The MT1556 Innovative and Sustainable Product Development course became the first undergraduate course to utilize the Virtual Production Studio Lab (VPSL). This milestone occurred during the final presentations of the course’s six-week mini-product development project, where 58 students, divided into 11 teams, presented innovative ideas to enhance cycling safety.
The Energy Agency has approved the project “Converge II – CONVERGE II – A Solution for Energy Distribution in Road Construction and Quarries”, totaling 51 MSEK in budget. There is currently a lack of a satisfactory system solution for electrical energy distribution that serves a fleet of machines with 1) high utilization rates and 2) the ability to handle high...
I syfte att sätta fokus på akuta klimatfrågor som stigande havsnivåer och vattenbrist i Blekinge tar BTH och Region Blekinge hjälp av ny teknik. Målet är att den nya tekniken ska öka medborgarnas medvetenhet om klimatförändringar samt hjälpa myndigheter att planera och utforma lösningar för klimatanpassning.
The 24th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED23) was held in Bordeaux, France, from July 24-28, 2023. The conference theme was “Design in a Complex World,” and it explored the challenges and opportunities of designing for a world that is increasingly complex, interconnected, and uncertain. The conference featured a variety of sessions, including plenary talks, podium presentations, discussion panels, and...
RESIST is a five-year project that has emerged from the need to make regions more resilient to climate change. The project will adopt a new practical framework in which climate adaptation pathways will be tested in four EU regions with different socioeconomic profiles: Southwest Finland, Central Denmark, Catalonia and Central Portugal. Each region will test adaptation solutions to five key climate challenges: floods,...
The rock material industry is one of the 21 industries that participate and together these 21 cover more than 70 percent of the emissions in Sweden. Achieving the high environmental goals in rock material production requires not only a transition to fossil- and emission-free operations, but also new thinking in terms of process and new machine concepts. The approach is...
The “Elektrifierad Infrastrukturbyggnation” was a feasibility study conducted in close collaboration between Volvo Construction Equipment, Lund University and Blekinge University of Technology, funded by the Swedish Transport Administration. It aimed at investigating the conditions for carrying out major infrastructure projects emission- and fossil-free. The E20-Vårgårda-Bälinge road section was chosen as main case study in the project.
In order to achieve scalability and robustness, verification and validation (V&V) of self-driving vehicle systems need to be largely performed virtually. This requires validated models on sensors, vehicles and environments where the systems are to operate. The aim of this pre-study is to identify state-of-the-art (SoA) and high-priority research questions within methods for validating models required for virtual V&V of...
Abstract Recent economic transformations have forced companies to redefine their value propositions, increasing traditional product offerings with supplementary services— the so-called Product-Service System (PSS). Among them, the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies is very common. However, the directions that companies are under- taking to offer new value to their customers in the Industry 4.0 have not yet been investigated in...
The pandemic situation put an effective hold on the physical venue in Dubrovnik where the 16th International DESIGN conference was planned before the summer. Now the biannual DESIGN event organised by the Design Society were forced into an online version instead. Being a main forum to exchange experiences and lessons learned about engineering design from a variety of perspectives, disciplines,...
