Ottar Osen
Background and activities
Current position: Head of the study program Automation in Ålesund.
Interests: Industrial control systems, big data, intelligent systemes, micro controllers, technical safety (SIL) and pedagogics (problem based and project based learning).
Teaching: Industrial control systems, instrumentation, cybernetics, intelligent systems (artificial intelligence), simulations and micro controllers. Mentoring B.Sc. and M.Sc. theses. 10 years.
Experience: Automation for vessels and offshore installations. Control systems for vessels, production process and subsea. Software development (databases and CNC machines). Participated in large offshore projects such as Snorre A, Troll C, Petrojarl Foinaven and Heidrun. experience as project manager and co-ordinator for a H2020 application. 13 years.
Courses
- AIS2105 - Mechatronics and Robotics
- IPEV6003 - Digital technology I
- AIS2104 - Industrial Control Systems with Project
- IELEA2920 - Bachelor Thesis Automation
- AIS2221 - Industrial Project
- AIS2132 - Robotics
- AIS2220 - Credits Through Practice
- IE600019 - Digital Technology I
- AIS2900 - Bachelor thesis in engineering
- IELEA2303 - Industrial control systems with project
- AIS2103 - IoT and Network Programming
- IE600219 - Digital Technology II
- AIS2131 - Mechatronics
- AIS2101 - Intelligent Systems
- IPEV6004 - Digital technology II
Scientific, academic and artistic work
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2021
- (2021) Assessing autonomous ship navigation using bridge simulators enhanced by cycle-consistent adversarial networks. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part O, Journal of risk and reliability.
- (2021) Genset scheduling in a redundant electric power system for an offshore vessel using mixed integer linear programming. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. vol. 143 (6).
- (2021) Path planning and collision avoidance for autonomous surface vehicles II: a comparative study of algorithms. Journal of Marine Science and Technology.
- (2021) Path planning and collision avoidance for autonomous surface vehicles I: a review. Journal of Marine Science and Technology.
- (2021) A sensitivity quantification approach to significance analysis of thrusters in dynamic positioning operations. Ocean Engineering. vol. 223.
2020
- (2020) Evaluation of Path Planning Algorithms of Autonomous Surface Vehicles Based on Safety and Collision Risk Assessment. MTS/IEEE Global OCEANS conference 2020 . IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society; 2020-10-05 - 2020-10-30.
2019
- (2019) On the development of laboratory projects in modern engineering education. IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON. vol. April-2019.
- (2019) On the Use of Hardware-in-the-Loop for Teaching Automation Engineering. IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON.
2018
- (2018) Visualization and Collision Risk Assessment of Real Ships in a Mixed-Reality Environment using Live Automatic Identification System (AIS) Data. Proceedings of the European Conference on Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
- (2018) Observations and Reflections on Teaching Electrical and Computer Engineering Courses. Computers Supported Education : 9th International Conference, CSEDU 2017, Porto, Portugal, April 21-23, 2017, Revised Selected Papers.
- (2018) Data-Driven Maritime Processes Management Using Executable Models. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). vol. 10672.
2017
- (2017) An intelligent winch prototyping tool. Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS '17).
- (2017) A comparison between optimization algorithms applied to offshore crane design using an online crane prototyping tool. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. vol. 533.
- (2017) EVOLUTIONARY WINCH DESIGN USING AN ONLINE WINCH PROTOTYPING TOOL. Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS '17).
- (2017) Interval type-2 fuzzy logic systems for evaluating students? academic performance. Communications in Computer and Information Science. vol. 739.
- (2017) Measuring port berth utilisation with Automatic Identification System (AIS) data. Marener 2017 - International conference on maritime energy management . World Maritime University; Malmö. 2017-01-24 - 2017-01-25.
- (2017) A UAV SAR Prototype for Marine and Arctic Application. ASME 2017 36th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering - Volume 7B: Ocean Engineering.
- (2017) Reflections on Teaching Electrical and Computer Engineering Courses at the Bachelor Level. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (Volume 2).
- (2017) A Novel Low Cost ROV for Aquaculture Application. OCEANS MTS/IEEE 2017 ; 2017-09-18 - 2017-09-21.
- (2017) A Novel Low Cost ROV for Aquaculture Application. OCEANS 2017 MTS/IEEE Anchorage.
- (2017) Data dimension reduction for visual analytics: A case study of oil-in-water detection. OCEANS 2017 MTS/IEEE Anchorage.
- (2017) Organizing data from industrial internet of things for maritime operations. IEEE OCEANS 2017 - Aberdeen.
- (2017) Measuring Container Port Complementarity and Substitutability with Automatic Identification System (AIS) Data. 12th International Conference on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation, TRANSNAV . Gdynia Maritime University; Gdynia. 2017-06-21 - 2017-06-23.
- (2017) Measuring Container Port Complementarity and Substitutability with Automatic Identification System (AIS) Data – Studying the Inter-port Relationships in the Oslo Fjord Multi-port Gateway Region. TransNav, International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation. vol. 11 (2).
2016
- (2016) A Software Framework For Intelligent Computer-Automated Product Design. 30th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Regensburg Germany, May 31st – June 3rd, 2016.
- (2016) Side-to-side 3D coverage path planning approach for agricultural robots to minimize skip/overlap areas between swaths. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. vol. 76.
- (2016) Grey wolf optimizer (GWO) for automated offshore Crane design. Proc. of IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence.
- (2016) Intelligent computer-automated crane design using an online crane prototyping tool. 30th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Regensburg Germany, May 31st – June 3rd, 2016.
- (2016) An Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic System for Assessment of Students' Answer Scripts under High Levels of Uncertainty. CSEDU 2016 : Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2.
- (2016) A Game-based Learning Framework for Controlling Brain-Actuated Wheelchairs. 30th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Regensburg Germany, May 31st – June 3rd, 2016.
- (2016) A Bio-inspired Swimming Robot for Marine Aquaculture Applications: from Concept-design to Simulation. OCEANS 2016 Shanghai - MTS/IEEE.
- (2016) Analysis and Modeling of Sensor Data for Ship Motion Predicition. OCEANS 2016 Shanghai - MTS/IEEE.
- (2016) Case study of ship oil detection and combat scenario applying AIS data. Automatic Identification System (AIS) and maritime transport ; HSN. 2016-11-21.
- (2016) Optimizing Electric energy Production on-Board offshore vessels : Vessel Power consumption profile and Production strategies using Genetic algorithms. OCEANS 2016 Shanghai - MTS/IEEE.
- (2016) A Low Cost USV for Aqua Farm Inspection. Proceedings of IEEE Techno-Ocean 2016.
- (2016) On Usage Of EEG Brain Control For Rehabilitation Of Stroke Patients. 30th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Regensburg Germany, May 31st – June 3rd, 2016.
2015
- (2015) A computer-automated design tool for intelligent virtual prototyping of offshore cranes. 29th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, {ECMS} 2015, Albena (Varna), Bulgaria, May 26-29, 2015. Proceedings.
- (2015) Scalable And User-Friendly Simulation. 29th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, {ECMS} 2015, Albena (Varna), Bulgaria, May 26-29, 2015. Proceedings.
- (2015) Big Data and Industrial Internet of Things for the Maritime Industry in Northwestern Norway. Proceedings of IEEE TENCON 2015.
2014
- (2014) Recycling a discarded robotic arm for automation engineering education. Proceedings 28th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation ECMS 2014, May 27th - May 30th, 2014, Brescia, Italy.
2013
- (2013) An agent-based model to simulate pathogen transmission between aquaculture sites in the Romsdalsfjord. Proceedings 27th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation ECMS 2013, May 27th - May 30th, 2013, Ålesund, Norway.
2012
- (2012) Exploring artificial vision for use in demanding ship operations. Shaping reality through simulation : Proceedings 26th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation ECMS 2012 : May 29th - June 1st, 2012, Koblenz, Germany.
2010
- (2010) Application of low-cost commercial off-the-shelf (cots) products in the development of human-robot interactions. Proceedings : 24th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation : 1st-4th June 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2009
- (2009) Teaching embedded control using concurrent Java. ECMS 2009 : Proceedings 23rd European Conference on Modelling and Simulation ECMS 2009.