Dr. Nikos Kougiatsos

Committed to enabling intelligent and sustainable advancements in the maritime industry, leveraging a solid foundation in marine engineering and control systems technology. 

Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Delft University of Technology, contributing to the EU Project SEAMLESS and related Smart Shipping initiatives. My work focuses on the Guidance, Navigation and Control of Unmanned Surface Vessels as well as tools promoting ship intelligence and maritime safety.

[1] Kougiatsos, N., & Reppa, V. (2024). A Distributed Cyber-Physical Framework for Sensor Fault Diagnosis of Marine Internal Combustion Engines, in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 1718-1729, Sept. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TCST.2024.3378992. 

[2] Kougiatsos, N., Scheffers, E. L., van Benten, M. C., Schott, D. L., de Vos, P., Negenborn, R. R., & Reppa, V. (2025). An intelligent Agent-Based Resilient Framework for Marine Vessel Mission Adaptations. IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, doi: 10.1109/OJITS.2025.3539419.

[1] Kougiatsos, N., Negenborn, R. R., & Reppa, V. (2022). Distributed model-based sensor fault diagnosis of marine fuel engines. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 55(6), 347-353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.07.153  

[2] Kougiatsos, N., Reppa, V. (2022). A Distributed virtual sensor scheme for marine fuel engines. Nominated for Best Paper Award in IFAC CAMS 2022, IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 55, Issue 31, 2022, Pages 333-338, ISSN 2405-8963, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.10.451. 

[3] van Benten, M. C., Kougiatsos, N., & Reppa, V. (2022). Mission-oriented Modular Control of Retrofittable Marine Power Plants. Proceedings of the International Ship Control Systems Symposium, 16, [20]. https://doi.org/10.24868/10721 

[4] Kougiatsos, N., Negenborn, R. R., & Reppa, V. (2022). A Multi-Sensory Switching-stable Architecture for Distributed Fault Tolerant Propulsion Control of Marine Vessels. Proceedings of the International Ship Control Systems Symposium, 16, [27]. https://doi.org/10.24868/10728 

[5] N. Kougiatsos, J. Zwaginga, J. Pruyn and V. Reppa, "Semantically Enhanced System and Automation Design of Complex Marine Vessels," 2023 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Mexico City, Mexico, 2023, pp. 512-518, doi: 10.1109/SSCI52147.2023.10372005 

[6] Kougiatsos, N., Reppa, V. (2024). Sensor Set Decomposition for Enhanced Distributed Sensor Fault Isolability of Marine Propulsion Systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 58, Issue 4, Pages 49-54, ISSN 2405-8963, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.07.192.