Projects
GNSS, INS, Stereo Camera and LIDAR Sensor Fusion and Perception for Autonomous Inland Waterway Navigation KU Leuven
Due to the movement towards greener industries and lower operating costs there is renewed interest in transporting goods using inland waterways. However, labour expenditures currently make up about 30% of operational costs. Making the ships autonomous would therefore significantly reduce costs. However, autonomous inland waterway navigation requires very accurate localisation, due to the confined spaces of inland waterways. A common solution ...
The mapping of operational and infrastructural emissions of inland navigation in Flanders Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Based on a ...
Perception for Autonomous Inland Waterways Navigation KU Leuven
Shipping on inland waterways can be a critical contributor in handling increasing transportation volumes. However, it is faced with a lack of ship crews, which could be alleviated by increased vessel automation, or deployment of unmanned ships. To realise autonomous shipping, prior conceptual research suggests the combined use of several sensor types. While conceptually similar to autonomous road vehicles, unmanned shipping differs in key ...
Drafting a note in the framework of the announcement procedure at the EC for providing state support to initiatives for consolidating intermodal rail and inland navigation volumes in the port. University of Antwerp
Towards dynamic navigational charts for highly automated inland waterway transport KU Leuven
Current inland navigational charts, and by extent the Inland Electronic Chart Display Information System (Inland ECDIS) that adds additional sensor information on top of these charts and subsequently visualizes them, are not dynamically updated. Moreover, the data layered on top of charts, e.g. from Radar sensors, is not shared between various assets. This, together with the absence of an xy-accuracy indication for chart objects, severely ...
Towards Autonomous Inland Shipping. KU Leuven
Road transport dominates the European and Belgian hinterland freight transport
sector. Over the last decades, approximately three quarters of the cargo
streams passed by road, whilst inland waterway transport seems to offer a more
sustainable alternative. Moreover, the larger inland vessels suffer from an excess
of supply over demand, and the amount of smaller inland vessels is diminishing.
This negative evolution in ...
A model predictive autopilot for autonomous inland vessels KU Leuven
The European Commission has confirmed the importance of shipping via inland vessels based on the EU green deal. It means there will be a growth in their utilization, which would result in a shortage of crew members to operate these vessels. Hence, it is essential to add autonomous features to the navigation systems to moderate the burden of the navigation from the crew’s shoulders so that operating a vessel requires fewer crew members. On the ...