The Marine Control Workshop 2007 (MARCOW’07) will be held at Oppdal, Norway on the 15th and 16th of February 2007.

The workshop is intended to represent a forum where researchers and engineers from academia and industry, national as well as international, can gather in an open and friendly environment to interact through the exchange of new ideas and results. A main workshop goal is to serve as a tool that advances academic-industrial cooperation.

Scope

Identical to that formulated by the IFAC Technical Committee on Marine Systems:

The theory and application of control engineering and artificial intelligence techniques related to the maritime and offshore fields. To include marine structures, subsea systems, underwater vehicles, human factors, autonomous craft, and other devices within the marine environment. Aspects considered include navigation, guidance and control, monitoring and surveillance, fault diagnosis, optimization, planning, modelling, identification, and control architectures. Interests also span total vessel control to computer systems for marine applications, and detailed control of ancillary and auxiliary subsystems.

Venue

The workshop will take place at Quality Hotel Oppdal. The participants enjoy reduced room rates (breakfast included), which entail NOK 930 for a single room, and NOK 1000 for a double room. Please book rooms at your earliest convenience by sending an e-mail to post[@]oppdalbooking.no with booking code GUNNVEIG. Alternatively, you may call [+47] 72 40 08 02 (applying the same booking code). Also, please clarify dinner participation (no extra costs) while booking your room.

The hotel rooms are nominally available from 15.00 (3 pm) at the day of arrival, and must be vacated by 11.00 (11 am) at the day of departure. Wireless broadband internet is available throughout the hotel.

Useful links:

• Available audio-visual equipment
• Complementary hotel information
• Oppdal maps
• Oppdal weather reports
• Oppdal snow reports

Note that there will be no registration fee for the workshop participants.

Program

Final program and panel discussion details. An overview of the workshop program:

Day 1 (Thursday 15 February 2007)

09.00 Introduction & overview

Session 1
09.20 Academic research presentations
10.20 Coffee & refreshments
10.40 Academic research presentations
12.00 End of session 1

12.00 Lunch

Session 2
13.00 Industrial keynote presentation (Per Martinsen, Det Norske Veritas)
14.00 Industrial keynote presentation (Asgeir J. Sørensen, Marine Cybernetics)
15.00 Panel discussion (including coffee & refreshments)
17.00 End of session 2

19.00 Dinner

Day 2 (Friday 16 February 2007)

Session 3
09.20 Academic research presentations
10.20 Coffee & refreshments
10.40 Academic research presentations
12.00 End of session 3

12.00 Lunch

Session 4
13.00 Industrial keynote presentation (Vegard E. Hovstein, Peregrine Dynamics)
14.00 Panel discussion (including coffee & refreshments)
15.00 End of session 4

15.20 Conclusions & wrap-up

Participants

Academic participants come from:

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU; Norway)
• Technical University of Denmark (DTU; Denmark)

Industrial participants come from:

• Det Norske Veritas
• Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace
• Kongsberg Maritime
• Kongsberg Seatex
• Marine Cybernetics
• Marintek
• Peregrine Dynamics
• Rolls-Royce Marine
• Sintef

Organizing Committee

Morten Breivik, Tristan Perez, Thor I. Fossen, and Asgeir J. Sørensen.

Sponsor

The Norwegian Research Council through the Centre for Ships and Ocean Structures.