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List of recent highlights
April 2019:
- Appointed main supervisor for Aleksander Skrede, PhD candidate 2019-23, biomechanics and robotics
- Presented the paper On the Development of Laboratory Projects in Modern Engineering Education at EDUCON '19, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. [prezi]
- Completed PhD evaluation and defence of Claudio Giovanni Mottera, SDU, Odense, Denmark
- Finalized all orders of lab equipment for the Cyber-Physical Systems Lab worth 2.3 MNOK
March 2019:
- Attended Autoferry meeting in Trondheim and start of SFI application for Autonomous Ships
February 2019:
- The paper On the Development of Laboratory Projects in Modern Engineering Education accepted for publication and presentation at EDUCON '19, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Opening of the Biomechanics Lab at Ålesund Hospital, of which the CPS Lab is a core partner
January 2019:
- Appointed co-supervisor for Ahmad Amine Loutfi, PhD candidate in financial technology, TEFT-Lab, NTNU
December 2018:
- Contracts signed by two new ERCIM postdocs awarded to me as scientific coordinator and the CPS Lab:
- Ramesh Chandra, PhD graduate from Banasthali Vidhyapith University, India
- Hamidreza Shahbazi, PhD graduate from Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Iran
- Master thesis submitted and co-authored paper presented at EECS 2018 by my student Sindre Fossen: Sindre Fossen, Robin T. Bye, and Ottar L. Osen. Visualization and Collision Risk Assessment of Real Ships in a Mixed Reality Environment using Live Automatic Identification System (AIS) Data. In Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS '18), Bern, Switzerland. To appear.
- Paper published online: Peter D. Neilson, Megan D. Neilson, and Robin T. Bye. A Riemannian Geometry Theory of Three-Dimensional Binocular Visual Perception. Vision (MDPI), December 2019 (open access). Special issue: The Perspective of Visual Space.
- Attended Robotex and supervised three student teams in sumo robot competition
November 2018:
- Paper accepted for publication: Peter D. Neilson, Megan D. Neilson, and Robin T. Bye. A Riemannian Geometry Theory of Three-Dimensional Binocular Visual Perception. Vision (MDPI), December 2019 (open access). Special issue: The Perspective of Visual Space.
- Awarded two ERCIM postdocs in the CPS Lab as a scientific coordinator
- Strategic PhD scholarship awarded the CPS Lab for MedTech/Biomedical Engineering
October 2018:
- Awarded 4-year scholarship (Kompetanseløft innen utdanning og forskning ved IE) from IE faculty securing 50% research time with Thor I. Fossen as mentor
- Completed two committee evaluation reports on two vocational study programmes for NOKUT
September 2018:
- new website for CPS Lab released to the public
- new integrated PhD candidate Elias Hasle began working for the CPS Lab on Autonomous Ships
- new ERCIM postdoc Varatharajan Nainamalai (Rajan) began working for the CPS Lab on MedTech/Biomedical Engineering
August 2018:
- kick-off VRI project on multi-camera 3D tracking of flying objects
July 2018:
- new postdoc Varatharajan Nainamalai funded by ERCIM appointed to the CPS Lab
- evaluation committee finished evaluation of integrated PhD application
June 2018:
- CPS Lab awarded strategic PhD position on Autonomous Ships
- call for integrated PhD on Autonomous Ships released
- new ERCIM postdoc Rachid Oucheikh began work for the CPS Lab on Autonomous Ships
May 2018:
- sent application to IE faculty for strategic PhD position on Autonomous Ships in the CPS Lab
- attended and presented Digital Twins for Computer Haptic-Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery (CHAOS) at the Ålesund Hospital Orthopaedic Conference at Atlanterhavsparken
- strengthened cooperation with Ålesund Hospital regarding Biomechanics Lab and orthopaedic surgery training simulator project (CHAOS)
April 2018:
- new PhD candidate Anete Vagale began working for the CPS Lab on Autonomous Ships
March 2018:
- SoftICE Lab changed name to Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory (CPS Lab)
- began work on new website for CPS Lab
February 2018:
- Appointed head, Software and Intelligent Control Engineering Laboratory (SoftICE Lab), NTNU
- Appointed board member, local Ålesund committee (uLMU), Learning Environment Committee (LMU), NTNU
- Appointed head, CHAOS, internal research project application to Digital Transformation, (budget: 5 PhD positions), NTNU. Application submitted 15 February.
- Appointed WP member, Autoferry, internal research project application to Digital Transformation, (budget: 6 PhD positions), NTNU. Application submitted 15 February.
- Completed first round of abstract reviews, SIMS 2018.
January 2018:
- As project head, submitted application for 1-2 strategic PhD positions on Autonomous Ships, internal call, NTNU
- Presented a talk on Nature-inspired AI at the annual January seminar at Ålesund high school. This years theme: Digitalization
- Public call for candidates to a PhD position on Autonomous Ships released, for which I will be a supervisor.
December 2017:
- Completed first report draft of the deep evaluation of the master programme in simulation and visualization, NTNU
November 2017:
- Awarded 1 postdoc from the ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Fellowship Programme, 1-year position on Autonomous Ships, filled by Dr. Rachid Oucheikh, starting May 2018.
- Reviewed a professorship candidate application for the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU
September 2017:
- Appointed technical programme committee co-chair, 59th International Conference of Scandinavian Simulation Society, SIMS 2018, Oslo, Norway
August 2017:
- submitted both papers selected for special publication in the Springer series Communications and Computer Information Science (CCIS)
June 2017:
- elected by scientific staff as a member of the extended leader group of my department for a 4-year period
- appointed deputy board member of the Committee for Research and Research Education for a 4-year period
- PhD student under my supervision, Brice Assimizele, defended his thesis on models and algorithms for optimal dynamic allocation of patrol tugs to oil tankers along the northern Norwegian coast, as a continuation of the DRAMA project that I headed
- appointed member of workgroup for deep evaluation of the master programme in simulation and visualization
- completed the website AI for product design documenting two research projects on computer-automated design of maritime equipiment such as cranes and winches
- bachelor students under my supervision submitted thesis (awarded grade A) on typing on virtual keyboards using EEG and EMG suitable for paralyzed patients
- master student under my supervision submitted thesis on autonomous drone swarms (grade to be decided)
April 2017:
- ran as candidate in election to the faculty board (not elected)
May 2017:
- both papers on educational research presented at CSEDU 2017 selected for extended publication (>30%) in the Springer series Communications and Computer Information Science (CCIS)
- attended ECMS 2017 in Budapest and presented one of our two papers on intelligent virtual prototyping
March 2017:
- hosted a seminar and workshop on modern education, including topics such as "automagical" grading and feedback, adaptive learning tool for mathematics, and active learning
- attended CSEDU 2017 in Porto and presented one of two papers on educational research (modern teaching and flipped classroom)
- attended the opening of the Telenor-NTNU AI-Lab, in which the SoftICE lab participates
February 2017:
- promoted to IEEE Senior Member
- three of our bachelor students of automation engineering won a prestigious award for best thesis, which informed a paper on dynamic positioning and aqua farm inspection using USVs that I coauthored and presented at Techno-Ocean 2016 last autumn
- strategic PhD position, in which I will likely be involved with supervision on automation and autonomous ships, awarded our department