Spring 2021 Marine Autonomy Roundtable - Connecting to the Event
All sessions will be held as a Zoom Webinar. The Zoom link will be posted to this page roughly 24 hours before the event. Please check back HERE then.
The next event is: Tuesday May 18th 2021, 925 EDT (Boston time)
- Link to join Webinar: https://mit.zoom.us/j/99731554250
- Panelists should have gotten an email invitation, with a unique link to join as a panelist.
The webinar Zoom link opens at 925, and we start promptly at 930.
Next Upcoming Speaker:
Dr. Gerben Peeters, Prof. Peter Slaets
KU Leuven, Belgium
Towards automated inland cargo shipping in Western-Europe
The current Western-European inland waterway transport sector seems to be evolving into an economically unviable transport mode, whereas this sector presently offers a more sustainable solution for hinterland freight transport than road-based transport. Automated or unmanned inland cargo vessels might induce a paradigmatic change in this tension field. Although the conceptual idea of automated or unmanned vessels itself might be straightforward, it is not clear how these vessels could or should look like.
Therefore, the Intelligent Mobile Platforms research group from the KU Leuven explores the technological feasibility of unmanned inland cargo vessels. In this talk, we will give an overview of our past, ongoing, and future projects for automated inland vessels.