Transport Engineering and Logistics
Industrial systems grow in terms of size, capacity, complexity and ambient pollution. They also interact more with the environment and are controlled real time. People however expect industrial systems, and transport and production systems in particular to be safe, flexible, efficient, reliable, and labour extensive. Future industrial systems therefore have to be designed in a different way focusing on their control and management, the powering of the equipment used, the effects of automation, and their ambient impact.
Control systems used in transport systems today are centralized, mostly rigid systems. The applied intelligence is installed at system level and not at equipment or component level. It is therefore impossible to achieve the safety, mobility, flexibility and the increase in capacity essential for tomorrow's systems.
To achieve this, new tools for design, control, simulation and optimization need to be developed that are based on fundamental innovations and new insights gained into the physics of continuous transport phenomena, as well as the development of agile logistic control systems for discrete (event driven) transport systems using distributed intelligence.
Research facilities
» AGV Lab
» RFID Lab (TUD3R)
Research programs
The research activities are carried out within different research programs and with industrial partners, especially those located in the Rotterdam area of the Netherlands.
PhD research
| Intelligent Control of Long High-Speed Moving Walkways | Indraswari Kusumaningtyas, MSc. |
| Integration and operational use of prognostics in the control of logistic systems | Adriana Lopez de la Cruz, MSc |
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Optimal Routes and optimal location of the airports for Low-Cost Airline Companies |
Rafael Carmona Benitez, MSc. |
| Design of a Bulk Terminal for Biomass | Mi-Rong (Kimberly) Wu, MSc. |
| Data Acquisition and Information Management in Intelligent Transport Systems | Yusong Pang, MSc |
| no project information available | Ir. Mark Duinkerken |
| no project information available | Ir. Wouter van den Bos |
Research projects
| Spillage prevention in bulk handling | ms. dr.ir. Dingena Schott |
| TRANSUMO, PILOT | dr.ir. H.P.M. Veeke |
