• Magnetic levitation system: Design, prototyping and testing of a digital PID-controller 

      Brønstad, Martin; Deila, Jørn Olav; Dyrskog, Jørgen; Langklopp, Markus (Bachelor thesis, 2022)
      Denne bacheloroppgaven handler om design, utvikling og bygging av en magnetisk levitasjonsplattform samt posisjonsregulering av en leviterende magnet ved hjelp av en digital PID-regulator. For å oppnå dette har en matematisk ...
    • Magnus the Chess Robot 

      Unger, Tobias Helstad (Master thesis, 2014)
      The goal of this thesis was to create a low-cost chess-playing robot to help progress the field of small-scale robotics and make it more available for personal use. To achieve this, methods for moving pieces on a chessboard ...
    • Main glucose hepatic fluxes in healthy subjects predicted from a phenomenological-based model 

      Builes-Montano, Carlos E.; Pérez, Laura Lema; Garcia-Tirado, Jose; Avarez, Hernan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background: The liver has a unique role in blood glucose regulation in postprandial, postabsorptive, and fasting states. In the context of diabetes technology, current maximal models of glucose homeostasis lack a proper ...
    • Mamba - A waterproof snake robot with tactile sensing 

      Liljebäck, Pål; Stavdahl, Øyvind; Pettersen, Kristin Ytterstad; Gravdahl, Jan Tommy (Chapter, 2014)
      This paper presents the snake robot Mamba, which is a modular, reconfigurable, and waterproof experimental platform developed to support the ongoing research on snake robot locomotion, including underwater locomotion. A ...
    • Managed Pressure Cementing 

      Meneses Pereira da Silva, Joao Francisco da Cunha (Master thesis, 2015)
      Managed Pressure Cementing (MPC) is a method to cement deep offshore wells in a safer, more controlled and more efficient way. It will end up being less costly because by applying managed pressure drilling (MPD) first the ...
    • Management of harmonic propagation in a marine vessel by use of optimization 

      Skjong, Espen; Ochoa-Gimenez, Miguel; Molinas Cabrera, Maria Marta; Johansen, Tor Arne (Chapter, 2015)
      Advances in power electronics drive systems for variable speed operation has enabled extensive use of such solutions in the propulsion and thruster systems of marine vessels. These solutions however introduce current and ...
    • Maneuvering Control of Planar Snake Robots Based on a Simplified Model 

      Rezapour, Ehsan; Hofmann, Andreas; Pettersen, Kristin Ytterstad (Chapter, 2014)
      This paper considers maneuvering control of planar snake robots, for which the equations of motion are described based on a simplified model. In particular, we aim to stabilize a desired straight line path for the position ...
    • Maneuvering Control of Planar Snake Robots Based on a Simplified Model 

      Rezapour, Ehsan; Hofmann, Andreas; Pettersen, Kristin Ytterstad (Journal article, 2014)
      This paper considers maneuvering control of planar snake robots, for which the equations of motion are described based on a simplified model. In particular, we aim to stabilize a desired straight line path for the position ...
    • Maneuvering Control of Planar Snake Robots Using Virtual Holonomic Constraints 

      Mohammadi, Alireza; Rezapour, Ehsan; Maggiore, Manfredi; Pettersen, Kristin Ytterstad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      This paper investigates the problem of maneuvering control for planar snake robots. The control objective is to make the center of mass of the snake robot converge to a desired path and traverse the path with a desired ...
    • Maneuvering with safety guarantees using control barrier functions 

      Marley, Mathias; Skjetne, Roger; Basso, Erlend Andreas; Teel, Andrew R. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Control barrier functions (CBFs) ensure safety of controlled dynamical systems, by restricting the control inputs to render desired sets forward invariant. In this paper we propose a dynamic guidance scheme for autonomous ...
    • Manhole Detection and Traversal for Exploration of Ballast Water Tanks using Micro Aerial Vehicles 

      Dharmadhikari, Mihir; de Petris, Paolo; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Kulkarni, Mihir; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      This paper presents a method for the autonomous exploration of multiple compartments of a Ballast Water Tank inside a vessel using Micro Aerial Vehicles. Navigation across the compartments of ballast tanks often requires ...
    • Manually or Autonomously Operated Drones: Impact on Sensor Data towards Machine Learning 

      Spahic, Rialda; Lundteigen, Mary Ann (Chapter, 2022)
      The growing need for autonomous systems in offshore industries has contributed to the increased use of machine learning methods. These systems promise to improve safety in operations. However, the methods as enablers of ...
    • Mapping a maze with a camera using a Raspberry Pi 

      Bjørnsen, Kristian (Master thesis, 2017)
      This master thesis features the implementation of a complete image processing, mapping and communication system on a Raspberry Pi for the characterization and mapping of a maze from the air. The system was implemented in ...
    • Mapping and Navigation for collaborating mobile Robots. 

      Thon, Eirik (Master thesis, 2016)
      Two modules of a software system for exploration and mapping using mobile robots have been created. The first module has the task of generating a map from the measurements of the robot, and the second module uses the map ...
    • Marine Vessel and Power Plant System Simulator 

      Bø, Torstein Ingebrigtsen; Dahl, Andreas Reason; Johansen, Tor Arne; Mathiesen, Eirik; Rejani Miyazaki, Michel; Pedersen, Eilif; Skjetne, Roger; Sørensen, Asgeir Johan; Thorat, Laxminarayan; Yum, Kevin K. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Modern marine electric propulsion vessels have many systems. These interactions and integration aspects are essential when studying a system and subsystem behavior. This is especially important when considering fault ...
    • Maritime multi-target tracking with radar and asynchronous transponder measurements 

      Hem, Audun Gullikstad (Master thesis, 2021)
      Denne avhandlingen presenterer en ny metode for å bruke en type målinger med unike IDer, sendt ut av omkringliggense fartøy, i en radar-basert målfølgingsalgoritme. Det tiltenkte bruksområdet er i maritim målfølging, og ...
    • Maritime object detection using infrared cameras 

      Hølland, Eskil Hatling (Master thesis, 2019)
      Autonom transport blir stadig mer tilgjengelig, både landbasert, luftbasert og til havs. Urbane vannveier er på den andre siden underutnyttet i dagens byer. Den vanlige måten å krysse en kanal er enten via bro eller en ...
    • Maritime Target Tracking with Varying Sensor Performance 

      Wilthil, Erik F. (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2019:259, Doctoral thesis, 2019)
      Several research and industrial projects have been started in recent years to drive the development of autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs). This thesis is one of the contributions to this emerging field, and the topic is ...
    • Maritime Tracking with Georeferenced Multi-Camera Fusion 

      Helgesen, Øystein Kaarstad; Stahl, Annette; Brekke, Edmund Førland (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Cameras form an essential part of any autonomous surface vehicle’s sensor package, both for COLREGs compliance to detect light signals and for identifying and tracking other vessels. Due to limited fields of view compared ...
    • Marsupial Walking-and-Flying Robotic Deployment for Collaborative Exploration of Unknown Environments 

      De Petris, Paolo; Khattak, Shehryar; Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Waibel, Gabriel; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Montenegro, Markus; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos; Hutter, Marco (Chapter, 2022)
      This work contributes a marsupial robotic system-of-systems involving a legged and an aerial robot capable of collaborative mapping and exploration path planning that exploits the heterogeneous properties of the two systems ...