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Research theme: Intelligent
multi-agent control for flexible coordination of transport
hubs |
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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 such a
distributed and scalable control
methodology for efficiently improving the real-time
operation of large-scale transport systems.
Related projects
| 2011/01 - ongoing | | Intelligent
multi-agent control for flexible coordination of transport
hubs | | 2010 Innovational Research Incentives VENI Scheme of the
Dutch
Technology
Foundation STW.
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| 2011/11 - ongoing | | DUBROVNIK
-- Towards improved hinterland accessibility for the
Port of Rotterdam | | Next Generation Port Infra
Grant --
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| 2011/12 -
ongoing | | Multi-level and multi-agent
control of intelligent
infrastructures | | Le Li, PhD
project |
| 2011/09 -
ongoing | | Intelligent
control
for optimizing the operation of automated container
terminals | | Jianbin
Xin, PhD
project |
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| 2012 | | Coordinating
vessels for delay minimization | | Jelmer Hengeveld, MSc
graduation project |
| 2011 | | Revenue
forecasting at KLM | | Merijn van
Aartrijk, MSc
graduation project |
| 2011 | | Modeling of
operational processes at intermodal container
terminals | | Yunsong Yan, MSc
graduation project |
| 2011 | | Improving
the distribution network of libraries in The
Netherlands | | Nick van der Noorda, MSc
graduation project |
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| 2012 | | Distributed
control for coordination of operations in large harbors
| | Herbert Schroer,
MSc
literature project |
| 2011 | | Guaranteed accessibility of
the Port of Rotterdam and its
hinterland | | Jasper Pijnenborg, MSc
literature project |
| 2011 | | A new operational model for
cooperation in harbor networks | | Jelmer
Hengeveld, MSc research project |
| 2011 | | Evaluation of storage yard
controller strategies for maritime container
terminals
| | Robbert
van
Zijverden, MSc research project
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| 2011 | | Dynamical effects
and interaction between freight transport navigation and water
infrastructure | | Jelmer
Hengeveld, MSc
literature project |
| 2011 | | Realistic container
terminal modeling | | Willem Maagdenburg, MSc
research project |
| 2011 | | Improving dynamic
container fleet management | | Bart Cunes, MSc
research project |
| 2011 | | Classification
of approaches for
the integrated modeling and
control of freight transport
across different modes at
maritime container terminals | | Robbert
van
Zijverden, MSc
literature project |
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Research theme: Intelligent control methods for flood and water management |
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Experts
predict that
climate change will cause
extreme
events
such as floods
and droughts to occur more frequently and more severely in the future. Against
this background, effective water management will become increasingly important.
Water management is currently decentralised, with each water board managing a
regional area with its own water bodies and waterways. However, the effects of
water management are felt beyond these regional areas borders-- even beyond
country borders. Effective coordination is vital. In this theme techniques
enabling this have been developed.
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Research theme: Multi-agent coordination and intelligent
control of energy infrastructure networks |
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Due to the liberalisation of the electricity sector, the number of players
involved in the generation and distribution of electricity has increased
significantly. In the near future the number of input nodes will even further
increase as more small-scale solar and wind energy installations will start to
feed electricity into the network. Coordination among the growing number of
different suppliers and distributors needs to be efficient to ensure a reliable
and smooth energy supply. In this theme such coordination techniques have been
developed.
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Research theme: Control and estimation for mobile robotics |
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Related projects
| 2005 | | Control of groups of
robots | |
Rogier den Breeje and Jos de Jong, BSc graduation
project |
| 2005 | | Learning control for
an inverted
pendulum using reinforcement learning | |
Arjan Degenaar and Daan Mastenbroek, BSc graduation project |
| 2005 | | Communication and
Cooperation in Multi-Agent Systems for Robot Soccer | |
Alex Verbart, Menno Ronde, Thomas Poiesz, Stefan Taal, BSc graduation
project |
| 2002 - 2003 | | Robot Localization and Kalman
Filters | | MSc
graduation project |
| 2002 - 2003 | | Reinforcement
Learning with Robots | | MSc research project |
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