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We improve efficiency and reduce costs. What do traffic networks, wind farms, Facebook and economic markets have in common? They are all large-scale networked systems, which can be analyzed and optimized using automatic control techniques. By developing scalable methods for control and optimization, researchers at the Department of Automatic Control are contributing to solving one of the greatest

https://www.control.lth.se/research/large-scale-systems-and-learning - 2026-10-15

We combine scientific expertise with industrial competence. Considering Ericsson’s forecasy (Ericsson's website) that 47 billion devices will be connected to the Internet in 2030, 22 billion being IoT (Internet of Things (Wikipedia) devices, and the emergence of the Industrial IoT (Wikipedia) and Industry 4.0 (Wikipedia)/5.0, researchers in Autonomous Real-Time Systems will be kept very busy. Thei

https://www.control.lth.se/research/autonomous-real-time-systems - 2026-10-15

We translate ideas into sustainable and useful products and services. This is an area of application-driven research motivated by the desire to create a more sustainable society. It addresses several of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (United Nations' website), in particular numbers 3, 4, 9, and 12: Good Health and Well-Being, Quality Education, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, a

https://www.control.lth.se/research/innovative-control-applications - 2026-10-15

Our department delivers education and research in control and learning systems. We give basic and advanced-level courses in control and learning within the regular engineering programme to students from different areas of engineering. Our vision: We are a world-class department that educates, explores, and advances control technologyIn 2020 we launched an international Master's programme in System

https://www.control.lth.se/about - 2026-10-15

Job vacancies with us are also advertised in Lund University's job portal. Teaching Assistant positions (opens in Canvas)

https://www.control.lth.se/about/job-vacancies - 2026-10-15

We explain and study dynamical systems, learning and control The department offers education at all university levels, including first-cycle basic control courses, second-cycle elective courses, and third-cycle doctoral courses. Our basic and advanced courses attract more than 1200 students in total each year. Since 2020, we run a two-year Master's programme in Machine Learning, Systems and Contro

https://www.control.lth.se/education - 2026-10-15

Doctors and Licentiates Graduated from the departmentName Techical Licenciate examPhD examCurrent employmentKarl EklundJan 1969Jan 1972Passed away, Feb 23 2014Krister MårtenssonApr 1970May 1972Self-employedBengt PetterssonOct 1970-RetiredTorsten Söderström-May 1973Professor emeritus, Systems and Control Group Uppsala UniversityBjörn WittenmarkJun 1971May 1973Professor emeritus, Automatic Control ,

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CoursesPhD courses at other departments at LTH (Third-cycle course website LTH)Courses at Centre for Engineering Education (CEE's website)2025Robust ControlLinear Systems (Canvas)2024Control System Synthesis (Canvas)2023Causal inference and control (GitHub)Convex optimizationOptimal controlPragmatic Programming2022Feedback control theory (Third-cycle course website LTH)Julia for scientific program

https://www.control.lth.se/education/third-cycle-courses - 2026-10-15

Automatic Control is sometimes referred to as ‘the hidden technology’, as it is all around us without us even realising it. Automatic Control is about ensuring that processes automatically behave in the desired manner. The subject is probably best explained through a number of examples.Cruise control for cars and autopilots for aeroplanes and ships are examples of control engineering. Speeds and p

https://www.control.lth.se/about/what-automatic-control - 2026-10-15

The aim of this initiative is to gather a collection of portraits of women who has or will influence the field of Automatic Control. The project has two parts: Historical female influencersFemales that worked in control engineering over the decades and left their mark, paved the way for today's female professionals and constitute important role-models for young female students. The purpose is to d

https://www.control.lth.se/collaboration-and-outreach/female-influencers-automatic-control - 2026-10-15

Explore the field of control technology with us Collaboration is one of the university's main tasks and an important activity for our department. Collaboration includes collaborations with industry and organisations, outreach activities, lifelong learning opportunities for professionals, public communication, bringing innovations to the market and creating networks for peers.Collaboration is a mea

https://www.control.lth.se/collaboration-and-outreach - 2026-10-15

These forms of collaborations work with our PhD students and with faculty staff. Our Director of Research-studies Pontus Giselsson, and our Head of Department Karl-Erik Årzén, organise and coordinate many of these activities. Partner in a Research projectA partner in a research project, works together with us in formulating research questions, submitting proposals to funding agencies, and, if the

https://www.control.lth.se/collaboration-in-research - 2026-10-15

The Department of Automatic Control is one of the departments at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) at Lund University. Our research is focused on the sustainable and safe operation of technical systems to the benefit of people and the planet. Researchers at our department contribute to a majority of the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (United Nations' website). We also contribute t

https://www.control.lth.se/research - 2026-10-15

School visits Welcoming school children and high-school students to our department, we regularly participate in the following outreach activities at LTH and in Lund:Robotics Week (on the website of AI Lund, in Swedish) Kulturnatten (on the website of the municipality of Lund, in Swedish)We are also contributing to the exhibitions and experiments at Vattenhallen Science Center.

https://www.control.lth.se/collaboration-and-outreach/visits-and-outreach-activities - 2026-10-15

The aim of this initiative is to gather a collection of portraits of women who worked in control engineering over the decades and left their mark. The purpose is to document their role and importance in the field of control engineering and to highlight the role of women for today’s students.There are some early female historical influencers (retired or emeritus female professionals) who have serve

https://www.control.lth.se/collaboration-and-outreach/female-influencers-automatic-control/historical-female-influencers-automatic-control - 2026-10-15

The aim of this initiative is to look ahead and investigate the hopes, wishes, ideas and aspirations of young female students and professionals. For this purpose, a questionnaire to capture the voices of future female control engineers, has been designed. Assuming that the field of automatic control will be as relevant in the future as it is today (or even more!), it is of intetest to know how you

https://www.control.lth.se/collaboration-and-outreach/female-influencers-automatic-control/future-female-influencers-automatic-control - 2026-10-15

Outreach activities, and related material, for the project "Historical Female Influencers in Automatic Control" are described on this page. The list of activities is presented in cronological order with the most recent activity on top. Recording of the inControl podcastNovember 26, 2025Listen to the recording on the website of inControl.  Exhibition at the ELLIIT annual workshopOctober 21-22, 2025

https://www.control.lth.se/collaboration-and-outreach/female-influencers-automatic-control/outreach - 2026-10-15

Russian mathematician (1850-1891) Sofya Kovalevskaya is one of the first women to become a professor of mathematics and is also one of the most successful and important mathematicians of all time. Affiliation: Heidelberg University (Germany), Stockholm University (Sweden)In addition to excellent research and significant contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and the mechanic

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German mathematician and pioneer in aviation theory (1903-1974) Irmgard Flügge-Lotz was a German mathematician and pioneer in aviation theory and the theory of discontinuous automatic control. She is particularly known for her advancements in the spanwise lift distribution of an airplane wing, known as the Lotz method, and the development of the on-off control. Affiliation: Stanford UniversityI wa

https://www.control.lth.se/collaboration-and-outreach/female-influencers-automatic-control/historical-female-influencers-automatic-control/irmgard-flugge-lotz - 2026-10-15

German engineer and expert in control systems for satellites and high-speed trains (1931-2023) Eveline Gottzein is a German mathematician and aerospace engineer who is a specialist in the altitude and orbital control of satellites and control systems for the guidance of high-speed magnetic levitation trains. Affiliation: University of Stuttgart, Bölkow Entwicklungen KG (later MBB), and Airbus Grou

https://www.control.lth.se/collaboration-and-outreach/female-influencers-automatic-control/historical-female-influencers-automatic-control/eveline-gottzein - 2026-10-15