Dr. Vasso Reppa is an Assistant Professor with the Transport Engineering and Logistics Section of the Maritime and Transport Technology Department.
She received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2010. From 2011 to 2017, she was a Research Associate (now Research Affiliate) with the KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence, Cyprus. In 2013, she was awarded the Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship and worked as a Research Fellow with CentraleSupélec, University of Paris-Saclay, France, from 2014 to 2016. She was a Visiting Researcher with Imperial College London, U.K., in 2015; and with The University of Newcastle, Australia, in 2016.
Safety and Autonomy of Maritime Transport Systems, Multi-agent design, sensor faults, inland waterway transport, marine power and propulsion plant
Modeling of vessel operations, Distributed fault diagnosis, distributed fault tolerant control, vessel-to vessel & vessel-to-infrastructure coordination, health-aware control, rule-compliant operations
[J.1]. P. Segovia, R. Ummels, T. van den Boom, V. REPPA, Multi-Vessel Placement in Multi- Chamber Inland Waterway Transport Locks using Switching Max-Plus Algebra Ocean Engineering, Ocean Engineering 2025, vol. 343
[J.2]. C. Zhang, A. Dhyani, J. W. Ringsberg, F. Thies, R. R. Negenborn, V. REPPA, Nonlinear model predictive control for path following of autonomous inland vessels in confined waterways, Ocean Engineering, vol. 334, pp. 121592, 2025
[J.3]. N. Kougiatsos, E. Scheffers, M. C. van Benten, D. L. Schott, P. de Vos, R. R. Negenborn, V. REPPA, An Intelligent Agent-Based Resilient Framework for Marine Vessel Mission Adaptations, IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 6, pp. 184– 203, 2025
[J.4]. P. Segovia, V. Puig, R. R. Negenborn, V. REPPA, Dynamic Coordination of Multiple Movable Bridges and Vessels for Time-Efficient Inland Waterway Navigation, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 26, pp. 5481–5493, 2025
[J.5]. A. Tsolakis, R. R. Negenborn, V. REPPA, L. Ferranti, Model Predictive Trajectory Optimization and Control for Autonomous Surface Vessels Considering Traffic Rules, IEEE Transactions in Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 25, pp. 9895–9908, 2024
[J.6]. N. Kougiatsos, V. REPPA, A Distributed Cyber-Physical Framework for sensor fault diagnosis of marine fuel engines, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 32, pp, 1718–1729, 2024
[J.7]. J. Ye, C. Li, W. Wen, R. Zhou, V. REPPA, Deep learning in maritime autonomous surface ships: Current development and challenges, Journal of Marine Science and Application, vol. 22, pp. 584–601, 2023
[J.8]. P. Segovia, M. Pesselse, T. van de Boom, V. REPPA, Scheduling inland waterway transport vessels and locks using a switching max-plus-linear systems approach, IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 3, pp. 748–762, 2022
[J.9]. Z. Du, R. R. Negenborn, V. REPPA, Distributed Dynamic Coordination Control for Offshore Platform Transportation under Ocean Environmental Disturbances, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 31, pp. 2093–2106, 2023
[J.10]. Z. Du, R. R. Negenborn, V. REPPA, Review of Floating Object Manipulation by Autonomous Multi-Vessel Systems, Annual Reviews in Control, vol. 55, pp. 255–278, 2023
[J.11]. Z. Du, R. R. Negenborn, V. REPPA, COLREGS-compliant collision avoidance for physically coupled multi-vessel systems with distributed MPC, Ocean Engineering, Special Issue “Autonomous Surface Vessels: Current and Future Perspectives”, vol 260, 111917, 2022
[J.12]. Z. Du, R. R. Negenborn, V. REPPA, Multi-objective cooperative control for a ship-towing system in congested water traffic environments, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 24318–24329, 2022
[J.13]. S. Antonopoulos, K. Visser, M. Kalikatzarakis, V. REPPA, MPC Framework for the Energy Management of Hybrid Ships with an Energy Storage System, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, vol. 9, 993, pp. 1–28, 2021
[J.14]. Z. Du, R. R. Negenborn, V. REPPA, Cooperative Multi-Agent Control for Autonomous Ship Towing under Environmental Disturbances, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 8, pp. 1365–1379, 2021
[J.15]. Q. Zhang, W. Pan, V. REPPA, Model-Reference Reinforcement Learning for Collision-Free Tracking Control of Autonomous Surface Vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 8770–8781, 2022
[J.16]. J. Ye, S. Roy, M. Godjevac, V. REPPA, S. Baldi, Robustifying Dynamic Positioning of Crane Vessels for Heavy Lifting Operation, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 753–765, 2021
[J.17]. J. Ye, V. REPPA, M. Godjevac, R. R. Negenborn, Construction Mode Detection for Autonomous Offshore Heavy Lift Operations, Safety Science, vol. 133, pp. 1–12, 2021