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Professor Thor I. Fossen PhD Engineering Cybernetics, MSc Marine Technology, Fulbright Alumni Professor of Guidance, Navigation and Control
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BioSketch: I received
my 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 I pursued postgraduate studies as a Fulbright
scholar in flight control at the Department
of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Washington, Seattle.
In 1993 I was appointed as a Professor of Guidance, Navigation
and Control at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics where I
am teaching, mathematical modeling of aircraft, marine craft, unmanned vehicles and control theory. I have authored approximately 300 scientific papers and five textbooks. I am one of the founders/owners of Marine
Cybernetics AS where I have been Vice President R&D in the period 2002-2008. In 2002-2012 I was head of automatic control at the CoE on Ships and Ocean Structures, NTNU. I have also been senior scientifc advisor for ABB (1998-2002). My expertise covers guidance, navigation, nonlinear control theory, vehicle dynamics, hydrodynamics, marine craft simulators, design of dynamic positioning (DP) system for free-floating
and moored ships, nonlinear and passive state estimators 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. I hold 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. I have also been involved
in the design of the SeaLaunch trim
and heel correction systems. In 2008 I 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 my 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.
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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. Editorials Fossen, T. I. and H. Nijmeijer (2012). Parametric Resonance in Dynamical Systems, Springer. ISBN 978-1-4614-1042-3. |
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