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

Project Information

AUTOBarge

Grant agreement ID: 955768

DOI

10.3030/955768

Project closed

EC signature date 28 May 2021

Start date 1 October 2021

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 4 090 128,48

EU contribution

€ 4 090 128,48

Coordinated by

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Belgium

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

AUTOBarge Promotion Video
Project website

Other (6)

AUTOBarge NWE1 (Leuven, BE)
AUTOBarge NWE4 (Trondheim, NO)
AUTOBarge Kick-Off and Recruitment Event
Workshop at the Autonomous Ship Technology Symposium 2023
AUTOBarge NWE3 + Stakeholder Interviewing and Co-Thinking Session (Delft, NL)
AUTOBarge NWE2 + Midterm Progress Meeting (Gothenberg, SE)

Documents, reports (5)

Description of fault diagnosis agent prototype system for inland waterway system
Description of the Artificial Intelligence/Human-Automation Interactions model for data collection, processing and distribution

Description of the Artificial IntelligenceHumanAutomation Interactions model for data collection processing and distribution

Report on the specification of models for measurements of objects using relevant sensors (lidar, cameras, radar) along with specification of kinematical models for the moving objects to be used by the tracking methods
Report of the impact assessment of autonomous inland shipping on the current legal framework
Report on the definition of the theoretical Agent-Based Modelling approach

Report on the definition of the theoretical AgentBased Modelling approach

Publications

Conference proceedings (9)

Enhancing Inland Waterway Transport Through LiDAR-Based Updates to Electronic Navigational Charts

Author(s): Zhongbi Luo, Senne van Baelen, Peter Slaets, Herman Bruyninckx
Published in: OCEANS 2024 - Halifax, 2024, Page(s) 01-08
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/oceans55160.2024.10754408

Model Predictive Control for Path Following and Collision-Avoidance of Autonomous Ships in Inland Waterways

Author(s): D. Mahipala, T. A. Johansen
Published in: 31st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/med59994.2023.10185796

Improved Fusion of AIS Data for Multiple Extended Object Tracking

Author(s): Martin Baerveldt, Jiangtao Shuai, Edmund Førland Brekke
Published in: 2024 27th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2024, Page(s) 1-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/fusion59988.2024.10706459

Extended Object Tracking Using a Gaussian Process Extent Model and Scene Flow-LiDAR Fusion

Author(s): Steffen Folaasen, Martin Baerveldt, Michael Ernesto López, Nicholas Dalhaug, Annette Stahl, Edmund Brekke
Published in: 2025 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2025, Page(s) 1-19
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/aero63441.2025.11068504

A collision avoidance algorithm with intention prediction for inland waterways ships

Author(s): Hoang Anh Tran, Tor Arne Johansen, Rudy R. Negenborn
Published in: 22nd IFAC World Congress, 2023
Publisher: IFAC
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2618/1/012004

Methods to Handle Interior and Boundary Measurements for the Gaussian Process Model

Author(s): Martin Baerveldt, Edmund FØrland Brekke
Published in: 2025 28th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2025, Page(s) 1-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/fusion65864.2025.11123938

Extended target PMBM tracker with a Gaussian Process target model on LiDAR data

Author(s): M. Baerveldt, M. E. Lopez, E. F. Brekke
Published in: 2023 26th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/fusion52260.2023.10224156

A Retrofitted Dynamic Window Approach with Pivot Point Control for Maneuvering Inland Vessels on Constrained Surfaces

Author(s): D. Wang, Y. Zhang, P. Slaets
Published in: 9th International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering (ICMRE), Issue 10-12 Feb 2023, 2023, Page(s) 133-138
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icmre56789.2023.10106525

Different strategies to improve isochrone voyage optimization algorithm

Author(s): Yuhan Chen, Wengang Mao, Chi Zhang
Published in: The 9th International Conference on Marine Structures (MARSTRUCT 2023), 2023, Page(s) p. 53-61
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
DOI: 10.1201/9781003399759-6

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Asynchronous Distributed Collision Avoidance With Intention Consensus for Inland Autonomous Ships

Author(s): Hoang Anh Tran, Nikolai Lauvås, Tor Arne Johansen, Rudy R. Negenborn
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Issue 33, 2025, Page(s) 2410-2425, ISSN 1063-6536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tcst.2025.3587842

Design and Build of an Autonomous Catamaran Urban Cargo Vessel

Author(s): Yan-Yun Zhang, Jiangtao Shuai, Jef Billet, Peter Slaets
Published in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Issue 2618, 2023, Page(s) 012002, ISSN 1742-6588
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2618/1/012002

A collision avoidance algorithm with intention prediction for inland waterways ships

Author(s): Hoang Anh Tran, Tor Arne Johansen, Rudy R. Negenborn
Published in: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Issue 56, 2024, Page(s) 4337-4343, ISSN 2405-8963
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.1805

A Multiple Extended Object Tracker with the Gaussian Process Model Utilizing Negative Information

Author(s): M. Baerveldt, M. E. Lopez, E. F. Brekke
Published in: Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, Issue Vol. 19 Issue 2., 2024, Page(s) 88-108, ISSN 1557-6418
Publisher: Information Society of Information Fusion

Parallel distributed collision avoidance with intention consensus based on ADMM

Author(s): Hoang Anh Tran, Tor Arne Johansen, Rudy R. Negenborn
Published in: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Issue 58, 2024, Page(s) 302-309, ISSN 2405-8963
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.07.357

Motion Constrained Point Cloud Matching for Maritime Tracking

Author(s): Nicholas Dalhaug, Martin Baerveldt, Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Annette Stahl, Rudolf Mester, Edmund Førland Brekke
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 13, 2025, Page(s) 111354-111371, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2025.3582327

Autonomous inland shipping : will the barge owner be stuck ‘between the devil and the deep blue sea’?

Author(s): Camilla Domenighini
Published in: Il diritto marittimo, 2022, Page(s) 752-784, ISSN 0012-348X
Publisher: Il diritto marittimo

Development of a ship performance model for power estimation of inland waterway vessels

Author(s): C.Zhang, J.W. Ringsberg, F. Thies
Published in: Ocean Engineering, Issue Vol. 287, 2023, ISSN 0029-8018
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.115731

PMBM Filtering With Fusion of Target-Provided and Exteroceptive Measurements: Applications to Maritime Point and Extended Object Tracking

Author(s): Audun G. Hem, Martin Baerveldt, Edmund F. Brekke
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 55404-55423, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2024.3389824

Comparing Multiple Extended Object Tracking with Point Based Multi Object Tracking for LiDAR in a Maritime Context

Author(s): Martin Baerveldt, Audun Gullikstad Hem, Edmund Førland Brekke
Published in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Issue 2618, 2023, Page(s) 012011, ISSN 1742-6588
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2618/1/012011

Experimental Identification of Decoupled Ship Dynamic Models for an Autonomous Catamaran Urban Cargo Vessel

Author(s): Yan-Yun Zhang, Jef Billet, Peter Slaets
Published in: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Issue 58, 2024, Page(s) 229-234, ISSN 2405-8963
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.10.059