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Associate professor Erik Kyrkjebø is a robotic researcher and scholar in engineering cybernetics. His research interests spans from modelling and motion control of mechanical systems, with a particular interest in robotics and maritime vehicles, to student-active online learning methods in engineering. His current focus is on physcial Human-Robot Interaction and Cooperation: How can we estimate human motions and intentions to aid in the physical cooperation with robots? How can we control the physical interaction between robots and humans to allow for role-switching between leaders and followers? How can the robot learn a cooperative behaviour in a physical human-robot interaction? He currently supervises three PhD-students on these subjects.

He is currently the PI of the 4.5 M€ Teknoløft Sogn og Fjordane-project financed by the Research Council of Norway and other partners. The project has the ambition to double the industry-relevant research activity in the region Sogn og Fjordane through building and strenghtening the research groups in Robotics at HVL and Big Data at the partner Vestlandsforsking. He is also involved in other externally funded research project on collaborative robots for AGVs (CoBotAGV) and robotic handling of surgical instruments (FoT). He is currently heading the research group on Robotics at HVL.

Associate professor Kyrkjebø is the author of more than 30 scientific papers on modelling, motion control, and reinforcement learning for robots and martitime vehicles. He has been the PI of several externally funded robotics projects at HVL, and was during his 10 years as a researcher, research leader and senior scientist at SINTEF the PI of numerous projects and proposal toghether with industry partners such as Statoil (now Equinor), ABB and Elkem, and participated in several international research projects.

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Western Norway University of Applied Sciences: Sogndal, NO

2018-01-01 to present | Associate Professor (Faculty of Engineering and Science, dept. of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathmatical Science)
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Western Norway University of Applied Sciences: Sogndal, NO

2018-01-01 to 2019-07-31 | Vice-Dean of Research (Faculty of Engineering and Science)
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Western Norway University of Applied Sciences: Sogndal, Sogn og Fjordane, NO

2011-12-06 to 2017-12-31 | Vice-rector of R&D
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Western Norway University of Applied Sciences: Sogndal, Sogn og Fjordane, NO

2011-08-01 to 2011-12-05 | Dean (Dept. of Engineering and Science)
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SINTEF Digital: Trondheim, NO

2009-06-01 to 2011-07-31 | Senior Research Scientist (Dep. of Applied Cybernetics)
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SINTEF Digital: Trondheim, NO

2007-04-15 to 2011-07-31 | Research Manager (Dept. Applied Cybernetics)
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Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Trondheim, NO

2003-10-01 to 2006-12-31 | PhD-student (Dept. of Engineering Cybernetics)
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SINTEF Digital: Trondheim, NO

2001-01-01 to 2003-09-30 | Research scientist (Dept. of Applied Cybernetics)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Trondheim, NO

2003-10-01 to 2007-04-13 | PhD (Dept. of Engineering Cybernetics)
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Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Trondheim, NO

1998-08-15 to 2000-12-20 | Siv.ing/Master of Science (Dept. of Engineering Cybernetics)
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Western Norway University of Applied Sciences: Førde, NO

1995-08-15 to 1998-06-01 | Bachelor of Engineering in Automatic Control (Dept. of Control Engineering )
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Funding (3)

Teknoløft Sogn og Fjordane

2018-05 to 2024-04 | Grant
The Research Council of Norway (Oslo, NO)
GRANT_NUMBER: 280771
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Robotic Rehabilitation of Upper Limb After Stroke

2015-07 to 2016-05 | Grant
The Research Council of Norway (Oslo, NO)
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Next Generation Robotics for Norwegian Industry

2009-08 to 2013-07 | Grant
The Research Council of Norway (Oslo, NO)
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Works (33)

A Guide to Student-active Online Learning in Engineering

Modeling, Identification and Control
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.4173/mic.2020.2.5
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Erik Kyrkjebø

Autonomous Guided Vehicles for Smart Industries: The state of the art and research challenges

Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science
2020 | Conference paper
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Erik Kyrkjebø

Feasibility of the UR5 Industrial Robot for Robotic Rehabilitation of the Upper Limbs After Stroke

2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
2018 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8594413
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Erik Kyrkjebø

Inertial Human Motion Estimation for Physical Human-Robot Interaction Using an Interaction Velocity Update to Reduce Drift

Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
2018 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1145/3173386.3176955
Part of ISBN: 978-1-4503-5615-2
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Erik Kyrkjebø

Dynamic and kinematic observers for output coordination control of Euler-Lagrange systems: A comparison and applications

Modeling, Identification and Control
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.4173/mic.2015.2.3
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Erik Kyrkjebø

A Learning Camera Platform for Remote Operations with Industrial Manipulators

2012 IFAC Workshop on Automatic Control in Offshore Oil and Gas Production
2012 | Conference paper
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Erik Kyrkjebø

Active camera control with obstacle avoidance for remote operations with industrial manipulators: Implementation and experimental results

Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
2011 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6094823
Part of ISBN: 1612844545
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Erik Kyrkjebø

Safe Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Spaces through Lyapunov-Constrained Behavior

SCAI
2011 | Conference paper
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Erik Kyrkjebø

Stereographic projection for industrial manipulator tasks: Theory and experiments

Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
2011 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6095148
Part of ISBN: 1612844545
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Erik Kyrkjebø

A robotic concept for remote maintenance operations: A robust 3d object detection and pose estimation method and a novel robot tool

Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
2010 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5650198
Part of ISBN: 1424466741
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AUV pipeline following using reinforcement learning

Robotics (ISR), 2010 41st International Symposium on and 2010 6th German Conference on Robotics (ROBOTIK)
2010 | Conference paper
Part of ISBN: 3800732734
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Erik Kyrkjebø

Cognitive Challenges in Snake Robotics

Proc. 4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems
2010 | Conference paper
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Erik Kyrkjebø

New possibilities in next generation robotic systems for inspection and maintenance operations

Euromaintenance
2010 | Conference paper
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A Kinematic versus Dynamic Observer Approach to Coordination Control in terms of Estimation Principle and Practical Performance

European Control Conference
2009 | Conference paper
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A robotic concept for remote inspection and maintenance on oil platforms

ASME 2009 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering
2009 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2009-79702
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Erik Kyrkjebø

Adaptive snake robot locomotion: a benchmarking facility for experiments

European Robotics Symposium 2008
2008 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 3540783156
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Autonomous coordination of surface ships

Autonomous Surface Ship Symposium
2008 | Conference paper
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Operational space synchronization of two robot manipulators through a virtual velocity estimate

Modeling, Identification and Control
2008 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0332-7353
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Leader-Follower output reference state feedback synchronization control of Euler-Lagrange systems

Control & Automation, 2007. MED'07. Mediterranean Conference on
2007 | Conference paper
Part of ISBN: 142441282X
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Erik Kyrkjebø

Motion coordination of mechanical systems: Leader-follower synchronization of Euler-Lagrange systems using output feedback control

2007 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Operational space synchronization of two robot manipulators through a virtual velocity estimate

46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
2007 | Conference paper
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Erik Kyrkjebø

Output synchronization control of ship replenishment operations: Theory and experiments

Control Engineering Practice
2007 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0967-0661
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A virtual vehicle approach to output synchronization control

45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
2006 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2006.377082
Part of ISBN: 1424401712
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Erik Kyrkjebø

A virtual vehicle approach to underway replenishment

Group Coordination and Cooperative Control
2006 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 3540334688
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Leader-follower dynamic synchronization of surface vessels

7th IFAC MCMC
2006 | Conference paper
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Output synchronization control of Euler-Lagrange systems with nonlinear damping terms

Decision and Control, 2005 and 2005 European Control Conference. CDC-ECC'05. 44th IEEE Conference on
2005 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2005.1582946
Part of ISBN: 0780395670
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Erik Kyrkjebø

Tracking from a synchronization control perspective

17th IMACS World Congress
2005 | Conference paper
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Trajectory tracking, path following and formation control of autonomous marine vehicles

2005 | Report
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Experimental results on synchronization control of ship rendezvous operations

IFAC CAMS 2004
2004 | Conference paper
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Erik Kyrkjebø

MVT: A marine visualization toolbox for MATLAB

IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine System
2004 | Conference paper
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Erik Kyrkjebø

Ship replenishment using synchronization control

IFAC MCMC
2003 | Conference paper
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Modelling of communication in a distributed robotic system by use of Rose Real-time UML

10th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED2002
2002 | Conference paper
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Three-axis attitude determination using magnetometers and a startracker

2000 | Supervised student publication
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