Dr. Abhishek Dhyani

Abhishek Dhyani is a postdoctoral 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. Earlier, he obtained a PhD degree at the same department as part of the Marie-Curie project – AUTOBarge. His research involves designing intelligent systems to ensure the safe control and coordination of autonomous maritime 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.

• Fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control

• Safe autonomous systems

• Optimal control 

• Ship navigation

• Multi-agent systems

[1] Dhyani, A., Van Der El, K., Negenborn, R. R., & Reppa, V. (2026). Multiple sensor fault diagnosis for safe navigation of autonomous surface vessels. Control Engineering Practice, 168, 106673. 

[2] Zhang, C., Dhyani, A., Ringsberg, J. W., Thies, F., Negenborn, R. R., & Reppa, V. (2025). Nonlinear model predictive control for path following of autonomous inland vessels in confined waterways. Ocean Engineering, 334, 121592. 

[3] 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.