• Stability Analysis of EKF - based Attitude Determination and Control 

      Tønne, Karianne Knutsen (Master thesis, 2007)
      This thesis is a part of the SSETI (Student Space Exploration Technology Initiative) project, where students from several universities around Europe work together with the European Space Agency (ESA) with designing, building, ...
    • Komplett målesystem for vannkvalitet i merd 

      Fossum, John André (Master thesis, 2007)
      Bidra med å utvikle et produkt for oppdrettsnæringen som skal være med å optimalisere, videreutvikle og dokumentere nødvendige sammenhenger innenfor oppdrett av fisk i oppdrettsanlegg.
    • Control Relevant Modeling and Nonlinear State Estimation Applied to SOFC-GT Power Systems 

      Kandepu, Rambabu (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2007:172, Doctoral thesis, 2007)
      With today’s increasing concern about global warming and climate change and further increase in energy demand, there is an incentive to investigate power processes that operate efficiently, and thus reducing the amount of ...
    • Modeling Run-Time Distributions in Passively Replicated Fault-Tolerant Systems 

      Tjora, Åsmund (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2007:259, Doctoral thesis, 2007)
      Many real-time applications will have strict reliability requirements in addition to the timing requirements. To fulfill these reliability requirements, it may be necessary to use a fault-tolerance strategy. An active ...
    • Verification and extension of a linear model of a rotary converter 

      Aschenbrenner, Bernhard (Master thesis, 2007)
      In this work, a verification and extension of a linear rotary converter model is done in Matlab®/Simulink. The existing model was developed by Thomas Høyvik Garten in his master thesis “Linear Model of Rotary Converter in ...
    • CyberBike 

      Sølvberg, Audun (Master thesis, 2007)
      The idea about the CyberBike came to Jens G. Balchen - the founder of the Department of Engineering Cybernetics (ITK) at NTNU - in the 1980's. He wanted to make an unmanned autonomus bicycle, i.e. a bike that could run by ...
    • Optimal Reservoir control using nonlinear MPC and ECLIPSE 

      Meum, Patrick (Master thesis, 2007)
      Recent years advances within well deployment and instrumentation technology offers huge potentials for increased oil recovery from reservoir production. Wells can now be equipped with controllable valves at reservoir depth, ...
    • Master Kontrollsekvens: Ormen Lange 

      Vik, Frode Haugland (Master thesis, 2007)
      Gjennom denne oppgaven vil leseren gjøres kjent med Ormen Lange landanlegg for produksjon av gass. I oppgaven presenteres bakgrunnsinformasjon for alle store hovedsystemer som inngår i forbindelse med oppstart av ...
    • Ground Station and Hardware Peripherals for Fixed-wing UAV: CyberSwan 

      Eriksen, Mikael Kristian (Master thesis, 2007)
      In this master's thesis, a ground station (GS) for the fixed-wing UAV: CyberSwan (CS), has been developed. The CS was designed for surveillance purposes, and two other master's theses deals with the work of making it ...
    • Active Pendulation Damping of Payload on Offshore Vessels 

      Dahl, Tom Christian (Master thesis, 2007)
      Ship-mounted boom cranes play an important role in the offshore cargo transport process. In recent years, there has been significant need to increase stability of the payload during the cargo transport process for both ...
    • Design of a New Joint Mechanism and a Simulator for a Climbing Robot 

      Wiig, Martin (Master thesis, 2007)
      This report covers the development of a new joint mechanism and a robotic simulator. These are intended to be used in the further development of a climbing robot that has been previously worked on. The climbing robot is ...
    • Averaging Level Control of a Separator using Gain Scheduling 

      Halvorsrød, Sverre Oliver (Master thesis, 2007)
      In mature production wells slugging is, or can be, a major challenge when it comes totuning of the first separator control loops. The objectives of the tuning are to minimizethe variation of the outflow, whilst at the same ...
    • Comparison of Adaptive Controllers for a Servomechanism 

      Eielsen, Arnfinn Aas (Master thesis, 2007)
      Electric motors with metal graphite brushes experience a change in contact resistance depending on current load. This varying resistance leads to varying gain in the motor, since the proportion of power dissipated due to ...
    • Identification and Order Reduction of Radiation Force Models of Marine Structures 

      Unneland, Kari (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2007:188, Doctoral thesis, 2007)
    • Lineær MPC og Ulineær MPC realisert i Java/APIS 

      Tjøstheim, Tore (Master thesis, 2007)
      Modellbasert regulering er en avansert regulerings metode. Den håndterer multivariable reguleringsproblemer på en naturlig måte, og tar hensyn til begrensninger i pådrag og regulerte variable. Det er utviklet en algoritme ...
    • Integrated Model Based Control of Topside Process and Production Wells 

      Stange, Martin Berger (Master thesis, 2007)
      In offshore production systems for oil and gas, the wells are usually controlled manually, while the topside process is controlled using a decentralized control system. It is clear that this control structure may not be ...
    • Advanced leak detection in oil and gas pipelines using a nonlinear observer and OLGA models 

      Hauge, Espen (Master thesis, 2007)
      An adaptive Luenberger-type observer with the purpose of locating and quantifying leakages is presented. The observer only needs measurements of velocity and temperature at the inlet and pressure at the outlet to function. ...
    • 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 ...
    • 3D AUV Collision Avoidance 

      Engelhardtsen, Øystein (Master thesis, 2007)
      An underlying requirement for any Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) is to navigate through unknown or partly unknown environments while performing certain user specified tasks. The loss of an AUV due to collision is ...
    • Adaptive Observer for Bottomhole Pressure During Drilling 

      Stamnes, Øyvind Nistad (Master thesis, 2007)
      To satisfy the increasing petroleum consumption on a world wide basis there is a need to find new resources. As mature fields are drained, reservoir pressure falls, which again leads to tight pressure margins. To reduce ...