MSc student project topics

(for MSc students TEL and TIL)

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Would you like to contribute to development of one of the following challenging and highly societally relevant topics with your MSc projects?
(This could be within the framework of a literature study, research assignment, graduation project, interdisciplinairy project, and could involve a company.)

    Water and land transport
  • Hovercrafts for Water+Land Transport: Investigating the potential of this new and innovative type of transport

  • Inland shipping, vessels, waterborne transport
  • Improving a recently proposed river model for efficient transport over water in cooperation with researchers in France (with possibly a research visit.)
  • Optimization and coordination for transport over delay-free and reliable inland shipping networks
  • Control for autonomous, intelligent, and coordinated vessel dynamics
  • Use of AIS vessel information data to derive actual, real life vessel behavior
  • Using autonomous car technology to create autonomous vessels

  • Container transport, container terminal control, port logistics, intermodal transport
  • Autonomous control for sustainable container terminals
  • Refrigerated container technology: Intelligent reefers for keeping goods cool in an energy efficient way
  • Real-time control for balancing of energy flows in and around container terminals
  • Design of an inter terminal transport system in the port of Rotterdam
  • Optimizing the performance of intermodal transport networks

  • Conveyor belt control
  • Improving the energy efficiency of conveyor belts with model predictive control

  • Lab setups
  • Detecting position and heading of vehicles (AGVs or vessels) using multiple low hanging overhead cameras


Keywords:
Intermodal/Synchromodal Transport, Intelligent Infrastructures, Terminal and Port Operations, Waterborne Transport
Optimization, (Predictive) Control, Operations Research, Autonomous Systems, Multi-agent Systems

For an overview of current research themes, look here.

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