Thomas Thuesen Enevoldsen

I'm currently working as a Senior R&D Engineer at ABB, Marine & Ports, working on advanced control and algorithm solutions for the marine control product portfolio.

Previously I was a Ph.D. candidate at the Automation and Control Group, Technical University of Denmark, supervised by Roberto Galeazzi and Mogens Blanke, as part of Work Package 2 in the ShippingLab project. The topic of my research, and eventual thesis, revolves around developing and researching methods for safe and rule-compliant (COLREGs-compliant) collision and grounding schemes for partially and fully autonomous marine crafts. In March 2023 I successfully defended my PhD thesis titled "Informed Sampling-based Collision and Grounding Avoidance for Autonomous Marine Crafts".

My past research had an emphasis on planning safe, optimal and COLREGs-compliant path deviations for semi to fully autonomous marine crafts. Adhering to the COLREGs, the maritime "rules of the road", is one of the great challenges for high complexity multi-vessel scenarios. We are currently working on exploiting sampling-based planning methods, in order to compute the best possible path alterations.

Autonomy, marine crafts, wind turbine systems, control theory, fault diagnosis, and general robotics research are realms within my working interests. Besides my Ph.D in collision and grounding avoidance for marine crafts, I have a background in Electrical Engineering (MSc.) studying Automation and Robot Technology, with an emphasis on fault diagnosis and control systems.

Email: thomasthuesen [at] hotmail [dot] com

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Thomas Thuesen Enevoldsen
Publications

For the most up-to-date list of publications, please see google scholar.

Under review

Guaranteed Rejection-free Sampling Method Using Past Behaviours for Motion Planning of Autonomous Systems
T.T. Enevoldsen, R. Galeazzi
preprint

2023

Informed Sampling-based Collision and Grounding Avoidance for Autonomous Marine Crafts
Ph.D. Thesis, Technical University of Denmark, 2023
T.T. Enevoldsen
pdf   |   DTU Orbit

Autonomy for Ferries and Harbour Buses: a Collision Avoidance Perspective
22nd IFAC World Congress, 2023
T.T. Enevoldsen, M. Blanke, R. Galeazzi
preprint

2022

Informed Sampling-based Collision Avoidance with Least Deviation from the Nominal Path
T.T. Enevoldsen, R. Galeazzi
2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
paper   |   preprint
Sampling-based Collision and Grounding Avoidance for Marine Crafts
T.T. Enevoldsen, M. Blanke, R. Galeazzi
Ocean Engineering, 2022
paper
Autonomous Navigation in Confined Waters - A COLREGs Rule 9 Compliant Framework
P.N. Hansen, T.T. Enevoldsen, D. Papageorgiou, M. Blanke
14th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles (CAMS), 2022
paper   |   preprint
pyTEP: A Python package for interactive simulations of the Tennessee Eastman process
C. Reinartz, T.T. Enevoldsen
SoftwareX, 2022
paper   |   repo

2021

Grounding-aware RRT* for Path Planning and Safe Navigation of Marine Crafts in Confined Waters
T.T. Enevoldsen, R. Galeazzi
13th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles (CAMS), 2021
paper   |   preprint   |   video

Trajectory Prediction for Marine Vessels using Historical AIS Heatmaps and Long Short-Term Memory Networks
F.E.T. Schöller, T.T. Enevoldsen, J.B. Becktor, P.N. Hansen
13th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics, and Vehicles (CAMS), 2021
paper

COLREGs-Informed RRT* for Collision Avoidance of Marine Crafts
T.T. Enevoldsen, C. Reinartz, R. Galeazzi
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
paper   |   preprint   |   video

A Causal Model-based Planner for the Reconfiguration of Continuous Processes
C. Reinartz, T.T. Enevoldsen, R. Galeazzi, O. Ravn
European Control Conference (ECC), 2021
paper   |   preprint

2020

Condition Monitoring for Single-Rotor Wind Turbine Load Sensors in the Full-Load Region
T.T. Enevoldsen, R. Galeazzi, D. Papageorgiou, C. Jeppesen
21st IFAC World Congress (1st Virtual IFAC World Congress), 2020
paper

2018

Model Comparison of a Videoray Pro 4 Underwater ROV
S. Pedersen, T.T. Enevoldsen, E.M. Einarsson
IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), 2018
paper   |   preprint

Simplified Modelling and Identification of an Inspection ROV
T.T. Enevoldsen, E.M. Einarsson, S. Pedersen, Z. Yang
3rd IFAC Workshop on Automatic Control in Offshore Oil and Gas Production OOGP, 2018
paper

Theses

Informed Sampling-based Collision and Grounding Avoidance for Autonomous Marine Crafts
Ph.D. Thesis, Technical University of Denmark, 2023
T.T. Enevoldsen
pdf   |   DTU Orbit

Condition Monitoring of Blade Load Sensors for Safe Wind Turbine Operation
MSc. Thesis, Technical University of Denmark, 2019
T.T. Enevoldsen with Vestas Wind Systems A/S (Supervised by R. Galeazzi, D. Papageorgiou, C. Jeppesen)

Parameter Estimation and Model-based Control of an ROV with Imaging for Object Detection
BSc. Thesis, Aalborg University Esbjerg, 2017
T.T. Enevoldsen & E.M. Einarsson (Supervised by S. Pedersen, Z. Yang)

Service

Reviewing
IFAC WC (2020), IFAC CAMS (2021, 2022), IROS (2022), Journal of Ocean Engineering, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems

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