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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Norway
2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
47
Citations
7905
World Ranking
3259
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Asgeir J. Sørensen is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway, specializing in the field of engineering. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to maritime navigation and safety, underwater vehicles and communication systems, adaptive control of nonlinear systems, spacecraft design and technology, risk and safety analysis, fault detection and control systems, and formal methods in verification.

The scientist has contributed to the subfields of ocean engineering, aerospace engineering, control and systems engineering, statistics, probability and uncertainty, and software, with a significant number of publications in these areas. Their work in ocean engineering is particularly notable, encompassing 18 publications, followed by aerospace engineering with 15, and control and systems engineering with 14.

Frequent publication venues for Sørensen include Remote Sensing, IFAC-PapersOnLine, Ocean Engineering, Marine Technology Society Journal, and Scientific Reports. Remote Sensing and IFAC-PapersOnLine each feature three of their works, while Ocean Engineering and Marine Technology Society Journal each contain two publications.

Their recent papers cover a range of topics and publication years as follows:

  • Development and testing of a risk-based control system for autonomous ships, 2023, Reliability Engineering & System Safety
  • HYPSO-1 CubeSat: First Images and In-Orbit Characterization, 2023, Remote Sensing
  • Automatic simulation-based testing of autonomous ships using Gaussian processes and temporal logic, 2022, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O Journal of Risk and Reliability
  • Mapping the Historical Shipwreck Figaro in the High Arctic Using Underwater Sensor-Carrying Robots, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • A Bayesian Approach to Supervisory Risk Control of AUVs Applied to Under-Ice Operations, 2020, Marine Technology Society Journal

Sørensen has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including Ingrid Bouwer Utne, Tor Arne Johansen, Dennis D. Langer, Jens Einar Bremnes, and Astrid H. Brodtkorb, each with multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • A survey of dynamic positioning control systems

    Asgeir J. Sørensen

  • Integral Line-of-Sight Guidance and Control of Underactuated Marine Vehicles: Theory, Simulations, and Experiments

    Walter Caharija;Kristin Y. Pettersen;Marco Bibuli;Pedro Calado

  • Design of a dynamic positioning system using model-based control

    Asgeir J. Sørensen;Svein I. Sagatun;Thor I. Fossen

  • DESIGN OF A DYNAMIC POSITIONING SYSTEM USING MODEL-BASED CONTROL

    Asgeir J. Sørensen;Svein I. Sagatun;Thor I. Fossen

  • Design of a dynamic positioning system using model-based control

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  • Identification of dynamically positioned ships

    Thor I. Fossen;Svein I. Sagatun;Asgeir J. Sørensen

  • Design of hybrid controller for dynamic positioning from calm to extreme sea conditions

    Trong Dong Nguyen;Asgeir J. Sørensen;Ser Tong Quek

  • Identification of Dynamically Positioned Ships

    Thor I. Fossen;Svein I. Sagatun;Asgeir J. Sørensen

  • Towards supervisory risk control of autonomous ships

    Ingrid Bouwer Utne;Børge Rokseth;Asgeir J. Sørensen;Jan Erik Vinnem

  • Model-Based Output Feedback Control of Slender-Body Underactuated AUVs: Theory and Experiments

    J.E. Refsnes;A.J. Sorensen;K.Y. Pettersen

  • An overview of the marine systems simulator (MSS) : a Simulink toolbox for marine control systems

    Tristan Perez;Øyvind N. Smogeli;Thor I. Fossen;Asgeir J. Sørensen

  • A Voronoi-diagram-based dynamic path-planning system for underactuated marine vessels☆

    Mauro Candeloro;Anastasios M. Lekkas;Asgeir Johan Sørensen

  • Structural issues in the design and operation of marine control systems

    Asgeir J. Sørensen

  • Towards integrated autonomous underwater operations for ocean mapping and monitoring

    Martin Ludvigsen;Asgeir J. Sørensen

  • Identification of dynamically positioned ships

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  • Use of an Autonomous Surface Vehicle reveals small-scale diel vertical migrations of zooplankton and susceptibility to light pollution under low solar irradiance

    Martin Ludvigsen;Martin Ludvigsen;Jørgen Berge;Jørgen Berge;Maxime Geoffroy;Jonathan H. Cohen

  • Ocean Wave Spectral Estimation Using Vessel Wave Frequency Motions

    R. Pascoal;C. Guedes Soares;A. J. Sørensen

  • Torque and power control of electrically driven marine propellers

    Asgeir J. Sørensen;Øyvind N. Smogeli

  • The use of underwater hyperspectral imaging deployed on remotely operated vehicles - methods and applications

    Geir Johnsen;Martin Ludvigsen;Asgeir Sørensen;Lars Martin Sandvik Aas

  • Approaches to Economic Energy Management in Diesel–Electric Marine Vessels

    Espen Skjong;Tor Arne Johansen;Marta Molinas;Asgeir J. Sorensen

  • Neural network augmented identification of underwater vehicle models

    Pepijn W.J. van de Ven;Tor A. Johansen;Asgeir J. Sørensen;Colin Flanagan

  • Relative Velocity Control and Integral LOS for Path Following of Underactuated Surface Vessels

    Walter Caharija;Mauro Candeloro;Kristin Y. Pettersen;Asgeir J. Sørensen

  • Positioning of small-waterplane-area marine constructions with roll and pitch damping

    Asgeir J. Sørensen;Jann Peter Strand

  • Output feedback motion control system for observation class ROVs based on a high-gain state observer: Theoretical and experimental results

    Daniel de A. Fernandes;Asgeir J. Sørensen;Kristin Y. Pettersen;Décio C. Donha

Frequent Co-Authors

Tor Arne Johansen
Tor Arne Johansen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Thor I. Fossen
Thor I. Fossen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Olav Egeland
Olav Egeland Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Kristin Y. Pettersen
Kristin Y. Pettersen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Jan Tommy Gravdahl
Jan Tommy Gravdahl Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Antonio M. Pascoal
Antonio M. Pascoal Instituto Superior Técnico
Andrew R. Teel
Andrew R. Teel University of California, Santa Barbara
Sauro Longhi
Sauro Longhi Marche Polytechnic University
Murat Arcak
Murat Arcak University of California, Berkeley
Mogens Blanke
Mogens Blanke Technical University of Denmark

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