Thor I. Fossen is a professor of Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) at the NTNU Department of Engineering Cybernetics. He is a key scientist at the Norwegian Centre for Embodied AI (NCEI) and holds a PhD in Engineering Cybernetics as well as an MSc in Marine Technology from NTNU. He has also pursued postgraduate studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington, Seattle. Fossen is a Fellow of AAIA, IEEE, and IFAC, and is internationally recognized for his work in GNC systems of marine craft, aircraft, and drones.

For more information, please see his home page: https://www.fossen.biz

Textbook:

• Fossen, T. I. (2021). Handbook of Marine Craft Hydrodynamics and Motion Control, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons. Ltd., Chichester, UK.

Selected publications:

• Coates, E. M. and T. I. Fossen (2026). A Spherical Amplitude-Phase Formulation for 3-D Adaptive Line-of-Sight (ALOS) Guidance with USGES Stability Guarantees. Automatica (To Appear).
• Fossen, T. I. (2025). Maneuvering Coefficient Estimation from Frequency-Dependent Added Mass and Damping: A Power-Based Approach. Ocean Engineering 341 (Part 1), 122494.
• Fossen, T. I. and A. P. Aguiar (2024). A Uniform Semiglobal Exponential Stable Adaptive Line-of-Sight (ALOS) Guidance Law for 3-D Path Following. Automatica 163, 111556.
• Fossen, T. I. (2023). Feedback Error-state Kalman Filter with Time-delay Compensation for Hydroacoustic-aided Inertial Navigation of Underwater Vehicles. Control Engineering Practice 138, 105603.
• Solnør, P., Ø. Volden, K. Gryte, S. Petrovic and T. I. Fossen (2022). Hijacking of Unmanned Surface Vehicles: A Demonstration of Attacks and Countermeasures in the Field. Journal of Field Robotics 39(5), 631-649.

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