Stefan Larsen

PhD student

Short bio

Stefan Larsen graduated with the Master of Science in Engineering in Cybernetics and Robotics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, in 2022, supervised by Prof. T. A. Johansen and Dr. H. H. Helgesen.

During the summer of 2021, Stefan worked as a research assistant at NTNU on the topic of robust automatic docking of small unmanned surface vessels. The docking method was implemented with an dynamic positioning algorithm using only GPS data, Kalman filter for observing environmental forces, and fault-tolerance system for robust docking. Both the specialization project and master’s thesis at NTNU are continuations of this work. The method was experimentally tested on a physical ferry in Trondheim, and later published in the Journal of Marine Science and Technology.

During the last 8 months of his master’s degree, Stefan also worked part-time as a Software Developer at Maritimes Robotic AS, where he worked on dynamic positioning control and state observers for autonomous marine vessels, performing tests in simulator and field.

Research Interests

His research interests are autonomous vehicles (modeling, perception, decision and control of USVs, UAVs and AUVs), computer vision and neural networks.