The development of a method to predict ship-bank interaction in real-time

Due to increasing marine traffic intensity on inland waterways the interaction between ships and banks is becoming more of a problem. Bank effects make ship manoeuvring more difficult and rivers need to be protected against ship-induced currents and waves. This thesis contributes to the development of a new method that simulates these ship-bank...

Online Interaction-Based Property Estimation of Objects

The goal of this thesis is to develop online model-based parameter estimation techniques for robotics towards extracting geometrical or physical properties of an unknown (or partially unknown) dynamic environment through a tactile interaction with it. The thesis focuses on a one-dimensional case of a rigid movable object, not yet studied in the...