Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen

Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen (born 1969) is a Norwegian engineer whose research involves nonlinear control theory and its application to controlling the motion of both watercraft and snakebots.[1] She is a professor of engineering cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and the founder of Eelume AS.[2]

Pettersen with one of her snakebots

Education and career

Pettersen was born on 28 January 1969 in Fana. She earned a master's degree in engineering cybernetics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1991, and completed a Ph.D. at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 1996. She joined the NTNU faculty in the same year. She was head of the department of engineering cybernetics from 2011 to 2013, and worked as CEO of Eelume from 2015 to 2016.[3]

Books

Pettersen is the coauthor of two books in the Springer-Verlag Advances in Industrial Control Series: Snake Robots: Modelling, Mechatronics, and Control (with Pål Liljebäck, Øyvind Stavdahl, and Jan Tommy Gravdahl, 2013) and Vehicle-Manipulator Systems: Modeling for Simulation, Analysis, and Control (with Pål Johan From and Jan Tommy Gravdahl, 2014).

Recognition

Pettersen is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters,[4] elected in 2018, and was also elected to the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences in 2013.[3] She became a Fellow of the IEEE in 2017.[1][3]

She is the 2020 winner of the Hendrik Wade Bode Lecture Prize of the IEEE Control Systems Society.[5][6]

References
  1. Seehusen, Joachim (12 March 2017), "Profil: Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen – Hun har utviklet slangeroboter og jobber med å lukeparkere skip", Teknisk Ukeblad (in Norwegian)
  2. "Kristin Y. Pettersen", Employee profile, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, retrieved 2020-03-27
  3. Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2020-03-27
  4. Gruppe VIII: Teknologi, Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, retrieved 2020-03-26
  5. Norwegian researcher wins IEEE Control Systems Society BODE award: First Norwegian and only the second woman to win the award, Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, 13 December 2019 – via AAAS EurekAlert
  6. Nilsen, Kjersti Lunden (20 December 2019), "Subsea "Snake Robot" Inventor Wins Prestigious Cybernetics Prize", Maritime Executive
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