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KTH placed high in competition of cooperative and automated driving
Published Jul 01, 2016During the weekend of 28 and 29 May 2016, the city of Helmond was the centre of an international event in the field of cooperative driving: the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge (GCDC). Out of ten s...
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Meet Rui Oliveira, industry-employed Ph.D. student in WASP
Published May 31, 2016This spring, four industry-employed PhD-students were recruited to the Wallenberg Autonomous Systems Program (WASP) at KTH. One of them is Rui Filipe De Sousa Olivera who, beside his new position at K...
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The clean room at focus of the project Nanonets2Sense
Published May 27, 2016The work to find out how to minimize sensors to simplify medical analysis methods continues. KTH has now been commissioned to develop a technology which could revolutionize the health care system.
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Göran Gustafsson award to Cristian Rojas
Published May 25, 2016The Göran Gustafsson Foundation has named Cristian Rojas as one of this year's recipients of the Göran Gustafsson awards. The prize is given to young researchers and is worth half a million SEK.
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Tests show how trucks can reuse engine heat for power
Published May 20, 2016A 195-year-old discovery is behind a new system that will save vehicles hundreds of litres of fuel and reduce their carbon emissions by as much as 2 to 3 tonnes per year.
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To Puerto Rico with a device that gains energy from WiFi and 3G signals
Published Apr 26, 2016Oskar Björkqvist, Oskar Dahlberg and Gustaf Silver decided to take the advanced course in theoretical electrical engineering in spring 2015. That decision has lead to a final position in an internatio...
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ACCESS Linnaeus Research center celebrates 10 year anniversary
Published Apr 26, 2016During the last ten years, the ACCESS Linnaeus center has conducted successful research within the broad area of networked systems. A total of 60 faculty members and postdocs and 100 PhD students from...
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Ericsson and KTH make a hotbed for innovation
Published Apr 15, 2016The close ties between KTH and telecom giant Ericsson allow for a two-way learning process. And as electrical engineering and telecom move towards digital engineering, the EE school is ramping up its ...
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Bridge builders between academia and society
Published Apr 15, 2016As one of four adjunct professors at the School of Electrical Engineering, Lennart Harnefors makes sure that the research conducted and scientific knowledge gained effectively meet the needs of people...
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64 million SEK grant to the EE School
Published Apr 15, 2016The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, (SSF) is giving two projects at the School of Electrical Engineering grants of a total of 64 million SEK. The projects are led by Dimos Dimarogonas and K...
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Researchers have "come a long way" with self-driving trucks
Published Apr 14, 2016A self-driving truck under development by Scania and KTH researchers has tested successfully at speeds of up to 90 kilometres-per-hour.
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Welcome to Kista Makerspace
Published Apr 12, 2016The Kista Mentorspace has officially opened at KTH the School for Information and Communication Technology. Professor Mark Smith explains the new concept.
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Firefighters' positioning system may be used to monitor walking difficulty for elderly
Published Apr 08, 2016A positioning system adapted for use in fire rescue operations will soon be tested on senior citizens in Sweden as a way to spot signs of early stage Parkinson's disease and other mobility problems.
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Start for KTH’s WASP Graduate school
Published Mar 30, 2016KTH has recruited six PhD students to the Wallenberg Autonomous Systems Program (WASP). This is part of the launch of the WASP Graduate School which goal is to educate over 100 PhD students over the n...
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Keeping placement at the top
Published Mar 23, 2016In last year’s prestigious QS ranking, KTH placed in the very top within the subject of “Electrical & Electronic Engineering”. This year, KTH ranks as 17 in the world and once more places in the top.
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Material enables more reliable and meaningful self-screening
Published Feb 25, 2016Paper-based diagnostics enable rapid medical test results at minimal cost — and now they're about to get even better. A new synthetic paper developed by KTH researchers could enable simultaneous scree...
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Breakthrough for lab-on-a-chip material
Published Feb 24, 2016Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology have developed a new polymer suited for photostructuring — a technique for creating micro-scale shapes. The discovery opens new possibilities for medic...
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MPC allows heavy-duty vehicles to drive by themselves
Published Feb 11, 2016Autonomous vehicles have become a popular research field in the last decade. Mostly, the research is conducted with private cars or other small vehicles in mind. But where does that leave the industry...
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Method for tiny cracks in electrodes may mean big boost for nanoelectronics
Published Feb 03, 2016The next generation of electronics, as well as ultra-sensitive medical diagnostics, could depend on near atomic scale cracks — or nanogaps — in electrodes. Now there's a method that could pave the way...
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"While teaching you always have to find a good balance between cutting edge topics and fundamentals"
Paolo Monti, Docent Published Nov 26, 2015Paolo Monti has worked as a researcher at KTH since 2008. He completed his undergraduate studies in Italy but came to KTH via USA where he spent almost eight years as a researcher both in academia and...
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