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Publications:
Papers
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Students:
PhD candidates
MSc students

Teaching:
TTK4190 Guidance and control of vehicles

TK8109 Advanced topics in guidance and navigation

Software
MSS Matlab toolbox
marinecontrol.org

Misc.
Patents
Appointments and awards

Laboratories
MCLab
AUR-Lab
Research vessel
UAV-Lab

BioSketch: Fossen is a naval architect and a cyberneticist. He received the MSc degree in Marine Technology in 1987 and PhD degree in Engineering Cybernetics in 1991 both from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim. In the period 1989-1990 he pursued postgraduate studies as a Fulbright scholar in flight control at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Washington, Seattle. He was appointed professor of guidance, navigation and control at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU at age 30. In 1999, Fossen was elected into the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. He is teaching, mathematical modeling of aircraft, marine craft, unmanned vehicles and control theory. Fossen has authored more than 300 scientific papers and five textbooks. He has been senior scientifc advisor for ABB (1992-2002). Fossen is one of the co-founders/owners of Marine Cybernetics AS where he was Vice President R&D in the period 2002-2008. In 2008-2012 he was Head of Automatic Control at the CoE in Ships and Ocean Structures. He is currently co-director of the CoE in Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems (2013-2022). His expertise covers guidance, navigation, nonlinear control theory, autonomous and intelligent systems, vehicle dynamics, hydrodynamics, vehicle simulators, design of dynamic positioning (DP) system for free-floating and moored ships, nonlinear observers for marine craft and unmanned vehicles, autopilots, trajectory tracking, path following, maneuvering control, identification of ship dynamics from sea trials and strapdown GNSS/INS navigation systems. Fossen holds several patens on HIL-testing technology for maritime and offshore systems (2005-2009). A patent for weather optimal positioning control of marine vessels was granted in 1998. This work received the Automatica Prize Paper Award in 2002. He has alsoo been involved in the design of the SeaLaunch trim and heel correction systems. In 2008 he received the Arch T. Colwell Merit Award at the SAE 2008 World Congress for a paper entitled Nonlinear Observer for Vehicle Velocity Estimation. Three of his former PhD candidates, Dr. Jann Peter Strand (2000), Professor Ole Morten Aamo (2003) and Professor Roger Skjetne (2005) have received an award for best PhD thesis at NTNU.

Fields of Research [Publications, Patents]

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Textbooks

Fossen, T. I. (2011). Handbook of Marine Craft Hydrodynamics and Motion Control. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-1199-9149-6, Kindle: avaialble at www.amazon.com.
Fossen, T. I. (1994). Guidance and Control of Ocean Vehicles, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Hardcover: ISBN 0-471-94113-1
Fossen, T. I. (2002). Marine Control Systems. Marine Cybernetics. ISBN 82-92356-00-2. Out of production.

Editorials

Fossen, T. I. and H. Nijmeijer (2012). Parametric Resonance in Dynamical Systems, Springer. ISBN 978-1-4614-1042-3.
Nijmeijer, H. and T. I. Fossen (1999). New Directions in Nonlinear Observer Design, Springer. ISBN 1-852-33134-8.