Raphael van Kempen

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Raphael van Kempen is a leading researcher at the intersection of automated mobility, edge-cloud computing, and cooperative multi-robot systems. His work focuses on enabling secure, high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity for automated vehicles through novel data interfaces and 5G integration. In his highly cited 2022 paper, van Kempen introduced a novel MQTT-based interface evaluated in a 5G case study on edge-cloud LiDAR object detection, demonstrating how reliable connectivity between vehicles, infrastructure, and external servers can accelerate fully automated driving. This work has garnered 14 citations and established him as a key contributor to the field of connected automated mobility. Building on this foundation, van Kempen's 2023 paper "RobotKube" (10 citations) pioneers the orchestration of large-scale cooperative multi-robot systems using Kubernetes and ROS, addressing the growing complexity of cyber-physical systems like Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS). By advocating for microservice architectures with containerized microservices running in clusters, van Kempen is shaping the next generation of scalable, software-defined autonomous systems. His research is essential reading for anyone working on the practical deployment of automated vehicles and cooperative robotics.