Rudy R. Negenborn      Rudy Negenborn
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Transport Engineering and Logistics
Dept. of Maritime and Transport Technology
Delft University of Technology
Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD  Delft
The Netherlands

Room B-3-300
How to reach Faculty ME

tel: +31 (0)15 27 86529
e-mail: r.r.negenborn@tudelft.nl

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Smart Shipping

Researchlab Autonomous Shipping (RAS)

Autonomous Vessel Fleet


Interacting Vessels


Towards Zero-Emission Shipping


Autonomous Vessel Family

Delfia-1 Star Autonomous Vessel
10x Delfia-1 Star


SeaBax-Inside Autonomous Vessel
SeaBax

Friends of the Family

GEOxyz
GeoSurveyor X by GEOxyz (ISHY partner)
(Photo courtesy GEOxyz)



Vera Cruz
Vera Cruz by Vera Cruz Shipping (ISHY partner)


Natalia
Natalia by Hybrid Marine (ISHY partner)

TU Delft Electric Autonomous Vehicle
TU Delft Electric Autonomous Vehicle
(Concept by L. Braam)



Smart Logistics


NOVIMOVE: Introduction


NOVIMOVE News
[All NOVIMOVE News Updates]




International Conference on Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships 2023 (ICMASS'23)

ICMASS Proceedings Open Access
[ICMASS'23 Open Access Proceedings]


Call for Participation ICMASS'23
[All about ICMASS'23]




Computational Logistics 2015

Computational Logistics

The people of ICCL'15

ICCL'15 - International Conference on
Computational Logistics (ICCL) 2015
Delft, The Netherlands


Main research interests: Coordination within and among transport hubs

4S Framework:
Real-time coordination of
Smart Equipment in Smart Hubs
for Smart Ports in Smart Networks

Anticipating the
Massive introduction of
Sensing, Computation, and
Communication Technologies

 
   


Spotlight publication

Closed-loop scheduling and control of waterborne AGVs for energy-efficient Inter Terminal Transport


"We propose closed-loop energy-efficient scheduling and control of an autonomous Inter Terminal Transport (ITT) system using waterborne Autonomous Guided Vessels (waterborne AGVs). A novel pick-up and delivery problem considering safe intervals between berthing time slots of different waterborne AGVs is proposed. Waterborne AGVs are controlled in a cooperative distributed way to carry out assigned ..." [More...]

Closed-loop scheduling and control of waterborne AGVs for energy-efficient Inter Terminal Transport. H. Zheng, R.R. Negenborn, G. Lodewijks. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, vol. 105, pp. 261-278, September 2017.   




Prospective students Multi-Machine Engineering (MME):
Interested in becoming a multi-machine Master of Science at TU Delft?
This video tells you all about our 2-year MSc program.


Inauguration Speech
on communication, logistics, autonomous ships, and multi-machine engineering


"What if ships could talk?", or: Coordination for Real-Time Logistics
[Watch the public presentation online]



Infographics
Autonomous ships -- How will they work?
How will autonomous ships work?


Books
Distributed Model Predictive Control Made Easy   Transport of Water versus Transport over Water   Intelligent 
Infrastructures -- The Book


Research in Sketches
Synchromodal Transport

Coordination Challenges for Inland Shipping
[More...]


Active topic cloud (past 3 years)





Keywords
logistics, intermodal transport, container transport
transport over water, control of ships

transportation networks, inter-terminal transport
water networks power networks, gas networks

multi-agent systems, model predictive control, hybrid systems
reinforcement learning, Kalman filters, learning robots



The Brain of TU Delft
The Brain of TU Delft




NWO Perspectief Programme
"AmmoniaDrive"



H2020 MG-2-6-2019 -- NOVIMOVE:
"Novel inland waterway transport concepts"



Horizon CL-5-2022-D5-01-05 -- SEAMLESS:
"Safe, Efficient and Autonomous: Multimodal Library of European Shortsea and inland Solutions"




NWO National Science Agenda
"Path2Zero"




HORIZON EUROPE CL5-2021-D5-01-13 -- DT4GS:
Open Collaboration & Digital Twin Infrastructure
for Green Smart Shipping




H2020 European training and research network on
Autonomous Barges for Smart Inland Shipping


REACT-EU Op-Zuid Project:
Fieldlab Autonomous Sailing Technology (FAST)



Promoting Green Transport and Mobility:
"AVATAR"


Maritime Innovation-Impulse Project:
NoMES: Novel and Minimized Emissons Shipping




NWO Topsector Water & Maritiem:
Blauwe Route -- "TRiLOGy" and "READiNESS"


Interreg 2 Seas:
"ISHY: Implementation of Ship Hybridisation"
A multi-machine engineering perspective


H2020 EU.3.2.5 2017:
Cross-cutting marine and maritime research:
"Space@Sea -- Transport & Logistics"


"Impulse Autonomous Shipping for Amsterdam 2018"



SmartPort 2017
"Port Impact of Autonomous Ship Applications"



NWO Social & Physical Sciences 2016
"Complexity Methods for Predictive Synchromodality"
(COMET-PS)



STW Perspectief 2015 Program "i-CAVE"

AIDA - Automatic Identification of Research Trends
Strategic Innovation Project AIDA:
Automatic Identification of Research Trends

GasDrive Concept
STW Water 2015 Program "GasDrive"


Topsector Water/STW Maritime 2013
Program "ShipDrive"



Next Generation Port Infrastructures, Powered by Maasvakte 2
Inter Terminal Transport at the Port of Rotterdam
[More...]


    Next Generation Port Infrastructures, Powered by Maasvakte 2
Towards guaranteed port accessibility
[More...]


China Scholarship Council



Innovational Research Incentives Scheme
2010 VENI Grant
[More...]




Position paper
Koersen op AI
Maritime Ambitions in the area
of AI in The Netherlands




AIDA -- The Booklet
AIDA -- The Booklet -- Automatic Research Positioning & Trend Identification
Automatic Research Positioning
& Trend Identification




Journal Special Issues
Special Issue Transportation Research Part E
Computational Transport Logistics at Work
(Special issue of Transportation Research Part E)



Special Issue SWZ Maritime on Autonomous Ships
Autonomous Ships
(Special issue of SWZ Maritime 2017/02)


Special Issue SWZ Maritime on Propulsion Systems
Propulsion Systems
(Special issue of SWZ Maritime 2015/10)


Special Issue Water Prediction and Control Technology
Water Prediction and Control Technology
(Special issue of Journal of Hydroinformatics)





Videos on Inter Terminal Transport

Opportunities for Real-Time Coordination



Automated MTS and waterborne AGVs as solution?