Misc. Postings
2014 New Job
As of April 2014 I am in another position. This page will not be
updated any more.
2013 Single turbine wake
The figure below is a simulation of the wake and pressure around a
single wind turbine. The simulation was done using
SOWFA. The
simulation speed should correspond to a real turbine in a real world
setting. Initially the blades are pitched out of the wind and after
a couple of seconds it starts pitching in and rotating. The ambient
wind speed is 12 m/s. The left figures show the turbine from the
front and the right show slices of the wake seen from behind the
turbine. The top figures show the wind speed, while the lower
figures show the pressure.
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2013 OFFWIND project
The goal of the project is to simulate the wind flow through a wind
farm.
Our part of the project is related to controlling the turbines and the power reference to each turbine such that the optimal power output from the wind farm is obtained. Furthermore to predict the power output from the farm during the next short period around 1 hour (also known as nowcasting).
2010-2013 Vestas Turbine Control Programme
I am working as a postdoc on the Vestas Turbine Control
Programme (VTCP). The programme is sponsored by Vestas Wind
Systems A/S and Aalborg University. The objective of the
project is to investigate various aspects of new control
methods for wind turbines.
2012-
I have stopped trying to make regular updates on this list, since I
just don't get it done. This, however, does not mean that the rest
of this homepage is not updated.
10th August 2011
The Vestas Turbine Control Programme we are hosting a symposium in
wind turbine control at November 28th and 29th. The programme for
the symposium can be seen here:
Wind Turbine
Control Symposium
1 August 2011
A book chapter (
Navigation Among Humans) based on some the work on my Ph.D. thesis is now
published.
Reference:
Mikael Svenstrup (2011). Navigation Among Humans,
Advances in Robot Navigation, Alejandra Barrera (Ed.),
ISBN: 978-953-307-346-0, InTech
See
publications
page.
Publishers version is available from:
Navigation Among Humans
27 June 2011
Now a final version of my Ph.D. thesis, can be found
here.
24 May 2011
Ph.D. - been there, done that, got the
HAT :-)
24 May 2011
Now the Ph.D. defence is scheduled for May 24th:
See
announcement here.
A draft version of the thesis is
here.
Update: It is now in the final version
here.
12 May 2011
I presented our paper:
Minimising the computational complexity of the
RRT algorithm - a practical approach (see
it
here) at
ICRA 2011 in Shanghai (the International
Conference on Robotics and Automation).
December 1st, 2010
Started on a two year Postdoc within wind energy at the Vestas Turbine
Control Program
November 2nd, 2010
Have now made a short CV on
this page.
November 1st, 2010
The summary of the work, which I have made during my
Ph.D. project is
now a bit more up to date.
July 6th, 2010
A long time without updates has passed, so here is a short update:
- Had a great stay at University of Nevada during the autum (2009)
- During the spring I have been working on minimizing computational
complexity of an implemented RRT algorithm for generating a trajectory
through a human crowd.
- Had a paper "An adaptive robot game"
on ISR 2010
- I have an accepted IROS paper this
year, whith the RRT implemenations without the optimization.
- Just attended RSS
2010, which was very interesting.
August 24th, 2009
Within a very short timeframe, I think I am going to put some photos
and updates from Reno and the surroundings
here. - Sorry the text
is in Danish only.
August 24th, 2009
It turns out that I am very bad at updating this news section. Thus, I
have decided to change the name to
Misc. Postings. Consequently, it
will only contain information, which I just happen to feel like
writing (basically as I have done previously).
August 23rd, 2009
About a week ago, I arrived at Reno in Nevada. Here, I am going to spend the next four
months at UNR (University of Nevada). I will spend most of my time at the
Robotics Research Lab, which is directed
by
Monica
Nicolescu. Exactly what I am going to do is still TBD, but maybe
it has something to do with robots.
June 23rd, 2009
I have now updated the description of my
Ph.D work, such that it is
more complete and up to date.
June 16th, 2009
Our paper
Adaptive Human aware Navigation based on Motion Pattern
Analysis (see
it
here) for
RO-MAN 2009 was accepted.
June 9th, 2009
The Segway is already back from repair in the US.
May 27th, 2009
Updated list of phd courses
here.
May 25th, 2009
While I was in Japan, our
Segway RMP robot broke down, and unfortunately have to be sent back to US for repair - hope that we get it back soon.
May 12-17, 2009
Visited Kobe, Japan for the
ICRA2009 conference.
March 25th, 2009
A short description of my Ph.D. project has been added to the
phd-project page.
March 17th, 2009
Lately we have been doing experiments for a paper submission to
IEEE RO-MAN 2009 - the International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. The deadline is March 25th.
February 10th, 2009
Updated the list of Ph.D. courses and added some links on the page.
January 7th, 2009
The paper for
ICRA2009 was accepted - see
Publications.
January 6th, 2009
Updated Ph.D. studyplan uploaded under
publications (Other Stuff).
Ph.D. Project description changed (
here).
December 19th , 2008
The Video Submission for
HRI2009 was accepted.
December 2nd, 2008
Miscellaneous minor updates to the homepage.
December 1st, 2008
A video submitted for
HRI2009. The video is from an
experiment done in December 2007.
November 25th, 2008
Got 2nd best paper award in the course "Writing and Reviewing
Scientific Papers" (see
courses).
The task was to write a short popular
paper about my research.
October 6th, 2008
Two articles on
jp.dk and
videnskab.dk
The articles are about Robotino and the recent experiments concerning estimation of human interest in interaction.
September 15th, 2008
Papers submitted for
ICRA2009 and
HRI2009.
August 27th, 2008
Added two more project proposals for 5th and 7th semester respectively:
project proposal.
August 14th, 2008
Added 10th semester
project proposal.
August 13th, 2008
Top navigation bar added on the page.
June 25th, 2008
Publications page added.
May 7th, 2008
List of phd courses updated
April 20th, 2008
Two papers accepted for
Eurobot 2008 - see
publications.
April 8th, 2008
List of phd courses inserted under
phd
April 4th, 2008
Links inserted in the left navigation panel, and new pages added.
Februrary 19th, 2008
Quote inserted.
Februrary 13th, 2008
Now the page is XHTML and CSS valid. Changed some colours.
Februrary 5th, 2008
Page now up and running
