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

Información del proyecto

AUTOBarge

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 955768

DOI

10.3030/955768

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 28 Mayo 2021

Fecha de inicio 1 Octubre 2021

Fecha de finalización 30 Septiembre 2025

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coste total

€ 4 090 128,48

Aportación de la UE

€ 4 090 128,48

Coordinado por

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Belgium

CORDIS proporciona enlaces a los documentos públicos y las publicaciones de los proyectos de los programas marco HORIZONTE.

Los enlaces a los documentos y las publicaciones de los proyectos del Séptimo Programa Marco, así como los enlaces a algunos tipos de resultados específicos, como conjuntos de datos y «software», se obtienen dinámicamente de OpenAIRE .

Resultado final

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

AUTOBarge Promotion Video
Project website

Other (13)

AUTOBarge NWE1 (Leuven, BE)
Industry-oriented tutorial at the Annual Conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists 2024
AUTOBarge NWE4 (Trondheim, NO)
AUTOBarge NWE6 + Stakeholder Interviewing and Co-Thinking Session (Hamburg, GE)

AUTOBarge NWE6 + Stakeholder Interviewing and Co-Thinking Session (Delft, NL)

15 PhD Degrees awarded
AUTOBarge Kick-Off and Recruitment Event
Workshop at the Autonomous Ship Technology Symposium 2023
Special Session at IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2023
Panel-discussion at IBA Maritime and Transport Law Conference 2024
AUTOBarge NWE3 + Stakeholder Interviewing and Co-Thinking Session (Delft, NL)
AUTOBarge NWE5 (Rouen, FR)
AUTOBarge Network Conference (Bruges, BE)
AUTOBarge NWE2 + Midterm Progress Meeting (Gothenberg, SE)

Documents, reports (14)

Description of fault diagnosis agent prototype system for inland waterway system
Peer-reviewed publication on how the online multi-objective voyage optimization to design and update a ship's sailing route and speed for ship safety and fulfilling the estimated-time-of-arrival

Peer-reviewed publication on how the online multi-objective voyage optimization to design and update a ship’s sailing route and speed for ship safety and fulfilling the estimated-time-of-arrival

Report on live tests of the model predictive control approach on a real inland vessel
Report on explaining how on-line algorithms for hydrodynamic parameter estimation, point cloud data and dynamic ECDIS can be used for navigational purposes
Peer-reviewed publication on the validation in simulation of the decentralized and centralized version of the extended SB-MPC algorithms
Documented generic safety-case structure and reasoning for autonomous inland shipping
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

Policy brief describing recommendations for regulatory innovation allowing for a market-introduction of unmanned/autonomous inland shipping
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 on the potential reduction of fuel consumption and emissions from inland shipping by using VPT for autonomous inland ship navigation
Peer-reviewed publication on the validation of the new digital protocols and standards for collision avoidance and traffic control using simulation and experiments
Report on the application of the freight transport model on a real business case for autonomous inland shipping
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

Publicaciones

Conference proceedings (16)

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

Autores: Zhongbi Luo, Senne van Baelen, Peter Slaets, Herman Bruyninckx
Publicado en: OCEANS 2024 - Halifax, 2024, Página(s) 01-08
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/oceans55160.2024.10754408

Hydrologic Riverbed Generation and Operational Analysis for Autonomous Vessels in Meandering Inland Waterways

Autores: C. Zhang, J. W. Ringsberg and F. Thies
Publicado en: 35th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE), 2025
Editor: International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE)

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

Autores: D. Mahipala, T. A. Johansen
Publicado en: 31st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 2023
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/med59994.2023.10185796

Improved Fusion of AIS Data for Multiple Extended Object Tracking

Autores: Martin Baerveldt, Jiangtao Shuai, Edmund Førland Brekke
Publicado en: 2024 27th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2024, Página(s) 1-8
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/fusion59988.2024.10706459

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

Autores: Steffen Folaasen, Martin Baerveldt, Michael Ernesto López, Nicholas Dalhaug, Annette Stahl, Edmund Brekke
Publicado en: 2025 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2025, Página(s) 1-19
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/aero63441.2025.11068504

Isochrone-Based Collision Avoidance for Enhanced Ship Safety in Confined Waterways

Autores: Yuhan Chen; Chi Zhang; Wengang Mao
Publicado en: The 35th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, 2025, ISSN 1098-6189
Editor: International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE)

Navigating the Waters of Object Detection: Evaluating the Robustness of Real-time Object Detection Models for Autonomous Surface Vehicles

Autores: Yunjia Wang, Kaizheng Wang, Zihao Zhang, Jeroen Boydens, Davy Pissoort, Mathias Verbeke
Publicado en: 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), 2024, Página(s) 985-992
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cai59869.2024.00180

AMLOP: A Framework for the Operational Safety Assurance of Machine Learning Leveraging Model Monitoring

Autores: Yunjia Wang, Laure Buysse, Dries Vanoost, Davy Pissoort, Jeroen Boydens, Mathias Verbeke
Publicado en: 2025 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), 2025, Página(s) 1361-1368
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cai64502.2025.00248

A collision avoidance algorithm with intention prediction for inland waterways ships

Autores: Hoang Anh Tran, Tor Arne Johansen, Rudy R. Negenborn
Publicado en: 22nd IFAC World Congress, 2023
Editor: IFAC
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2618/1/012004

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

Autores: Martin Baerveldt, Edmund FØrland Brekke
Publicado en: 2025 28th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2025, Página(s) 1-8
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/fusion65864.2025.11123938

Manoeuvring Modelling and Control Design of Autonomous Vessels on Inland Waterways

Autores: Chengqian Zhang, Abhishek Dhyani, Jonas W. Ringsberg, Fabian Thies, Vasso Reppa, Rudy R. Negenborn
Publicado en: Volume 5A: Ocean Engineering, 2024
Editor: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/omae2024-126580

Model Identification and Path Following for an Inland Vessel Using IENC Data

Autores: M. AmirReza Haqshenas, Jan Swevers, Peter Slaets
Publicado en: 2024 18th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), 2025, Página(s) 846-851
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icarcv63323.2024.10821672

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

Autores: M. Baerveldt, M. E. Lopez, E. F. Brekke
Publicado en: 2023 26th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2023
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/fusion52260.2023.10224156

Sensitivity of Ship Voyage Optimizations to Various Energy Cost Models

Autores: Yuhan Chen, Wengang Mao
Publicado en: Volume 5A: Ocean Engineering, 2024
Editor: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/omae2024-127986

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

Autores: D. Wang, Y. Zhang, P. Slaets
Publicado en: 9th International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering (ICMRE), Edición 10-12 Feb 2023, 2023, Página(s) 133-138
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icmre56789.2023.10106525

Different strategies to improve isochrone voyage optimization algorithm

Autores: Yuhan Chen, Wengang Mao, Chi Zhang
Publicado en: The 9th International Conference on Marine Structures (MARSTRUCT 2023), 2023, Página(s) p. 53-61
Editor: Taylor & Francis Group
DOI: 10.1201/9781003399759-6

Peer reviewed articles (32)

Autonomous inland shipping: Learning from regulation in air, rail, road and sea transport

Autores: Sophie C. Orzechowski
Publicado en: WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs, 2025, ISSN 1651-436X
Editor: World Maritime University
DOI: 10.1007/s13437-025-00377-6

Asynchronous Distributed Collision Avoidance With Intention Consensus for Inland Autonomous Ships

Autores: Hoang Anh Tran, Nikolai Lauvås, Tor Arne Johansen, Rudy R. Negenborn
Publicado en: IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Edición 33, 2025, Página(s) 2410-2425, ISSN 1063-6536
Editor: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tcst.2025.3587842

Autonomous inland shipping: A contractual perspective in Belgium and the Netherlands

Autores: Camilla Domenighini
Publicado en: Tijdschrift Vervoer & Recht, Edición 6 (2024), 2024, ISSN 1383-8849
Editor: Uitgeverij Paris

Design and Build of an Autonomous Catamaran Urban Cargo Vessel

Autores: Yan-Yun Zhang, Jiangtao Shuai, Jef Billet, Peter Slaets
Publicado en: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Edición 2618, 2023, Página(s) 012002, ISSN 1742-6588
Editor: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2618/1/012002

A POMDP model-based online risk mitigation method for autonomous inland vessels

Autores: Abhishek Dhyani, Yunjia Wang, Mathias Verbeke, Davy Pissoort, Vasso Reppa
Publicado en: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Edición 58, 2024, Página(s) 335-340, ISSN 2405-8963
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.10.076

Learning-based Pareto-optimum routing of ships incorporating uncertain meteorological and oceanographic forecasts

Autores: Yuhan Guo, Yiyang Wang, Yuhan Chen, Lingxiao Wu, Wengang Mao
Publicado en: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Edición 192, 2024, Página(s) 103786, ISSN 1366-5545
Editor: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2024.103786

Design and validation of an intention-aware probabilistic framework for trajectory prediction: Integrating COLREGS, grounding hazards, and planned routes

Autores: Dhanika Mahipala, Trym Tengesdal, Børge Rokseth, Tor Arne Johansen
Publicado en: Ocean Engineering, Edición 335, 2025, Página(s) 121564, ISSN 0029-8018
Editor: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.121564

A collision avoidance algorithm with intention prediction for inland waterways ships

Autores: Hoang Anh Tran, Tor Arne Johansen, Rudy R. Negenborn
Publicado en: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Edición 56, 2024, Página(s) 4337-4343, ISSN 2405-8963
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.1805

The shift toward autonomous European inland waterway shipping: Identifying the gaps in the emerging socio-technical system

Autores: R Saha, M Lundh, S N MacKinnon
Publicado en: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Edición 2618, 2023, Página(s) 012016, ISSN 1742-6588
Editor: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2618/1/012016

Identifying innovation factors and actors in autonomous inland shipping: a literature review

Autores: Dhaneswara Al Amien
Publicado en: Journal of Shipping and Trade, Edición 9, 2024, ISSN 2364-4575
Editor: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s41072-024-00189-6

A systematic literature review of factors influencing the regulation of autonomous inland shipping in Europe

Autores: Sophie C. Orzechowski, Wouter Verheyen, Christa Sys
Publicado en: European Transport Research Review, Edición 16, 2024, ISSN 1866-8887
Editor: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s12544-024-00678-6

State-of-the-art optimization algorithms in weather routing — ship decision support systems: challenge, taxonomy, and review

Autores: Yuhan Chen, Chi Zhang, Yuhan Guo, Yiyang Wang, Xiao Lang, Mingyang Zhang, Wengang Mao
Publicado en: Ocean Engineering, Edición 331, 2025, Página(s) 121198, ISSN 0029-8018
Editor: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.121198

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

Autores: M. Baerveldt, M. E. Lopez, E. F. Brekke
Publicado en: Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, Edición Vol. 19 Edición 2., 2024, Página(s) 88-108, ISSN 1557-6418
Editor: Information Society of Information Fusion

An Isochrone-Based Predictive Optimization for Efficient Ship Voyage Planning and Execution

Autores: Yuhan Chen, Wengang Mao
Publicado en: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Edición 25, 2024, Página(s) 18078-18092, ISSN 1524-9050
Editor: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tits.2024.3416349

Parallel distributed collision avoidance with intention consensus based on ADMM

Autores: Hoang Anh Tran, Tor Arne Johansen, Rudy R. Negenborn
Publicado en: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Edición 58, 2024, Página(s) 302-309, ISSN 2405-8963
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.07.357

Motion Constrained Point Cloud Matching for Maritime Tracking

Autores: Nicholas Dalhaug, Martin Baerveldt, Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Annette Stahl, Rudolf Mester, Edmund Førland Brekke
Publicado en: IEEE Access, Edición 13, 2025, Página(s) 111354-111371, ISSN 2169-3536
Editor: 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’?

Autores: Camilla Domenighini
Publicado en: Il diritto marittimo, 2022, Página(s) 752-784, ISSN 0012-348X
Editor: Il diritto marittimo

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

Autores: C.Zhang, J.W. Ringsberg, F. Thies
Publicado en: Ocean Engineering, Edición Vol. 287, 2023, ISSN 0029-8018
Editor: 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

Autores: Audun G. Hem, Martin Baerveldt, Edmund F. Brekke
Publicado en: IEEE Access, Edición 12, 2024, Página(s) 55404-55423, ISSN 2169-3536
Editor: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2024.3389824

Autonomous inland navigation: a literature review and extracontractual liability issues

Autores: Camilla Domenighini
Publicado en: Journal of Shipping and Trade, Edición 9, 2024, ISSN 2364-4575
Editor: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s41072-024-00171-2

Strategies to improve the isochrone algorithm for ship voyage optimisation

Autores: Yuhan Chen, Wuliu Tian, Wengang Mao
Publicado en: Ships and Offshore Structures, Edición 19, 2024, Página(s) 2137-2149, ISSN 1744-5302
Editor: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17445302.2024.2329011

Predicting inland waterway freight demand with a dynamic spatio-temporal graph attention-based multi attention network

Autores: Lingyu Zhang, Oliver Schacht, Qing Liu, Adolf K.Y. Ng
Publicado en: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Edición 199, 2025, Página(s) 104139, ISSN 1366-5545
Editor: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2025.104139

A Multiple Sensor Fault Diagnosis Scheme for Autonomous Surface Vessels

Autores: Abhishek Dhyani, Rudy R. Negenborn, Vasso Reppa
Publicado en: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Edición 58, 2025, Página(s) 31-36, ISSN 2405-8963
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.07.189

Regulatory scoping exercise for the future adoption of autonomous inland ships in Europe

Autores: Sophie C. Orzechowski
Publicado en: Journal of Shipping and Trade, Edición 9, 2024, ISSN 2364-4575
Editor: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s41072-023-00160-x

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

Autores: Martin Baerveldt, Audun Gullikstad Hem, Edmund Førland Brekke
Publicado en: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Edición 2618, 2023, Página(s) 012011, ISSN 1742-6588
Editor: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2618/1/012011

Nonlinear model predictive control for path following of autonomous inland vessels in confined waterways

Autores: Chengqian Zhang, Abhishek Dhyani, Jonas W. Ringsberg, Fabian Thies, Rudy R. Negenborn, Vasso Reppa
Publicado en: Ocean Engineering, Edición 334, 2025, Página(s) 121592, ISSN 0029-8018
Editor: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.121592

Towards autonomous inland shipping: a manoeuvring model in confined waterways

Autores: Chengqian Zhang, Yucong Ma, Fabian Thies, Jonas W. Ringsberg, Yihan Xing
Publicado en: Ships and Offshore Structures, Edición 20, 2025, Página(s) 767-779, ISSN 1744-5302
Editor: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17445302.2024.2358284

A voyage planning framework for energy performance analysis of autonomous inland waterway vessels

Autores: Chengqian Zhang, Chi Zhang, Fabian Thies, Wengang Mao, Jonas W. Ringsberg
Publicado en: Energy, Edición 335, 2025, Página(s) 137906, ISSN 0360-5442
Editor: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2025.137906

AUTOBargeSim: MATLAB® toolbox for the design and analysis of the guidance and control system for autonomous inland vessels

Autores: Abhishek Dhyani, Amirreza Haqshenas Mojaveri, Chengqian Zhang, Dhanika Mahipala, Hoang Anh Tran, Yan-Yun Zhang, Zhongbi Luo, Vasso Reppa
Publicado en: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Edición 59, 2025, Página(s) 818-823, ISSN 2405-8963
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2025.11.736

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

Autores: Yan-Yun Zhang, Jef Billet, Peter Slaets
Publicado en: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Edición 58, 2024, Página(s) 229-234, ISSN 2405-8963
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.10.059

Navigating environmental sustainability in inland waterway transport: emission challenges and solutions

Autores: Lingyu Zhang, Qing Liu, Terje A. Mathisen, Ying-En Ge
Publicado en: Maritime Policy & Management, 2025, Página(s) 1-25, ISSN 0308-8839
Editor: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2025.2523589

Enhancing the dependability of autonomous surface vehicles through robustness benchmarking of real-time object detection models

Autores: Yunjia Wang, Zihao Zhang, Kaizheng Wang, Holger Caesar, Jeroen Boydens, Davy Pissoort, Mathias Verbeke
Publicado en: Expert Systems with Applications, Edición 296, 2025, Página(s) 129151, ISSN 0957-4174
Editor: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2025.129151

Book chapters (1)

Legal aspects related to circular shipbuilding and sustainable business model in autonomous inland vessel operations

Autores: Camilla Domenighini
Publicado en: Towards a Zero-Emissions and Digitalized Transport Sector, 2025, Página(s) 167-192, ISBN 2147483647
Editor: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781035321469.00016