Articles about EISLAB

Minister kicked off Arrowhead Tools

Partners, financiers and work package leaders, have met in Gothenburg to kick-off the Arrowhead Tools project. Invited guests were also present, not the least Ibrahim Baylan, the Sweden’s Minister for Business, Industry and Innovation.

Successful project with remote controlled mobile machines in mine

Remote controlled vehicles will make mining both safer and more efficient. The project WROOMM has ended and the researchers at Luleå University of Technology have taken a step closer to the vision of the autonomous mine.

Innovative rock bolt raises interest internationally

The smart rock bolt ThingWave, developed by researchers Jens Eliasson and Pablo Punal Pereira at Luleå University of Technology, is expected to fully contribute to a increase in safety in mines. Mining companies around the world now show great interest in the product.


Closure for successful Arrowhead Project

Europe's largest research project in automation – Arrowhead – is about to end. – We have delivered far better than anyone dared to hope when the project started, says Jerker Delsing, project coordinator and professor of Industrial Electronics at Luleå University of Technology.

Unique laser navigator helps visually impaired

A laser navigator that complements the white cane and helps visually impaired people to orientate themselves. In Daniel Innala Ahlmark’s doctoral thesis in Industrial Electronics, he presents a unique solution to how visually impaired can find and experience direction and distance to objects in the environment.

Remote-controlled vehicles can extinguish fires

A fire in a mine is associated with several risks for both miners as firefighters. Therefore, researchers at Luleå University of Technology has examined the possibility of using remote-controlled vehicles to extinguish fires in mines.

Cleanroom for unique research inaugurated

Lower production costs, reduced power consumption and faster electronics. Today, Luleå University of Technology's new clean room was inaugurated, a laboratory for unique research within the realm of future electronic solutions.

Innovation for smarter electricity

Fredrik Häggström, PhD student at EISLAB and SKF LTU Technology Centre, has been awarded Bygginnovationens Lilla pris for his innovation HomePower. Through Home Power, it gets easier for small producers of renewable energy to access the electricity market.

Fifty billion green sensors

Sensors and electronics that live on harvested energy from renewable sources - three LTU researcher has won prize for their article at the conference Sensorcomm 13.

She Studies the Sound of Light

Ph.D student Erika Svanström transmits laser pulses into materials and then analyzes the ultrasound that’s created from light interacting with the sample in order to determine the properties of the material. In the future she hopes that her work will help to facilitate diagnosis in the area of biomedicine.

LTU starts collab with Swedish Kraftnät

Disturbances in the Swedish grid regularly effects equipment at energy producers which can lead to production stoppages. The Swedish authority Svenska Kraftnät is now initiating a joint effort with Luleå University of Technology worth 15 million Swedish kronor to solve the problem.

New modeling tool from LTU streamline product development att ABB

The multinational corportation ABB has a new supplement that improves efficiency and reduces the cost of product development. The tool has been developed by researchers at the Department of computer science, electrical and space engineering (EISLAB) at Luleå university of technology.

The sighted wheelchair - successful first test drive of "sighted" wheelchair

Published:27 February 2016
Updated: 27 February 2016
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