Industrial Perception: A Guide to Autonomy
The guide facilitates increased autonomy by bridging academic research and industrial innovation. Here, the critical insight required to understand and invest in current and evolving technologies is provided.
Atle Aalerud
PhD Candidate
The disputation will be streamed on this link: www.uia.no/live/emne/phd_defense
Atle Aalerud of the Faculty of Engineering and Science at the University of Agder has submitted his thesis entitled «Industrial Perception of a Human World: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Autonomy» and will defend the thesis for the PhD-degree Thursday 14 October 2021.
He has followed the PhD-programme at the Faculty of Engineering and Science at the University of Agder, with Specialisation in Engineering Sciences, scientific field Mechatronics.
Summary of the thesis by Atle Aalerud:
Industrial Perception of a Human World: A Hitchhiker's Guide To Autonomy
For several decades, industrial automation has helped companies save money and increase workplace safety.
Robotics has been implemented in a cost-efficient and secure manner to replace repetitive and dangerous tasks. These systems typically follow a scheme where sensors provide information so the robot can execute the correct actions.
From limited, blind robots -
Traditionally, robots have been blind, and without knowing their surroundings, motion is limited to operating in a known environment without moving obstacles.
But most of the world is not static, mapped, and controlled. On the contrary, it is unstructured and changes in response to influence from humans, animals, and harsh weather conditions.
Consequently, mapping the environment in real-time is the most significant contribution in achieving a higher degree of autonomy.
A concise technological guide is provided in this work, where the most relevant environment sensing technologies, such as camera, radar, and laser, are explained from an industrial perspective.
- to real time mapping and increased autonomy
It is explained how the sensor data is fused to create a real-time map of the environment. This map can be used to prevent accidents, increase efficiency, and automate new tasks.
The guide facilitates increased autonomy by bridging academic research and industrial innovation.
Here, the critical insight required to understand and invest in current and evolving technologies is provided.
This insight further facilitates the planning of sensor requirements for real-time maps used in new and existing facilities. For example, to be used in human-robot interaction, offshore drilling, crane operations, logistics, and mobile robotics.
Disputation facts:
The trial lecture and the public defence will take place in Auditorium C2 040, Campus Grimstad
Professor Kjell Gunnar Robbersmyr, Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Agder, will chair the disputation.
The trial lecture Thursday 14 October 2021 at 10:15 hours
Public defence Thursday 14 October 2021 at 12:15 hours
The disputation will be streamed on this link: www.uia.no/live/emne/phd_defense
Given topic for trial lecture: «Motion planning for robotic manipulators in dynamic environments»
Thesis Title: «Industrial Perception of a Human World: A Hitchhiker's Guide To Autonomy»
Search for the thesis in AURA - Agder University Research Archive, a digital archive of scientific papers, theses and dissertations from the academic staff and students at the University of Agder.
The thesis is available here:
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2783564
The Candidate: Atle Aalerud (1983, Bærum). Before starting his academic education in 2008, he worked as an electrician. He completed his BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Oslo University College and his MSc in Mechatronics at the University of Agder in June 2013. In the following years, he worked mainly on Anti Collision Systems for the Oil and Gas service provider National Oilwell Varco. August 2016, he joined the Department of Engineering Sciences as a Ph.D. Research Fellow, funded through the SFI Offshore Mechatronics project. Atle is currently employed as a Senior Researcher in the Technology Dept. at NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS.
Opponents:
First opponent: Professor Jim Tørresen, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo
Second opponent: Researcher PhD Andreas Hermann, GPU-Voxels, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany
Professor Rade Ciric, Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Agder, is appointed as the administrator for the assessment committee.
Supervisors in the doctoral work were Professor Geir Hovland, UiA (main supervisor) and Associate Professor David Alireza Anisi, UiA (co-supervisor)
Opponent ex auditorio:
The chair invites members of the public to pose questions ex auditorio in the introduction to the public defense, with deadlines. It is a prerequisite that the opponent has read the thesis.