Rudy R. Negenborn       Rudy Negenborn
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Publications: All, in pictures, or by area of interest:
   
multi-agent systems, model predictive control, hybrid systems
multi-vessel systems, sustainability, synchromodality

logistics, intermodal transport, container transport
transport over water, control of ships

transportation networks, inter-terminal transport
water networks, power networks, gas networks

Category: Multi-vessel systems
   
48.A multiple sensor fault diagnosis scheme for autonomous surface vessels. A. Dhyani, R.R. Negenborn, V. Reppa. Accepted for the 12th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes (IFAC SAFEPROCESS 2024), Ferrara, Italy, June 2024.   
47.Trickle-down strategies: Integrating simulations with control loops of autonomous vessels on lab scale. F. Baart, M. van Gijn, B. Boogmans, M. Zagonjoli, R. Zuidwijk, R.R. Negenborn, M. van Koningsveld. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2618 (ICMASS'23), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, November 2023. Open access.   
46.Collision avoidance of autonomous ships in inland waterways – A survey and open research problems. H. Anh Tran, T.A. Johansen, R.R. Negenborn. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2618 (ICMASS'23), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, November 2023. Open access.   
45.Distributed situational awareness for maritime autonomous surface ships in mixed waterborne transport: An ontology-based framework. R. Song, E. Papadimitriou, R.R. Negenborn, P.H.A.J.M. van Gelder. Accepted for the 7th International Conference on Transportation Information and Safety (ICTIS'23), Xi'an, China, August 2023.   
44.Follow-the-leader guidance, navigation and control of surface vessels: Design and experiments. B. Piaggio, V. Garofano, S. Donnarumma, A. Alessandri, R.R. Negenborn, M. Martelli. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 997-1008, October 2023.   
43.Multi-objective cooperative control for a ship-towing system in congested water traffic environments. Z. Du, R.R. Negenborn, V. Reppa. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 24318-24329, December 2022.   
42.COLREGS-Compliant collision avoidance for physically coupled multi-vessel systems with distributed MPC. Z. Du, R.R. Negenborn, V. Reppa. Ocean Engineering, vol. 260, no. 111917, 2022. Open access.   
41.Constructing knowledge maps for situation awareness of maritime autonomous surface ships. R. Song, E. Papadimitriou, R.R. Negenborn, P.H.A.J.M. van Gelder. Accepted for the International Ship Control Systems Symposium 2022 (ISCSS 2022), Delft, The Netherlands, November 2022.   
40.COLREGs-aware trajectory optimization for autonomous surface vessels. A. Tsolakis, D. Benders, O. de Groot, R.R. Negenborn, V. Reppa, L. Ferranti. In IFAC PapersOnline 55(31) (IEEE CAMS'22), Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, pp. 269-274, September 2022.   
39.Dynamic coordination of multiple vessels for offshore platform transportation. Z. Du, R.R. Negenborn, V. Reppa. Accepted for the 2022 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (IEEE CCTA'22), Trieste, Italy, August 2022.   
38.Multi-vessel cooperative speed regulation for ship manipulation in towing scenario. Z. Du, R.R. Negenborn, V. Reppa. In IFAC PapersOnLine 15(16) (IFAC CAMS'21), Oldenburg, Germany, pp. 384-389, September 2021.   
37.MPC-based COLREGS compliant collision avoidance for a multi-vessel ship-towing system. Z. Du, V. Reppa, R.R. Negenborn. Accepted for the 2021 European Control Conference (ECC'21), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June/July 2021.   
36.Cooperative multi-agent control for autonomous ship towing under environmental disturbances. Z. Du, R.R. Negenborn, V. Reppa. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 1365-1379, August 2021.   
35.Distributed leader-follower formation control for autonomous vessels based on model predictive control. M. van Pampus, A. Haseltalab, V. Garofano, V. Reppa, Y. Deinema, R.R. Negenborn. Accepted for the 2021 European Control Conference (ECC'21), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June/July 2021.   
34.The Collaborative Autonomous Shipping Experiment (CASE): Motivations, theory, infrastructure, and experimental challenges. A. Haseltalab, V. Garofano, M. Raheel Afzal, N. Faggioni, S. Li, J. Liu, F. Ma, M. Martelli, Y. Singh, P. Slaets, X. You, R.R. Negenborn. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Ship Control Systems Symposium (iSCSS 2020), Delft, The Netherlands, October 2020. 16 pp. Open access.   
33.A ship collision avoidance system for human-machine cooperation during collision avoidance. Y. Huang, L. Chen, R.R. Negenborn, P.H.A.J.M. van Gelder. Ocean Engineering, vol. 217, no. 107913, 2020. Open access.   
32.Dynamic rolling horizon scheduling of waterborne AGVs for inter terminal transport. H. Zheng, C. Jin, X. Luo, R.R. Negenborn, Y. Wang. In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA 2020), Sapporo, Japan, pp. 761-766, 2020.   
31.Follow-the-Leader control strategy for azimuth propulsion system on surface vessels. B. Piaggio, V. Garofano, S. Donnarumma, A. Alessandri, R.R. Negenborn, M. Martelli. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Ship Control Systems Symposium (iSCSS 2020), Delft, The Netherlands, October 2020. 12 pp. Open access.   
30.Cooperative control of autonomous tugs for ship towing in ports. Z. Du, V. Reppa, R.R. Negenborn. In Proceedings of the 21st IFAC World Congress (IFAC2020), Berlin, Germany, pp. 14671-14676, July 2020.   
29.Collision avoidance systems for maritime autonomous surface ships considering uncertainty in ship dynamics. Y. Huang, L. Chen, R.R. Negenborn, P.H.A.J.M. van Gelder. In Proceedings of the 21st IFAC World Congress (IFAC2020), Berlin, Germany, pp. 14815-14820, July 2020.   
28.Survey on cooperative control for waterborne transport. L. Chen, R.R. Negenborn, Y. Huang, J.J Hopman. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 71-90, 2020.   
27.Distributed model predictive control for cooperative floating object transport with multi-vessel systems. L. Chen, J.J. Hopman, R.R. Negenborn. Ocean Engineering, vol. 191 (2019), no. 106515, 2019.   
26.State-of-the-art research on motion control of maritime autonomous surface ships. L. Wang, Q. Wu, J. Liu, S. Li, R.R. Negenborn. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, vol. 7, no. 12, December 2019. Open access.   
25.Optimizing the joint collision avoidance operations of multiple ships from an overall perspective. S. Li, J. Liu, R.R. Negenborn, F. Ma. Ocean Engineering, vol. 191 (2019), no. 106511, 2019.   
24.Model predictive ship collision avoidance based on Q-learning beetle swarm antenna search and neural networks. S. Xie, V. Garofano, X. Chu, R.R. Negenborn. Ocean Engineering, vol. 193, no. 106609, December 2019.   
23.Ship collision avoidance methods: State-of-the-art. Y. Huang, L. Chen, P. Chen, R.R. Negenborn, P.H.A.J.M. van Gelder. Safety Science, vol. 121 (2020), pp. 451-473, 2019.   
22.Cooperative multi-vessel systems in urban waterway networks. L. Chen, Y. Huang, H. Zheng, J.J. Hopman, R.R. Negenborn. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 3294-3307, 2019.   
21.Eco-VTF: Fuel-efficient vessel train formations for all-electric autonomous ships. L. Chen, A. Haseltalab, V. Garofano, R.R. Negenborn. In Proceedings of the 2019 European Control Conference (ECC'19), Naples, Italy, pp. 2543-2550, June 2019.   
20.Distributed coordination for collision avoidance of multiple ships considering ship maneuverability. S. Li, J. Liu, R.R. Negenborn. Ocean Engineering, vol. 181, pp. 212-226, June 2019.   
19.Cooperative distributed predictive control for collision-free vehicle platoons. H. Zheng, J. Wu, W. Wu, R.R. Negenborn. IET Intelligent Transport Systems, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 816-824, May 2019.   
18.Distributed model predictive control for vessel train formations of cooperative multi-vessel systems. L. Chen, J.J. Hopman, R.R. Negenborn. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, vol. 92, pp. 101-118, July 2018.   
17.Autonomous surface vessels in ports: Applications, technology and port infrastructures. A. Devaraju, L. Chen, R.R. Negenborn. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL 2018), Vietri sul Mare, Italy, pp. 85-105, October 2018.   
16.Coordination of multiple vessels via distributed nonlinear model predictive control. L. Ferranti, R.R. Negenborn, T. Keviczky, J. Alonso-Mora. In Proceedings of the 17th European Control Conference (ECC 2018), Limassol, Cyprus, pp. 2523-2528, June 2018.   
15.Intersection crossing of cooperative multi-vessel systems. L. Chen, R.R. Negenborn, J.J. Hopman. In Proceedings of the 15th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems (IFAC CTS 2018), Savona, Italy, pp. 379-385, June 2018. Open Access.   
14.Robust distributed predictive control of waterborne AGVs - a cooperative and cost-effective approach. H. Zheng, R.R. Negenborn, G. Lodewijks. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 48, no. 8, pp. 2449-2461, August 2018.   
13.Survey on autonomous surface vessels: Part I - A new detailed definition of autonomy levels. M. Schiaretti, L. Chen, R.R. Negenborn. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL 2017), Southampton, UK, pp. 219-233, October 2017.   
12.Survey on autonomous surface vessels: Part II - Categorization of 60 prototypes and future applications. M. Schiaretti, L. Chen, R.R. Negenborn. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL 2017), Southampton, UK, pp. 234-252, October 2017.   
11.Planning inland vessel operations in large seaports using a two-phase approach. S. Li, R.R. Negenborn, G. Lodewijks. Computers and Industrial Engineering, vol. 106, pp. 41-57, April 2017.   
10.Closed-loop coordination of inland vessels operations in large seaports using hybrid logic-based Benders decomposition. S. Li, R.R. Negenborn, G. Lodewijks. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, vol. 97, pp. 1-21, January 2017.   
9.Fast ADMM for distributed model predictive control of cooperative Waterborne AGVs. H. Zheng, R.R. Negenborn, G. Lodewijks. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 1406-1413, July 2017.   
8.Closed-loop scheduling and control of waterborne AGVs for energy-efficient Inter Terminal Transport. H. Zheng, R.R. Negenborn, G. Lodewijks. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, vol. 105, pp. 261-278, September 2017.   
7.Cooperative distributed collision avoidance based on ADMM for waterborne AGVs. H. Zheng, R.R. Negenborn, G. Lodewijks. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL'15), Delft, The Netherlands, pp. 181-194, September 2015.   
6.A two phase approach for inter-terminal transport of inland vessels using preference-based coordination rules. S. Li, R.R Negenborn, G. Lodewijks. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL'15), Delft, The Netherlands, pp. 281-297, September 2015.   
5.Coordination for efficient transport over water. S. Li, H. Zheng, R.R. Negenborn, G. Lodewijks. In Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (IEEE CSCWD'15), Calabria, Italy, pp. 389-394, May 2015.   
4.Vessel rotation planning: A layered distributed constraint optimization approach. S. Li, R.R. Negenborn, G. Lodewijks. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 8, January 2015.   
3.A distributed constraint optimization approach for vessel rotation planning. S. Li, R.R. Negenborn, G. Lodewijks. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL'14), Valparaiso, Chile, pp. 61-80, September 2014.   
2.Survey of approaches for improving the intelligence of marine surface vehicles. H. Zheng, R.R. Negenborn, G. Lodewijks. In Proceedings of the 16th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC 2013), The Hague, The Netherlands, pp. 1217-1223, October 2013.   
1.Survey on planning problems in inland waterway transport: Current status and future perspectives. S. Li, R.R. Negenborn, G. Lodewijks. In Proceedings of the 16th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC 2013), The Hague, The Netherlands, pp. 1231-1237, October 2013.