People
Members of the Autonomous Ship Lab.
PhD Students & Researcher
Haibin Li
PhD 2025-present
Multi-Ship Intelligent Collision Avoidance System (co-supervise with C. Guedes Soares)
Abbasali Ghassemzadeh
PhD 2023-present
Nonlinear Navigation System for underactuated autonomous surface ships in adverse weather conditions (co-supervise with C. Guedes Soares)
Boyu Han
PhD 2025-present
Obstacle Detection Methods Using Maritime Radar
Fernando Santos
PhD 2022-present
Infrastructure of experimental study of autonomous vessels performance
Ruilin Liu
Visiting PhD 2025-2026
Adaptive formation control
Dongdong Guo
Visiting PhD 2025.12-2026.12
Berthing State Estimation using LiDAR (Supervisor)
Zhiquan Liu
Visiting Scholar 2025.12-2026.01
Nonlinear Pathf following control
Rui Tian
Visiting PhD 2025.03-2025.03
Manoeuvring modelling using mutual information clustering (Supervisor)
Zhilin Yang
Visiting PhD 2025.03-2026.03
Image and video stitching (Supervisor)
Xiaofei Shi
Visiting Scholar 2025.12-2026.01
SAR radar Extraction (Supervisor)
MSc Students
Sara Nunes de Serpa
MSc 2025-2026
Obstacles avoidance (Supervisor)
Pedro Miguel de Araújo Ferreira Carapeto
MSc 2025-2026
Autonomous Tug (Supervisor)
Joao Simao
MSc 2025-2026
Nonlinear Control (Supervisor)
Ana Catarina Costa
MSc 2020-2021
Manoeuvring modelling (Supervisor)
Former Lab Members
Paulo Pires Silva
PhD 2024.09-2025.08
Manoeuvring modelling using sea trials
Yao Meng
Visiting PhD 2024.09-2025.08
Manoeuvring modelling and Prediction
Hugan Zhang
Visiting PhD 2023.07-2024.07
Cooperative Formation Control
Chenfeng Huang
Visiting PhD 2021.09-2022.10
Formation Control
Zihao Wang
Visiting PhD 2020-2021
Manoeuvring modelling using SVM