Identification and control for an autonomous inland waterway vessel

The projector focuses on two key technologies required to perform autonomous inland shipping: First, models are needed that are capable of predicting the sailing behavior of the vessel and that can be incorporated in the maneuvering control loop. Hence, these models should hold the right trade-off between accuracy/reliability and simplicity. In a second step, the acquired models are used to design a model based controller that make it possible to sail autonomous on inland waterways.