Daniel Hagen

📝 Biography:

Daniel is a curious, ambitious, conscientious skilled worker, interdisciplinary engineer, educator, scientist, and reserve officer passionate about Intelligent Mechatronics, innovation, R&D, management, and leadership.
After completing compulsory military service, he gained relevant leadership experience through his career and courses in the Norwegian Armed Forces. Daniel graduated with a Master’s degree in 2014 based on his trade certificate in automation mechanics (2009) and successfully defended his Ph.D. in 2020.
Before starting a joint Ph.D. education in 2016, he worked for two years with offshore drilling equipment control systems worldwide, both in the test and commissioning phases and during operation. Between 2020 and 2022 he worked as a senior R&D engineer responsible for the control systems of offshore lifting and handling equipment such as 3D compensated knuckle-boom cranes for offshore wind service vessels.
Alongside his full-time role as an Associate Professor in Mechatronics he is also the Head of the Norwegian Motion Laboratory (Motion Lab) at UiA and involved in a number of board and committee positions.

💼 Work:

• Associate Professor in Mechatronics | University of Agder (UiA), Faculty of Engineering and Science
• Head of The Norwegian Motion Laboratory (MotionLab)
• Employee elected member of the Faculty Board (2024-2027)
• Member of The Faculty's Research Committee

🍻 Society:

• Head of The Norwegian Society of Mechatronics (NSOM)

🔬 Research:

Involved in several research centres, groups, and projects.

• Intelligent Mechatronics | Research collaboration
A research collaboration between experts in Mechatronics and AI with a focus on developing intelligent methods for designing and operating industrial (offshore) mechatronics systems (machines).
• Top Research Centre Mechatronics (TRCM) | Priority Research Centre
TRCM aims to contribute to the competitiveness of the Norwegian industry through the following research groups:
• Robotics, Vision and Control
• Offshore Mechatronics
• Intelligent Monitoring
• Machine Design
• Biomechatronics and Collaborative Robotics
• Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) | Priority Research Centre
CAIR focuses on pushing the frontier of AI research with Green and Democratic AI for all.
• Systems engineering and modelling | Research group
Research group at the Department of Information and Communication Technology.

👨‍🏫 Teaching:

Involved in teaching the following master's courses in Mechatronics:

• Robotics and Instrumentation
• Programming for Intelligent Robotics and Industrial systems
• Design of Industrial Mechatronic Systems
• Advanced Robotics

🪖 Other Positions:

Reserve Officer in the Norwegian Armed Forces.

• Operation Officer | Agder and Rogaland Home Guard District (HV-08)
• Member of the Fund Board | Norwegian Reservist Association
• Chairman of the Election Committee | Norwegian Reservist Association - Department Lister
• Head of the Order's Chancellery | Norwegian Reservist Association - Department Lister

🎒 Competencies and Interests:

• Digital Twins
• Digital Tools for Automated Design
• Machine Vision
• Perception
• Real-time Localization & 3D Mapping
• Autonmous Navigation, Motion Planning & Control
• Applied AI/ML | Physics Informed Machine Learning, YOLO object detection
• Self-diagnostics
• Electro-hydraulic Actuation Systems | Fluid power, Electric drives, Motion control
• Robotics and Automation | Mobile Robots and Manipulators
• Offshore Lifting and Load-handling Equipment | 3D Motion Compensation
• Real-time Embedded Systems and Communications | TwinCAT and EtherCAT
• Programming and Software Development | PLC, ROS2, C++, MATLAB, Python, Rust
• Autonomous Systems | Sense-Think-Act
• Sensor Fusion
• Systems Engineering
• Model-based Design | MATLAB/Simulink
• Simulation-based Optimization