Appoinments
Vice President
R&D, Marine Cybernetics AS from 2002-2007
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.
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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