
Ph.D. in Robotics and Automation from the Technical University of Sofia in 1987 and 1992
respectively. He is an associate professor (on leave) at the Dept. of Robotics and
Mechatronics, Institute of Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Science. He has
been a visiting researcher at the Robotics Laboratory of the Wuppertal University , Germany,
1994 -1998; and Dept. of Robotics at the Institute Superior Technico, Lisbon, 1995-1997. He
has 65 conference/journal publications, 27 patents and has received 2 bronze medals at
INPEX IX (US Invention New Product Trade Show) in 1993. His research interests include
robotics, supper fast robot arms, light-weight robot arms.
Prof. Dimiter Driankov received the BSc Math degree, the MSc degree in Computer Science
from the University of Sofia, Faculty of Mathematics, Sofia, Bulgaria, and the PhD degree in
Computer Science from the Univ. of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden in 1973, 1975, and 1988
repectively. From 1985 to 2000 he was with the Dept. of Comp. Sci.,Univ. of Linköping
where he was heading the Autonomous Systems Lab (1996-1999). At present he is a visiting
researcher with the Division for Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems at
this department and a member of the Wallenberg Lab for Information Technology and
Autonomous Systems. Since 2001 he is a professor at the Technology Dept., Örebro Univ.,
Örebro, Sweden acting as a research coordinator for the Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems
Center. During the period 1990--1997 he has spent a total of three years as Visiting Scientist
at Siemens Corporate R & D, Munich, Germany. He is a member of the IEEE Technical