Rudy Negenborn Full Professor, Head of Section Main Publications Team & Themes Education Resume

Research theme: 4S -- Intelligent multi-agent control for flexible coordination in smart shipping and logistics          Global transport flows are becoming more large-scale and complex. The volume of materials and goods being transported on a daily basis over roads, waterways, tracks and through the air keeps increasing. As this volume increases, different parts of the global transport infrastructure become more dynamically coupled. Events such as unexpected weather conditions, strikes, traffic congestion, etc. therefore give rise to disturbances that affect larger parts of the total transport infrastructure. Therefore, these systems reach the limits of their capacity more frequently, causing more delays, higher costs, and extra emissions. At the same time, however, society makes more stringent demands on the system's performance: delays must be shorter, costs must be lower, and emissions must be reduced. Today, control of the global transport network is done in a very decentralized way, in which actions that influence transport flows are determined at local transport hubs using information from only a relatively small part of the complete system. To meet society's requirements, a new control methodology has to be developed that maximizes the use of the flexibility in the entire transport system by using much more overall information. We are working on developing the 4S Framework, a distributed and scalable control methodology for efficiently improving the real-time operation of large-scale transport systems. Related projects   2023 - ongoing Path2Zero: PAving THe way towards Zero-Emission and RObust inland shipping NWO National Science Agenda 2023 - ongoing SEAMLESS: Safe, Efficient and Autonomous: Multimodal Library of European Shortsea and inland Solutions HORIZON EUROPE CL5-2022-D5-01-15 2022 - ongoing DT4GS: Open Collaboration & Digital Twin Infrastructure for Green Smart Shipping HORIZON EUROPE CL5-2021-D5-01-13 2021 - ongoing SH2IPDRIVE Subsidieregeling R&D Mobiliteitssectoren (RDM) 2021 - ongoing MENENS Subsidieregeling R&D Mobiliteitssectoren (RDM) 2021 - ongoing AutoBarge: Autonomous Barges for Smart Inland Shipping H2020 European Training and Research Network 2021 - ongoing FAST: Fieldlab Autonomous Sailing Technology REACT-EU Op-Zuid Grant 2021 NAVIS: Nederlandse Autonome Veerponten -- Innovatie Stappenplan Maritime Innovation Impulse Project (MIIP) Grant 2020 - ongoing NOVIMOVE: Novel inland waterway transport concepts for moving freight effectively H2020-MG-2-6-2019 - "Moving freight by Water: Sustainable Infrastructure and Innovative Vessels" Grant 2020 - ongoing TRiLOGy: Sustainable Transportation and Logistics over Water: Electrification, Automation and Optimization NWO Top Sector Water & Maritime: the Blue Route Grant 2020 - ongoing READINESS: Robust, effective and adaptable ship designs for uncertain transition paths NWO Top Sector Water & Maritime: the Blue Route Grant 2020 - ongoing AVATAR: Sustainable urban freight transport with autonomous zero-emission vessels INTERREG North Sea Region Grant 2020 NoMES: Novel and Minimized Emissons Shipping Maritime Innovation Impulse Project (MIIP) Grant 2019 - ongoing Versnellingsfabriek Introductie Zelfvarende Systemen Provincie Zuid-Holland Grant 2019 - ongoing ISHY: Implementation of Ship Hybridisation Interreg 2 Seas Grant 2018 - 2020 Impulse Autonomous Shipping for Amsterdam Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions Grant 2017 - 2020 Space@Sea: Transport & Logistics H2020-EU.3.2.5 - "Cross-cutting marine and maritime research" Grant 2017 TET-SP: Autonomous shipping in the Port of Rotterdam SmartPort 2017 Grant 2017 - 2022 COMET-PS: Complexity Methods for Predictive Synchromodality NWO Social & Physical Sciences Grant 2016 2017 - 2019 Formations of Waterborne Structures TU Delft / 3mE Cohesion Grant 2017 2016 - 2017 AIDA: Automatic Identification of Research Trends TU Delft Research Innovation Grant 2015 2016 - 2022 i-CAVE: Dynamic fleet management of autonomous vehicles for logistical transport services STW Perspectief voor de Topsectoren 2015 Program 2015 - 2022 GasDrive - Minimizing emissions and energy losses at sea with LNG combined prime movers, underwater exhausts and nano hull materials STW Maritime 2015/Topsector Water Program Current PhD candidates   2024/09 - ongoing     Smart planning and control for reconfigurable value chains       Nandini Suresh with dr. Alessia Napoleone 2024/06 - ongoing     Health-aware energy management for fuel cell hybrid electric ships       Sofia Mendoza with dr. Andrea Coraddu 2024/05 - ongoing     Hydrogen-based vessels data analysis and analytics for control and condition monitoring       Ege Ceyhun with dr. Andrea Coraddu 2023/10 - ongoing     Decision support systems for sustainable and reconfigurable manufacturing systems       Rafael Leite Patrao with dr. Alessia Napoleone 2023/09 - ongoing     Maintenance-aware multi-level control for ammonia-powered ships       Andrea Caspani with dr. Vasso Reppa 2023/02 - ongoing     Model Predictive Control of Marine Solid Oxide Fuel Cells       Matthis de Lange with dr. Lindert van Biert 2023/02 - ongoing     Optimal Navigation and Guidance of Inland Waterway Vessels       Simeon Slagter with dr. Yusong Pang 2022/11 - ongoing     Operations & Maintenance Optimization of Offshore Wind Farms       Marco Borsotti with dr. Xiaoli Jiang 2022/09 - ongoing     Cooperative Control for Waterborne Transport Systems       Xin Xiong with dr. Yusong Pang 2022/05 - ongoing     Fault Diagnosis for Safe Control and Coordination of Inland Waterway Systems       Abhishek Dhyani with dr. Vasso Reppa 2022/10 - ongoing     Towards Net-Zero Emission Port Operations       Xinyu Tang with dr. Frederik Schulte 2022/04 - ongoing     Collaborative Collision Avoidance for Ships in Inland Waterways       Hoang Anh Tran with prof. Tor Arne Johansen NTNU, Norway 2021/09 - ongoing     Knowledge-based Collision Avoidance with Human-Computer Cooperation       Rongxin Song with prof. Pieter van Gelder dr. Eleonora Papadimitriou 2020/10 - ongoing     Dynamic and Stochastic Fleet Management Models for Transportation and Logistics       Cigdem Karademir with dr. Bilge Atasoy 2020/12 - ongoing     Safe Cooperation of Autonomous Vehicles in Mixed Traffic       Tasos Tsolakis with dr. Vasso Reppa, dr. Laura Ferranti