Björn Lindqvist

About me

Dr. Björn Lindqvist is an Associate Senior Lecturer in the Robotics & AI Group. He received his PhD in Robotics & Artificial Intelligence at the Robotics and AI Team Luleå University of Technology in 2023. He works mainly in collision avoidance and path planning for aerial and legged robots, with a focus on the applications of such technologies and their deployment in the field.He was part of the NASA-JPL led Team CoSTAR in the DARPA SubT Challenge working on robot exploration in unknown and unstructured subterranean environments, specifically in the search-and-rescue context.
Over the last years he has worked extensively with deploying autonomous UAVs in the Mining Industry in the NEXGEN SIMS and illuMINEation EU Horizon 2020 projects, for increasing worker safety and for automating inspection and surveying technologies. Björn also works on autonomous robot inspection and mine rescue technologies in the SUM (Sustainable Underground Mining) Academy project together with Swedish mining company LKAB.

His work on using autonomous robots for search-and-rescue operations was put on the IVA-100 list of impactful research projects in 2023. https://www.iva.se/det-iva-gor/utmarkelser/ivas-100-lista/unification-of-ground-and-aerial-robots-for-creating-advanced-emergency-response-missions-after-a-crisis/

Björn has published scientific works on UAV autonomy in several top journals and conferences, such as the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and the Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems. More info at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WKC0cbMAAAAJ&hl=sv