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Thor I. Fossen

Thor I. Fossen publishes mostly in Control and Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Ocean Engineering, on topics such as Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems, Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks and Inertial Sensor and Navigation.

World rank
#12,239
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Norway
#37
of 6,482
Works
109
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
10.2

What does Thor I. Fossen research?

Control and Systems Engineering: 33.6%Aerospace Engineering: 17.9%Ocean Engineering: 16.4%Computer Networks and Communications: 7.1%other fields: 25.0%34%top field
Control and Systems Engineering33.6%Aerospace Engineering17.9%Ocean Engineering16.4%Computer Networks and Communications7.1%other fields25.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Control and Systems Engineering34% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering18% of their works
  3. 3Ocean Engineering16% of their works
  4. 4Computer Networks and Communications7% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thor I. Fossen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Adaptive Control, Sliding Mode Control, Disturbance Observer, Nonlinear Systems, Sensor Fusion, Event-Triggered Control, Path Planning and Inertial Navigation Systems.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Adaptive Control262 topics
  2. Sliding Mode Control262 topics
  3. Disturbance Observer211 topic
  4. Nonlinear Systems211 topic
  5. Sensor Fusion182 topics
  6. Event-Triggered Control112 topics
  7. Path Planning102 topics
  8. Inertial Navigation Systems91 topic
  9. Kalman Filtering91 topic
  10. Nonlinear Estimation91 topic
  11. Particle Filters91 topic
  12. CFD Simulations81 topic
  13. Ship Maneuvering81 topic
  14. Consensus61 topic
  15. Multi-Agent Systems61 topic
  16. Collision Avoidance51 topic
  17. Maritime Transportation51 topic
  18. Networked Control Systems51 topic
  19. Nonholonomic Constraints51 topic
  20. Stability Analysis51 topic
  21. Trajectory Tracking51 topic

Where does Thor I. Fossen work?

Thor I. Fossen's main affiliation in the publication record is Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.

How many publications and citations does Thor I. Fossen have?

Science Explorer counts 109 works and 1,109 citations for Thor I. Fossen, ranking #12,239 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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