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With an appropriate balance between mathematical theory and practical applications, academic and industrial researchers working in marine and control engineering aspects of manned and unmanned maritime vehicles will benefit from this comprehensive handbook. It is also suitable for final year undergraduates and postgraduates, lecturers, development officers, and practitioners in the areas of rigid-body modeling, hydrodynamics, simulation of marine craft, control and estimation theory, decision-support systems and sensor fusion. www.wiley.com/go/fossen_marine
Professor Thor Fossen, Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Thor Fossen was appointed Professor in Guidance, Navigation and Control at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU in 1993, and now teaches mathematical modeling of marine craft and control theory. He is one of the founders of the company Marine Cybernetics, where he was Vice President in R&D between 2002 and 2007.
Professor Fossen was a senior scientific advisor for ABB, Kongsberg and MARINTEK in 2002. He was involved in the design of nonlinear and passive state estimators for marine vessels, autopilots, trajectory tracking and maneuvering control, identification of ship dynamics from sea-trials and strapdown DGPS/INS navigation systems. He was granted a patent for weather optimal positioning control of marine vessels in 1998 and in 2002 this work won the Automatica Prize Paper Award. Professor Fossen has authored 250 scientific papers and three international textbooks, one of which being the John Wiley and Sons publication Guidance and Control of Ocean Vehicles in 1994. In 2008 his paper entitled ‘Nonlinear Observer for Vehicle Estimation’ won the Arch T. Colwell Merit Award at the SAE 2008 World Congress.