Work-Package WP2: Motion Compensation
Wednesday April 13, NOV, Kjøita 21-25, Kristiansand. 2nd Floor, Auditorium Festningen
08:30 – 09:30 WP2: General Overview, status, plans.
09:30 – 10:30 WP2: Ongoing work
10:30 – 11:30 Discussions / Idea generation

Work-Package WP4: Modelling and Simulation
Wednesday April 13, NOV, Kjøita 21-25, Kristiansand. 2nd Floor, Auditorium Festningen
12:15 – 13:15 WP4: General Overview, status, plans.
13:15 – 14:15 WP4: Ongoing work
14:15 – 15:30 Discussions / Idea generation

Work-Package WP6: Data Analytics, IT Integration and Big Data
Friday April 1, Campus Grimstad, C4-095, Time 12:00 – 13:30

The PhD positions WP4.1 (NTNU), WP4.2 (NTNU) and WP5.3 (UiA) are now re-advertised internally for the entire consortium. Employees with a Masters degree and grade average of B or better in all SFI Partner companies are allowed to apply to these positions. The project descriptions are advertised in ProjectPlace (interested candidates should contact HR in their respective company). The application deadlines are April 22 for WP4.1 and WP4.2 and April 13 for WP5.3.

Knut Berg Kaldestad (WP3) will attend the GPU Technology Conference, Silicon Valley, on April 4-7. See http://www.gputechconf.com for more details. Impressions from GTC 2016 will be presented at the SFI Conference, May 10-11 in Grimstad.

The video available at http://folk.ntnu.no/torstem/crane/myhre2016collision_detection.mp4 demonstrates results from WP2.2 High-Performance Control for Motion Compensation. The title of the work is: Collision Detection for Visual Tracking of Crane Loads Using a Particle Filter.

The WP3 presentation at the conference NFA Autonomy, March 2016 is available at: https://sfi.mechatronics.no/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SFI-20160316-Autonomy.pdf

Sondre Sanden Tørdal (UiA) and Per Ove Løvsland (Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus) testing relative motion accuracy using two Kongsberg MRUs, two Stewart platforms, one Comau robot and the FARO laser tracker mounted on top of the smallest Stewart platform. Per Ove is testing the MRUs with radio links as part of his Bachelor thesis at HiOA and the SFI partner company MacGregor in Kristiansand.

Sign up for the conference here: https://eras.uia.no/reg.php?id=1626.

The conference program is available at https://sfi.mechatronics.no/?p=416.

Keynote Speakers on May 10:
Bjørn Rudshaug – Strategic Project Manager Automatic Drilling Control at Statoil.
Jan Martin Grindheim, Macgregor: Transfer of competence from oil and gas sector to offshore wind.
Nina Kyllingstad, Agderforskning: results from network analysis of NODE companies and subsea companies in Rogaland.