Although human beings don’t have wings, it is often very useful to fly. Or at least to use the air to transport objects. Sometimes these objects have to be delivered on normally unreachable places under difficult conditions, ...

After two decades of dedicated research and development, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are today becoming accepted by an increasing number of users in both military and civilian institutions. Despite recent progress, ...

The objective of this thesis is to investigate solutions for a robust autonomous navigation system for a fixed-wing UAV. Robustness requires the ability to detect faults in the system and to compensate for the consequent ...

This thesis presents topics related to collision avoidance (COLAV) and motion control for autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs). The thesis contains a collection of nine publications, of which six are peer-reviewed conference ...

This thesis considers trajectory planning and collision avoidance for autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) operating in complex domains in the presence of other vessels. In particular, the task of maneuvering in compliance ...

High labour costs, due to the existing technology that still involves a high degree of manually based processing, incur overall high production costs in the fish processing industry. Therefore, a higher degree of automation ...

The standard way of solving a mathematical program, is to feed the program into some numerical solver, which usually is custom-made for a class of problems. When several optimization problems, which only differ by the value ...

This dissertation treats optimization and control with emphasis on oil and gas applications, and consists of an introduction followed by five main contributions. In the first contribution, we focus on allocating a limited ...

This thesis describes several contributions to some classical and new problems in robotics that appear in motion and trajectory planning, motion and trajectory representation, and motion control where we suggest new ...