Prizes and Appointments: Professor Thor I. Fossen

Appoinments

Vice President R&D, Marine Cybernetics AS from 2002-2007
bullet Head of Automatic Control at the Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures (CESOS) - Norwegian Centre of Excellence, NTNU from 2007-present
Key Scientist at the Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures (CESOS) - Norwegian Centre of Excellence, NTNU from 2002-2007
Key Scientist Strategic University Program (SUP) on "Computational Methods in Nonlinear Motion Control", NTNU from 2004-2009
Key Scientist Strategic University Program (SUP) on "Marine Cybernetics", NTNU from 1998-2003
Associate Editor of Automatica from 2003-2005
Member of the Board: SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics from 2003-2004
Member of the Board: Marine Cybernetics AS from 2003-2005
Head of Project on Control of Offshore Moonpool Crane Operations (Hydro) from 2000-2002
Member of the NFA (the national IFAC member organization) Expert Panel from 2000
Member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) from 1999
Local Project Manager, Marintronics, Eureka Project 1999-2001
Chair IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems (CAMS'98)
Head of Project on Nonlinear Observer Design for GPS/INS Navigation (ABB/Hydro) from 1998-2001
Chair IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems (CAMS'95)
Chair IEEE Oceanic Engineering/Control System Joint Society Chapter, Norway Section 1995-2000
Vice Chair IFAC Technical Committee on Marine Systems 1994-1999
Fulbright Sholar at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Washington, Seattle in 1989/1990

Paper Awards

Awarded the 2006 Arch T. Colwell Merit Award in 2008 at the SAE World Congress for Nonlinear Observer for Vehicle Velocity Estimation authored by L. Imsland, T. A. Johansen, T. I. Fossen, J. C. Kalkkuhl and A. Suissa.
bullet Awarded the Automatica Paper Prize in 2002 for Nonlinear Passive Weather Optimal Positioning Control (WOPC) System for Ships and Rigs: Experimental Results, Automatica, vol. 37, 2001, pages 701-715 co-authored by Dr. Jann Peter Strand.
Marintek Paper Award 2001 - S. P. Berge and T. I. Fossen (2000). On the Properties of the Nonlinear Ship Equations of Motion, Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems. JMCMDS-6(4):365-381.
Best student paper at CAMS'98 - J. P. Strand and T. I. Fossen (1998). Nonlinear Output Feedback and Locally Optimal Control of Dynamically Positioned Ships: Experimental Results, Proc. IFAC Conf. on Control Appl. in Marine Syst. (CAMS'98), Fukuoka, Japan, pp. 89-95

Awards given to Students

The ESSO Price in 2005 for the best Doctoral Thesis at NTNU on Applied Research was awarded Dr. Roger Skjetne for his thesis entitled "The Maneuvering Problem"
The ESSO Price in 2003 for the best Doctoral Thesis at NTNU on Fundamental Research was awarded Dr. Ole Morten Aamofor his thesis entitled "Modeling and Control of Fluid Flows and Marine Structure"
The ESSO Price in 2000 for the best Doctoral Thesis at NTNU on Applied Research was awarded Dr. Jann Peter Strand for his thesis entitled "Nonlinear Position Control Systems Design for Marine Vessels"
The ABB Corporate Research price in 2000 for the best M.Sc. thesis at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics was awarded K. Kvam
Award for the best young researcher in electrical engineering in 1998 (Elektronikkens pris for beste resultat i sesjonen Yngre Forskere under Studiemøtet for Elektronikk og Data) was awarded Å. Grøvlen
The ABB Corporate Research price for the best M.Sc. thesis at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics was awarded K. P. Lindeggard in 1998
A price for outstanding M.Sc. results at NTNU was awarded Marius Five Aarset 1997
Fulbright scholarship to Ole Morten Aamo 1997
A price for outstanding M.Sc. results at NTNU was awarded Jørgen Lorentz 1996
A price for outstanding M.Sc. results at NTNU was awarded Knut E. Husa 1996
Fulbright scholarship to Trygve Lauvsal in 1995
Fulbright scholarship to Alf G. Bringaker in 1993


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