Safe-NET
SAFE AUTONOMOUS MARITIME TRANSPORT
RESEARCH GROUP
About us
Sketched by ‘Erwin Suvaal from CVIII Ontwerpers’
Safe Autonomous Maritime Transport (Safe-NET) is a research group in the department of Maritime and Transport Technology (MTT), within the faculty of Mechanical, Maritime, and Materials Engineering (3mE) at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). SAFE-NET activities are part of the ResearchLab Autonomous Shipping (RAS) in the context of the M&TT Department research theme 'Safe Autonomous and Complex Ships' (SACS).
Aiming to enable sustainability, to increase system efficiency and availability, Safe-NET group works on enhancing autonomy in maritime transport through the digitalization and automatization of all systems and at all levels of maritime transport while ensuring safety.
Our research methodology integrates: (i) design based on fundamental research on modelling, control, monitoring and planning, (ii) development in a cyber-physical-human system framework, and (iii) verification and validation.
Our research methodology is utilized to solve contemporary problems in maritime transport including: : (i) the inland lock and bridge dynamic scheduling for efficient vessel passage, (ii) the vessel navigation compliant to COLREGs, (iii) the ship towing operation using tugboats, (iv) the offshore platform transport by multiple tugboats, (v) the offshore heavy lift operations, and (iv) the power and propulsion system of marine vessels.
News and Gallery
Our group's participating events, milestones and highlights...
Abhishek presented his latest work at the 15th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles 2024, Virginia, US, titled "A POMDP Model-Based Online Risk Mitigation Method for Autonomous Inland Vessels." A. Dhyani, Y. Wang, M. Verbeke, D. Pissoort, and V. Reppa.
Abhishek, Nikos and Tasos presented their latest work in the special session "FD and FTC for Safety of Marine Systems" of the IFAC SAFEPROCESS 2024 Conference
"A Multiple Sensor Fault Diagnosis Scheme for Autonomous Surface Vessels", A. Dhyani, R.N. Negenborn, V. Reppa
"Active Thruster Fault Diagnosis for an Overactuated Autonomous Surface Vessel", A. Tsolakis, L. Ferranti, V. Reppa
"Sensor Set Decomposition for Enhanced Distributed Sensor Fault Isolability of Marine Propulsion Systems", N. Kougiatos, V. Reppa
Should the maritime industry act or react in the case of cyberattacks onboard marine vessels? You can find an interesting article related to this question here