27 projects

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Er kjernekraft aktuelt for Norge?

Under the Paris Agreement, Norway has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. So far, we have only achieved 5 percent of this target, leaving us with just seven years to reduce the remaining 50 percent to meet our goals. By 2050, ...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Autonom saksbehandling med maskinlæring

The project aims to make municipal case processing faster and more efficient using new technology. Imagine that when you apply to build a garage, a computer could assist in processing your application instead of a human case worker. This could not only save time but also resources. Though it sou...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Hybrid Models for the Design of ML-enabled Machinery for Sustainable Offshore and Subsea Well Service Applications

The traditional well service machinery is manually operated and requires human intervention for optimal performance. The design of this machinery tends to be conservative and leads to bulky and heavy units being deployed offshore. In the recent decade, there has been rapid development and widespr...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Rogaland

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Innovation in International Development.

Can finance fight poverty? This research investigates whether—and how—finance can contribute to poverty reduction in developing economies. Focusing on the rise of impact investing, which promises to deliver both financial returns and measurable social or environmental impact (so-called blended va...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Heterogeneous environment of digital twins for industrial applications

This PhD project explores the innovative concept of a heterogeneous environment of digital twins, focusing on how diverse digital twin technologies can interact and collaborate seamlessly. Imagine a future where digital twins of robots, humans, and their work environments are interconnected, crea...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Agder

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Synthetic data for clinical validation of Artificial Intelligence powered tools in healthcare

This is done through the following questions: What needs to be assessed to ensure the quality of synthetic data for use in AI tools for healthcare services? When can synthetic health data be considered anonymous enough to be freely processed under EU law? How do synthetic data degrade when synth...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Akershus

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

My Avatar – Mobility in education for children and adolescents with neuromuscular diseases in Scandinavia through use of telepresence robots

The term neuromuscular diseases (NMD) covers a range of different diagnoses characterized by a progressive decline in functionality and activity. The reduced level of functionality has a negative impact on participation in everyday activities like school and leisure. Children with NMD consider th...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Machine Learning in Geoscience; Weakly-Supervised Seismic Facies Interpretation

Seismology is popularly known from the study of earthquakes. However, seismology can also entail the exploration for natural resources using man-made seismic sources. Instead of an earthquake, a large vibrating truck can hit the ground, or an air-gun can send pressure waves through the ocean, cre...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2025

Location: Akershus

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Machine Learning in Geophysical Processing, Seismic Interpretation and Subsurface Modelling

In recent years, machine learning has become an increasingly important tool for automatic seismic interpretation. Today, only a very small portion of the available seismic data is utilized, as the interpretation of this data is highly time-consuming. The aim of this research is to develop automat...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Akershus

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Data-driven care pathways: augmenting clinical process design with decision support

Electronic health record (EHR) systems are a cornerstone of modern healthcare: they give health professionals quick access to important patient information, letting them cooperate with professionals from other disciplines and locations when treating patients. At the same time, they also strive to...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Adapting and Utilizing Project Portfolio Management (PPM) in the Public Sector: Developments, Trends and Tools for Making the Transition

The purpose of this project is to examine and improve the ability of the complex organization to work with innovation portfolio management as a holistic method for making decisions related to the organization's innovation portfolio. Over the last couple of decades, vast amounts of research and pr...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Applied Transfer Learning in the Energy Domain

Machine learning is becoming increasingly important for operating the electrical power system, and machine learning algorithms are highly dependent on historical data. Modern machine learning algorithms based on deep neural networks have superior results compared to traditional machine learning m...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Deep machine learning for Ocular Surface Disorder (OSD) – A structured search for new and objective diagnostic criteria

iFocus Eyclinic has sofar initiated three separate PhD projects all focusing on Ocular Surface Disorder (OSD) in patients scheduled for cataract surgery. Project I: 306649 - Ocular Surface Disorder (OSD) and its implication for refractive accuracy and precision in cataract surgery = Epidemiologi...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Rogaland

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Exploring tiny, low latency virtual machines for edge-computing

Edge computing One up-and-coming area of computation is edge-computing, where the computation is on servers, but also very close to end-users. The goal is to have low-latency access to compute resources for all kinds of devices that benefit from not doing these computations themselves, or does no...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

How to improve Cyber Security performance by researching human behavior and improve processes in an industrial environment.

Reading a cybersecurity standard is a tedious task, and the subject is vast and new for many within the process and manufacturing industry. These obstacles make it challenging to enter the world of cybersecurity. This PhD aims to lower the entry barriers and ensure that as many companies as possi...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Collaboration models in offshore helicopter personnel transportation and emergency response planning

Objectives: Planning problems in offshore energy logistics are rather complex, however the research in this field is scarce and has a huge potential for improvement. The aim of the project is to provide knowledge and solutions enabling collaboration between offshore energy companies in logistics...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Rogaland

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Next generation radio architecture for accurate localization

Localization is the process of obtaining a devices location, either in an indoor or an outdoor environment. Localization finds applications in smart cities, industry, medicine, and rescue services amongst others.There is ample research opportunity to improve the technology and enable new emerging...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Vision-based AI for infrastructure inspection support

Modern-day societies depend heavily on electricity, placing immense demands on maintaining reliable and sustainable power grids. To prevent outages and ensure consistent supply, utilities conduct regular inspections of powerlines and components. Traditionally, these inspections involve foot patro...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Østfold

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Uncertainty and robustness in house price prediction models

Precise valuation of real estate assets is of high importance to banks, insurance companies and real estate agents. Valuation can either be done by physical inspection by an appraiser or real estate agent, or by use of an Automated Valuation Model (AVM). An AVM is a statistical model that estimat...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Optimization of Tripping IN/OUT in Drilling Operations using Machine Learning

The project made an official request for the actual tripping in, tripping out, and drilling operation data to Equinor in March 2021. Equinor agreed to facilitate the research with the real-time data from the new source data while tripping tool (NOV DWT) and wired drill pipe telemetry system (NOV ...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Rogaland

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Økt sikkerhet i dype brønner - Ultralyd for å differensiere fluider og faste materialer bak stålrør

The main objective of the doctoral thesis is the processing of field data from deep-sea wells, where the Ph.D. candidate will work on testing and developing new algorithms that will significantly improve the identification and verification of cementation as a secure barrier to CO2 storage. The re...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Optimal design og drift av energisystemer ved bruk av maskinlæring og kunstig intelligens

The project has explored the use of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and so-called smart solutions in thermal energy systems. The research was conducted as an industrial PhD in collaboration between Norconsult and the University of Stavanger (UiS). The aim has been to investigate the po...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Akershus

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Bruk av forsterkende læring i håndtering av feilhendelser i kraftsystemet.

The Nordic transmission system for electricity is very reliable. But sometimes power failures still occur. In case of a failure event, it is important to act promptly. This project will try to develop methods that use artificial intelligence to quickly find smart actions to manage failures in the...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Deep learning for sleep, mental, and emotional stage recognition from non-contact sensors of mental health patients.

In medical science, understanding the nuances of human sleep and activity patterns is about advancing knowledge and crafting tools that enhance healthcare delivery. My PhD journey, punctuated by developing deep learning algorithms, offers insights into two critical areas: sleep stage classificati...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2025

Location: Agder

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Information management and digital transformation in AEC projects

The PhD project was carried out as an industrial PhD. The overall goal was to develop an improved product that consultants in the construction industry deliver to their customers. More specifically, the research focused on the following goals: 1. Map the current use of information in BIM-based pr...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Digital Compliance Management for Operations (DCMops)

The work during the last period has been spent on preparing, designing, and documenting the concept for identifier management as a part of the work towards creating the machine-readable integration between systems. This work resulted in a paper (attached) that has been accepted and that will be p...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Real time simulation enhancement of drilling operation measurements

A commercial version of the developed model is now running as a digital twin in MPD operations. Its purpose is to estimate bottomhole pressure and send control signals to surface equipment so that the pressure in the well can be maintained. Results from these runs are presented in the article “Us...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2025

Location: Agder