Abhishek Dhyani, MS

Abhishek Dhyani is an early-stage researcher at the Maritime and Transport Technology Department of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), working under the Transport Engineering and Logistics (TEL) section of the department. As a part of the ETN – AUTOBarge, his research involves ensuring the safe control and coordination of autonomous vessels by developing a fault diagnosis framework for the inland waterway interconnected systems.

He obtained his master’s degree with a specialization in control systems from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi. As a part of his master’s thesis, he worked on designing and developing a feedback control algorithm for achieving tracking control performance in multivariable systems while expending minimal control effort.

Abhishek is passionate about research in the broad areas of autonomous vehicles, control, and optimization. Through his research, he aims to contribute to making transportation more reliable, safe, and accessible for all.

• Multi-agent systems

• Fault diagnosis and Fault-tolerant control

• Distributed control

• Autonomous systems

[1] Dhyani, A., Negenborn, R. R., & Reppa, V. (2024). A Multiple Sensor Fault Diagnosis Scheme for Autonomous Surface Vessels. In 12th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS 2024). 

[2] Dhyani, A., Wang, Y., Verbeke, M., Pissoort, D., & Reppa, V. (2024, April). A POMDP model-based online risk mitigation method for autonomous inland vessels. In Proceedings of the IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics and Vehicles. 

[3] Zhang, C., Dhyani, A., Ringsberg, J. W., Thies, F., Reppa, V., & Negenborn, R. R. (2024, June). Manoeuvring Modelling and Control Design of Autonomous Vessels on Inland Waterways. In International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (Vol. 87820, p. V05AT06A046). American Society of Mechanical Engineers.