Nicholas Wickström
Nicholas Wickström, Associate Professor, PhD
Family Name: Wickström
Given Name: Nicholas
Role: Associate Professor
Title: PhD
Subject: Computer Systems Engineering
Organization:
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Phone: +46-35-167382
Cell Phone: +46-72-7419268
Courses: Design of Embedded and Intelligent Systems (15 credits) Computer Systems Engineering I (7.5 credits), Computer Systems Engineering II (7.5 credits)
Subject areas: Computer Engineering, Learning Systems
Projects: Centre for Health Technology Halland - HCH, Hmc2, SELIES, AccelGait, Research
Tasks
- Research: conducted within the research programme CERES (Centre for Research on Embedded Systems) and in the area of health technology.
- Teaching: under graduate and graduate level
- External Relations: Involved in HCH, strengthen small businesses through innovation and research.
- Administration: member of School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering - board of directors (2006-2012, vice chairman the last three years).
- Advisory: Individual expert for EU-TEMPUS project JEP-25039-2004 (2004-2008)
- Research Administration: Reviewer, member of program committee, grant applications.
Research Interests
- Virtual Sensing
- Artificial Neural Networks
- Signal Processing
- Statistical Data Analysis
- Diagnosis
- Sensor Networks
Current Courses and Teaching Duties
- [DST I] Responsible for the Computer Systems Engineering I (7.5 credits) course on the Computer Systems -, Electrical -, Mechatronical Engineering Programs.
- [DST II] Responsible for the Computer Systems Engineering II (7.5 credits) course on the Computer Systems -, Electrical -, Mechatronical Engineering Programs.
- Involved in Design of Embedded and Intelligent Systems (15 credits).
- Supervisor of Bachelors and Masters thesis projects.
Recent and Past Teaching Duties
- Summer course in programming Programmering, C, 5p, examiner.
- Real-time programming, 6p, examiner.
- Seminars for the learning systems course on the masters programme.
- Teaching informatics students how to program Java, (laborations and exercises).
- Introductory course for computer systems engineering students, organizer and examiner.
- Algorithms and Data Structures on the international masters program.
- [DSPT] Teaching Innovation Engineering students (U3) compter engineering Dator- och datorsystemteknik, 5p.
- Supervisor of Bachelors and Masters thesis projects.
Media
- UR - (in swedish) Utbildningsradion sände: IT och datoranvändning för tekniker och ingenjörer 5p distanskurs. I det sista delkursmomentet medverkar jag och Denni i avsnittet "Intelligens byggs in i framtidens datorer".
- P1 - (in swedish) Vetenskaps Radion sände ett nyhetsinslag den 20 Juli 1998 och ett längre program den 25 Juli 1998 om SCALE.
- SVT - Västnytt - (in swedish) sände ett inslag om SCALE i Februari 1999.
- Sweden Today (No4 2008) - link
- Vetenskapslandet (in Swedish) - link
Journal publications registered in DiVA
Anita Sant'Anna, Arash Salarian, Nicholas Wickström (2011). A new measure of movement symmetry in early Parkinson's disease patients using symbolic processing of inertial sensor data. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 58(7), pp. 2127-2135
Anita Sant'Anna, Nicholas Wickström (2010). A Symbol-Based Approach to Gait Analysis From Acceleration Signals : Identification and Detection of Gait Events and a New Measure of Gait Symmetry. IEEE transactions on information technology in biomedicine, 14(5), pp. 1180-1187
Thomas Grubinger, Nicholas Wickström, Anders Björklund, Magnus Hellring (2009). Knowledge Extraction from Real-World Logged Truck Data. SAE International Journal of Commercial Vehicles, 2(1), pp. 64-74
Wagner Ourique de Morais, Anita Sant'Anna, Nicholas Wickström (2008). A Wearable Accelerometer Based Platform to Encourage Physical Activity for the Elderly. Gerontechnology : international journal on the fundamental aspects of technology to serve the ageing society, 07(02), pp. 129-181
Anita Sant'Anna, Wagner Ourique de Morais, Nicholas Wickström (2008). Gait Unsteadiness Analysis from Motion Primitives. Gerontechnology : international journal on the fundamental aspects of technology to serve the ageing society, 7(2), pp. 204-
Nicholas Wickström, Stefan Byttner, Ulf Holmberg (2005). Robust tuning of Individual Cylinders AFR in SI Engines with the Ion Current. SAE Transactions, 114(03), pp. 48-52
Axel Franke, Patrik Einewall, Bengt Johansson, Nicholas Wickström, Raymond Reinmann, Anders Larsson (2003). The effect of in-cylinder gas flow on the interpretation of the ionization sensor signal. SAE transactions, 112(03), pp. 1595-1600
Magnus Hellring, Thomas Munther, Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson, Nicholas Wickström, Christian Carlsson, Magnus Larsson, Jan Nytomt (1999). Spark advance control using the ion current and neural soft sensors. SAE transactions, 108(03), pp. 1590-1595
Magnus Hellring, Thomas Munther, Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson, Nicholas Wickström, Christian Carlsson, Magnus Larsson, Jan Nytomt (1999). Robust AFR estimation using the ion current and neural networks. SAE transactions, 108(03), pp. 1585-1589
Conference publications registered in DiVA
Wagner Ourique de Morais, Nicholas Wickström (2011). A Serious Computer Game to Assist Tai Chi Training for the Elderly. Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH), 2011 IEEE 1st International Conference on
Anita Sant'Anna, Nicholas Wickström (2010). A Linguistic Approach to the Analysis of Accelerometer Data for Gait Analysis. Proceeding (680) Biomedical Engineering
Anita Sant'Anna, Nicholas Wickström (2009). Developing a Motion Language: Gait Analysis from Accelerometer Sensor Systems. Pervasive Health 2009 : 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
Stefan Byttner, Ulf Holmberg, Nicholas Wickström (2005). Using Multiple Cylinder Ion Measurements for Improved Estimation of Combustion Variability. , SAE Technical Paper
Stefan Byttner, Ulf Holmberg, Nicholas Wickström (2004). An Ion Current Algorithm for Fast Determination of High Combustion Variability. , SAE Technical paper
Stefan Byttner, Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson, Nicholas Wickström (2001). Strategies for Handling the Fuel Additive Problem in Neural Network Based Ion Current Interpretation. , SAE International
Stefan Byttner, Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson, Nicholas Wickström (2001). Estimation of Combustion Variability Using In-Cylinder Ionization Measurements. , SAE technical paper series
Magnus Hellring, Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson, Nicholas Wickström, Magnus Larsson (2000). Ion current based pressure peak detection under different air humidity conditions. Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2000
Magnus Jonsson, Per-Arne Wiberg, Nicholas Wickström (1997). Vision-based low-level navigation using a feed-forward neural network. Proc. International Workshop on Mechatronical Computer Systems for Perception and Action (MCPA'97), Pisa, Italy, Feb. 10-12
Nicholas Wickström, Mikael Taveniku, Arne Linde, Magnus Larsson, Bertil Svensson (1997). Estimating pressure peak position and air-fuel ratio using the ionization current and artificial neural networks. IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems : proceedings, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, November 9-12, 1997
