• Nonlinear Observers for Parametric Roll 

      Olsen, Gunnhild Konstanse Hoff (Master thesis, 2012)
      Parametric roll resonance is a dangerous resonance phenomenon affecting several kinds of ships, such as cruise ships, fishing vessels and container ships. In a worst case scenario parametric roll resonance may lead to roll ...
    • Object Detection and Tracking Based on Optical Flow in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 

      Helgesen, Håkon Hagen (Master thesis, 2015)
      In recent years the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) community has discovered the enormous amount of information that can be extracted from a video camera. It can be used for collision avoidance, navigation, velocity estimation, ...
    • On Multi-UAS Sea Ice Monitoring 

      Olofsson, Jonatan (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2019:4, Doctoral thesis, 2019)
      Work in the polar regions of our planet is unavoidably linked with hazards such as drift ice. Increased presence, fueled by economic interests in the Arctic, has for several decades called for research in the field of ice ...
    • Optimal Control of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines 

      Lindeberg, Eivind (Master thesis, 2009)
      Floating Offshore Wind Power is an emerging and promising technology that is particularly interesting from a Norwegian point of view because of our long and windy coast. There are however still several remaining challenges ...
    • Optimal Path Planning for Unmanned Aerial Systems 

      Forsmo, Erik Johannes (Master thesis, 2012)
      This thesis is a contribution to the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) project at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, which is a project where contributions from master students and Phd students will result in an ...
    • Path Generation and Spline Approximation of a 3D Extended Dubins Path 

      Rognli, Vebjørn Johansen (Master thesis, 2021)
      En viktig egenskap som muliggjør autonom flygning av ubemannede fartøy (UAV) er automatisk baneplanlegging. Dette arbeidet tar for seg problemet med å generere en tredimensjonal bane, fra en sekvens av veipunkter, som tar ...
    • Path Planning and Guidance for Marine Surface Vessels 

      Dahl, Andreas Reason (Master thesis, 2013)
      Path planning and guidance for marine surface vesselsis the main topic of this thesis. The subject is of great relevance both for unmanned surface vehicles (USV) and for autopilot systems for manned vessels.A general ...
    • Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance for Marine Vessels Using the Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Method 

      Aronsen, Mathias Graatrud (Master thesis, 2019)
      Med autonomi som et av hovedfokusene innen utviklingen av den maritime industrien er dokking-fasen et aspekt av et fullt autonomt fartøy som ennå ikke er utforsket fullt ut. På grunn av manøvreres kompleksitet er det ...
    • Planar Docking Algorithms for Underactuated Marine Vehicles 

      Loberg, Jon-Erik (Master thesis, 2010)
      The use of autonomously underwater vehicles (AUVs) has a great potential in scientific mission involving underwater exploration. However a major drawback with todays AUV missions is the launch and recovery process which ...
    • Precision control of fixed-wing UAV and robust navigation in GNSSdenied environments 

      Gryte, Kristoffer (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2020:198, Doctoral thesis, 2020)
      Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been adopted to a wide range of applications, but fully autonomous flight is still utopian, especially for safety-critical applications. This thesis seeks to close this gap by mainly ...
    • Simulation, Control and Visualization of UAS 

      Dønnestad, Kristoffer (Master thesis, 2011)
      The Unmanned Vehicle Laboratory at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology has the overall goal of developing an unmanned aerial system (UAS). The unmanned aerial ...
    • SLAM-Driven Localization and Registration 

      Eklo, Vebjørn Fossheim (Master thesis, 2019)
      SLAM er et problem som omhandler prosessen med å opprette et kart over omgivelsene og samtidig lokalisere roboten/kjøretøyet i dette kartet. I robotikken og selvkjørende applikasjoner er dette en av de viktigste utfordringene ...
    • Spacecraft Attitude and Orbit Estimation using GPS and Inertial Measurements 

      Sundlisæter, Tale (Master thesis, 2012)
      This report studies the development of a Multiplicative Extended Kalman Filter for orbit and attitude estimation for the 10times10times20 cm CubeSat at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The filter ...
    • Stabilization of Floating Wind Turbines 

      Pedersen, Morten Dinhoff (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2017:132, Doctoral thesis, 2017)
      Wind turbines mounted on floating platforms are, under a specific set of circumstances, prone to a phenomena called control-induced resonance. The phenomena materializes as persistent oscillations in the platform’s surge ...
    • Surface Assisted Autopilot for Remotely Operated Vehicle 

      Storesund, Eirik (Master thesis, 2018)
      The following thesis was done in collaboration with Water Linked AS and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The task at hand was to demon- strate wireless control of an ROV done with Water Linked s Underwater ...
    • System Identification of Retardation Forces Using Frequency Domain Data 

      Smalø, Siv (Master thesis, 2007)
      The thesis includs how the I.R.Fx toolboxes are developed. Two system identification methods are used in this thesis, realization theory and frequency domain regression. The implementation aspects of the toolbox show that ...
    • System Identification of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 

      Ingebretsen, Thomas (Master thesis, 2012)
      The least squares method has been applied to estimate parameters inan aerodynamic model of a simulated aircraft, using data that can beexpected to available from sensors on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. Acombination of two ...
    • System Integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Thermal Camera 

      Roy, Elizabeth (Master thesis, 2016)
      This thesis describes the implementation of two systems, both relevant to the FLIR Tau 2 thermal camera, for use in a UAV payload with the aim of increasing the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the existing system. The ...
    • UAV net landing system for marine operations 

      Bjørsvik, Bård Rørlien (Master thesis, 2017)
      This thesis presents an automatic landing system designed for a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to land in a net placed on ta ship. The UAV used is a Skywalker X8, a cheap and durable airframe, with a Pixhawk as ...
    • Vehicle Collision Avoidance System 

      Sørbø, Eivind Hope (Master thesis, 2013)
      Thesis Description: The purpose of the thesis is to develop and simulate a collision avoidance system for a vehicle. Both static and dynamic obstacles should be considered.