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

Informations projet

AUTOBarge

N° de convention de subvention: 955768

DOI

10.3030/955768

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 28 Mai 2021

Date de début 1 Octobre 2021

Date de fin 30 Septembre 2025

Financé au titre de

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coût total

€ 4 090 128,48

Contribution de l’UE

€ 4 090 128,48

Coordonné par

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Belgium

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Livrables

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 (14)

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

Auteurs: Zhongbi Luo, Senne van Baelen, Peter Slaets, Herman Bruyninckx
Publié dans: OCEANS 2024 - Halifax, 2024, Page(s) 01-08
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/oceans55160.2024.10754408

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

Auteurs: C. Zhang, J. W. Ringsberg and F. Thies
Publié dans: 35th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE), 2025
Éditeur: International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE)

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

Auteurs: D. Mahipala, T. A. Johansen
Publié dans: 31st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 2023
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/med59994.2023.10185796

Improved Fusion of AIS Data for Multiple Extended Object Tracking

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

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

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

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

Auteurs: Yunjia Wang, Kaizheng Wang, Zihao Zhang, Jeroen Boydens, Davy Pissoort, Mathias Verbeke
Publié dans: 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), 2024, Page(s) 985-992
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cai59869.2024.00180

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

Auteurs: Yunjia Wang, Laure Buysse, Dries Vanoost, Davy Pissoort, Jeroen Boydens, Mathias Verbeke
Publié dans: 2025 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), 2025, Page(s) 1361-1368
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cai64502.2025.00248

A collision avoidance algorithm with intention prediction for inland waterways ships

Auteurs: Hoang Anh Tran, Tor Arne Johansen, Rudy R. Negenborn
Publié dans: 22nd IFAC World Congress, 2023
Éditeur: IFAC
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2618/1/012004

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

Auteurs: Martin Baerveldt, Edmund FØrland Brekke
Publié dans: 2025 28th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2025, Page(s) 1-8
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/fusion65864.2025.11123938

Manoeuvring Modelling and Control Design of Autonomous Vessels on Inland Waterways

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

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

Auteurs: M. Baerveldt, M. E. Lopez, E. F. Brekke
Publié dans: 2023 26th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2023
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/fusion52260.2023.10224156

Sensitivity of Ship Voyage Optimizations to Various Energy Cost Models

Auteurs: Yuhan Chen, Wengang Mao
Publié dans: Volume 5A: Ocean Engineering, 2024
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: D. Wang, Y. Zhang, P. Slaets
Publié dans: 9th International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering (ICMRE), Numéro 10-12 Feb 2023, 2023, Page(s) 133-138
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icmre56789.2023.10106525

Different strategies to improve isochrone voyage optimization algorithm

Auteurs: Yuhan Chen, Wengang Mao, Chi Zhang
Publié dans: The 9th International Conference on Marine Structures (MARSTRUCT 2023), 2023, Page(s) p. 53-61
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Sophie C. Orzechowski
Publié dans: WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs, 2025, ISSN 1651-436X
Éditeur: World Maritime University
DOI: 10.1007/s13437-025-00377-6

Asynchronous Distributed Collision Avoidance With Intention Consensus for Inland Autonomous Ships

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

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

Auteurs: Camilla Domenighini
Publié dans: Tijdschrift Vervoer & Recht, Numéro 6 (2024), 2024, ISSN 1383-8849
Éditeur: Uitgeverij Paris

Design and Build of an Autonomous Catamaran Urban Cargo Vessel

Auteurs: Yan-Yun Zhang, Jiangtao Shuai, Jef Billet, Peter Slaets
Publié dans: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Numéro 2618, 2023, Page(s) 012002, ISSN 1742-6588
Éditeur: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2618/1/012002

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

Auteurs: Abhishek Dhyani, Yunjia Wang, Mathias Verbeke, Davy Pissoort, Vasso Reppa
Publié dans: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Numéro 58, 2024, Page(s) 335-340, ISSN 2405-8963
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.10.076

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

Auteurs: Yuhan Guo, Yiyang Wang, Yuhan Chen, Lingxiao Wu, Wengang Mao
Publié dans: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Numéro 192, 2024, Page(s) 103786, ISSN 1366-5545
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Dhanika Mahipala, Trym Tengesdal, Børge Rokseth, Tor Arne Johansen
Publié dans: Ocean Engineering, Numéro 335, 2025, Page(s) 121564, ISSN 0029-8018
Éditeur: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.121564

A collision avoidance algorithm with intention prediction for inland waterways ships

Auteurs: Hoang Anh Tran, Tor Arne Johansen, Rudy R. Negenborn
Publié dans: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Numéro 56, 2024, Page(s) 4337-4343, ISSN 2405-8963
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: R Saha, M Lundh, S N MacKinnon
Publié dans: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Numéro 2618, 2023, Page(s) 012016, ISSN 1742-6588
Éditeur: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2618/1/012016

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

Auteurs: Dhaneswara Al Amien
Publié dans: Journal of Shipping and Trade, Numéro 9, 2024, ISSN 2364-4575
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Sophie C. Orzechowski, Wouter Verheyen, Christa Sys
Publié dans: European Transport Research Review, Numéro 16, 2024, ISSN 1866-8887
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Yuhan Chen, Chi Zhang, Yuhan Guo, Yiyang Wang, Xiao Lang, Mingyang Zhang, Wengang Mao
Publié dans: Ocean Engineering, Numéro 331, 2025, Page(s) 121198, ISSN 0029-8018
Éditeur: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.121198

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

Auteurs: M. Baerveldt, M. E. Lopez, E. F. Brekke
Publié dans: Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, Numéro Vol. 19 Numéro 2., 2024, Page(s) 88-108, ISSN 1557-6418
Éditeur: Information Society of Information Fusion

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

Auteurs: Yuhan Chen, Wengang Mao
Publié dans: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Numéro 25, 2024, Page(s) 18078-18092, ISSN 1524-9050
Éditeur: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tits.2024.3416349

Parallel distributed collision avoidance with intention consensus based on ADMM

Auteurs: Hoang Anh Tran, Tor Arne Johansen, Rudy R. Negenborn
Publié dans: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Numéro 58, 2024, Page(s) 302-309, ISSN 2405-8963
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.07.357

Motion Constrained Point Cloud Matching for Maritime Tracking

Auteurs: Nicholas Dalhaug, Martin Baerveldt, Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Annette Stahl, Rudolf Mester, Edmund Førland Brekke
Publié dans: IEEE Access, Numéro 13, 2025, Page(s) 111354-111371, ISSN 2169-3536
Éditeur: 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’?

Auteurs: Camilla Domenighini
Publié dans: Il diritto marittimo, 2022, Page(s) 752-784, ISSN 0012-348X
Éditeur: Il diritto marittimo

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

Auteurs: C.Zhang, J.W. Ringsberg, F. Thies
Publié dans: Ocean Engineering, Numéro Vol. 287, 2023, ISSN 0029-8018
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Audun G. Hem, Martin Baerveldt, Edmund F. Brekke
Publié dans: IEEE Access, Numéro 12, 2024, Page(s) 55404-55423, ISSN 2169-3536
Éditeur: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2024.3389824

Autonomous inland navigation: a literature review and extracontractual liability issues

Auteurs: Camilla Domenighini
Publié dans: Journal of Shipping and Trade, Numéro 9, 2024, ISSN 2364-4575
Éditeur: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/s41072-024-00171-2

Strategies to improve the isochrone algorithm for ship voyage optimisation

Auteurs: Yuhan Chen, Wuliu Tian, Wengang Mao
Publié dans: Ships and Offshore Structures, Numéro 19, 2024, Page(s) 2137-2149, ISSN 1744-5302
Éditeur: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17445302.2024.2329011

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

Auteurs: Lingyu Zhang, Oliver Schacht, Qing Liu, Adolf K.Y. Ng
Publié dans: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Numéro 199, 2025, Page(s) 104139, ISSN 1366-5545
Éditeur: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2025.104139

A Multiple Sensor Fault Diagnosis Scheme for Autonomous Surface Vessels

Auteurs: Abhishek Dhyani, Rudy R. Negenborn, Vasso Reppa
Publié dans: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Numéro 58, 2025, Page(s) 31-36, ISSN 2405-8963
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.07.189

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

Auteurs: Sophie C. Orzechowski
Publié dans: Journal of Shipping and Trade, Numéro 9, 2024, ISSN 2364-4575
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Martin Baerveldt, Audun Gullikstad Hem, Edmund Førland Brekke
Publié dans: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Numéro 2618, 2023, Page(s) 012011, ISSN 1742-6588
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Chengqian Zhang, Abhishek Dhyani, Jonas W. Ringsberg, Fabian Thies, Rudy R. Negenborn, Vasso Reppa
Publié dans: Ocean Engineering, Numéro 334, 2025, Page(s) 121592, ISSN 0029-8018
Éditeur: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.121592

Towards autonomous inland shipping: a manoeuvring model in confined waterways

Auteurs: Chengqian Zhang, Yucong Ma, Fabian Thies, Jonas W. Ringsberg, Yihan Xing
Publié dans: Ships and Offshore Structures, Numéro 20, 2025, Page(s) 767-779, ISSN 1744-5302
Éditeur: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17445302.2024.2358284

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

Auteurs: Chengqian Zhang, Chi Zhang, Fabian Thies, Wengang Mao, Jonas W. Ringsberg
Publié dans: Energy, Numéro 335, 2025, Page(s) 137906, ISSN 0360-5442
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Abhishek Dhyani, Amirreza Haqshenas Mojaveri, Chengqian Zhang, Dhanika Mahipala, Hoang Anh Tran, Yan-Yun Zhang, Zhongbi Luo, Vasso Reppa
Publié dans: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Numéro 59, 2025, Page(s) 818-823, ISSN 2405-8963
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2025.11.736

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

Auteurs: Yan-Yun Zhang, Jef Billet, Peter Slaets
Publié dans: IFAC-PapersOnLine, Numéro 58, 2024, Page(s) 229-234, ISSN 2405-8963
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.10.059

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

Auteurs: Lingyu Zhang, Qing Liu, Terje A. Mathisen, Ying-En Ge
Publié dans: Maritime Policy & Management, 2025, Page(s) 1-25, ISSN 0308-8839
Éditeur: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2025.2523589

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

Auteurs: Yunjia Wang, Zihao Zhang, Kaizheng Wang, Holger Caesar, Jeroen Boydens, Davy Pissoort, Mathias Verbeke
Publié dans: Expert Systems with Applications, Numéro 296, 2025, Page(s) 129151, ISSN 0957-4174
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Camilla Domenighini
Publié dans: Towards a Zero-Emissions and Digitalized Transport Sector, 2025, Page(s) 167-192, ISBN 2147483647
Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing
DOI: 10.4337/9781035321469.00016