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NTNU AMOS annual report for 2019 is out. You can read it here.

Erlend Andreas Basso at NTNU in Trondheim (Cybernetics and Robotics) won the NFEA's award for best master's thesis 2019, with the thesis: «Dynamic Task Priority Control of Articulated Intervention AUVs Using Control Lyapunov and Control Barrier Function based Quadratic Programs »

The startup’s autonomous system senses and melts frozen buildup

In 2013 Ph.D. candidate Kim L. Sorensen and his advisor, IEEE Senior Member Tor Arne Johansen, talked with U.S. Coast Guard representatives about a relatively new challenge for the military: the buildup of ice on drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles. UAVs weren’t outfitted with protection to eliminate ice buildup.

A new spin off from the AMOS research community has just been lunched. The new company seeks to develop effective and climate neutral mini-ferries that can be a cheap and climate friendly alternative to bridges and traditional ferries in cities.

Researchers have worked on the idea of snake robots for more than 30 years, but the greatest breakthrough so far was done by key scientist at NTNU AMOS Professor Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen and her colleagues. In recognition of this work, Pettersen has been awarded the Bode Lecture Prize.

AMOS days 2019 gathered 115 scientists and researchers to a conference where the latest development within the AMOS research projects were presented. Professor Asgeir Sørensen opened the day by welcoming new PhD candidates and researchers and comparing what we do at AMOS with Elite sports, saying that at AMOS “you will find the best of the best within our fields”.

The Autonomy Cluster in Trondheim is one of Innovation Norway’s new cluster projects. NTNU Amos has been one of the key driving forces behind the cluster, and the Director of Amos, Professor Asgeir Sørensen, thinks the cluster could open a whole new chapter in ocean-based autonomy research.

PhD candidate at AMOS, Richard Hann, has received an outstanding oral presentation award from the SAE for their International Icing conference 2019.

Richard Hann at the SEA icing conference

Prime Minister Erna Solberg has confirmed that the Norwegian government has allocated 55 million NOK in the 2020 government budget to the Ocean Space Centre project.   

Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Minister of Research and Higher Education Iselin Nybø, Sintef Director Alexandra Bech Gjørv and Acting Rector at NTNU Anne Borg. Photo: Anne Katharine Dahl/NTNU.

Icing of drones is a severe hazard that significantly limits the usage of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles. Researchers from NTNU AMOS recently conducted experiments in an icing wind tunnel to learn more about icing in order to test an icing protection system.

Professor Asgeir Sørensen has received the Norwegian Research Council’s innovation prize for 2019. The price is granted to a person or organization that through exceptional use of research result have laid the foundation for research based innovation.

Photo: Odd Richard Valmot, TU

From 2019, the Department of Marine Technology at NTNU will offer its students a new researcher’s program that prepares the participant for PhD studies.

Photo: Geir Mogen

Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen, professor at the Department of Technical Cybernetics and Key Researcher at NTNU AMOS, has given a lecture on snake robots, at the science festival "The Big Challenge".

NTNU launches our deepest laboratory yet, almost 370 meters below the surface of the Trondheim fjord.

Prof. Martin Ludvigsen live from Gunnerus and the test-site, on stage is Anders Opedal and Kjetil Skaugset from Equinor, with rector of NTNU, Gunnar Bovim and director of AMOS, Asgeir Sørensen.

Ground breaking autonomous systems technology, from space to the ocean floor, was the topic as NTNU AMOS’ spring seminar gathered the researchers at AMOS at Ørlandet Kysthotell this year.  

Director of NTNU AMOS, Asgeir Sørensen, opened the spring seminar.

NTNU AMOS enters into a collaboration agreement with Arctic Research Centre, Institute for Bioscience - Aarhus University.

Photo: Asgeir J. Sørensen