UAM and UTM

General info

• Welcome to the class! A word of caution: Information on this site is not final until the class starts

• Instructor: Leonid Sedov (email: leonid.sedov@liu.se)

• Schedule 2025:

  • f2f meetings 

    • Intro, Assignments&Grading: Tuesday, week 45 (Nov 4 in 2025), 10-12

    • 15-17 on Wed, Nov 18 in TP52 (mandatory): guest lecture by Billy Josefsson (Avtech, LiU, Space2Ground)

    • test (mandatory): Wed week 51 (Dec 18 in 2025) 10:15-12:00

  • Otherwise no specific times — go through the slides and watch the videos at your pace, and submit the project; contact the lecturer with questions whenever you have them

  • Office hours: Mon, Wed, Fri 14-15 (please ping the lecturer to schedule a Zoom or in-person meeting)

• This year, for the first time we are helping with Transportstyrelsen's test for drönarkort (Open Category, A1/A3)

  • Read the manual for A1/A3 to prepare for the test

    • There is a possibility we can subsidise the cost of the test, contact the examiner

  • The students who have ett drönarkort are welcome to join us at one of the two occasions to fly drones at the Norrköping airport (week 50 Wed Dec 10 14:00-16:00 and week 51 Wed Dec 17 14:00-16:00)

    • Those who want to do that, please pick one of the days here. No more than 5-6 students per occasions.

  • Help with the preparation for the drönarkortsprov will be provided during the ordinary office hours (see above).

• Checklist of activities mandatory for passing the course (for details see the Assignments&Grading above):

  • UPG2 (4.5 hp)

    • Completing the project

    • Passing the test

  • UPG3 (1.5 hp)

    • Visiting all guest lectures

Assignments

• Class project: report or coding (mandatory to do one). No deadline (recommendation: do it after studying the course material)

• Homework (optional)

• Practice  test (optional)

Guest lectures (no videos)

We are very thankful to the organizations who kindly present in our classes 

• 2021: Lecture by Kaija Sterner from LFV

• 2022: Lecture by former FTL students Christoffer Massinger and Ola Andersson (now with Transportstyrelsen, UTM experts)

• 2024:

  • Lecture by Annette Macrae-Bystedt, Ola Härkegård, and Per Malmström from UMS Skeldar (video of a similar presentation)

  • Lecture by Jean-Marie Skoglund with help from Katarina Wigler and Max Ohlsson from Trafikverket as well as Christoffer Massinger from Transportstyrelsen

  • Workshop by Katarina Wigler with help from Jean-Marie Skoglund and Max Ohlsson from Trafikverket as well as Christoffer Massinger from Transportstyrelsen