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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs): Applications and Technologies
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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs): Applications and Technologies

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Transportation and Future Mobility".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2024 | Viewed by 558

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Yuehai Zhou

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College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361002, China
Interests: underwater acoustic signal processing; underwater acoustic network; underwater acoustic device research; artificial intelligence in underwater acoustic applications
Dr. Feiyun Wu

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School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
Interests: compressed sensing; adaptive signal processing; channel estimation and equalizer design
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Dear Colleagues,

With the exploration of the ocean, a significant number of coastal engineering and offshore engineering constructions have been established in recent decades. The rapid development of human activities has had a significant impact on the marine environment, causing global climate change and geological disasters, for example. Meanwhile, the growing need for underwater data sensing, underwater data transmission and reception, underwater environmental monitoring, etc., has garnered significant attention.  

The traditional methods employed to explore and protect the ocean are not only expensive, but also risky. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) provide a novel tool with which to sense the ocean. AUVs have a vast variety of applications, including offshore projects, underwater imaging, underwater acoustics, environmental monitoring, the maritime salvage sector, the military industry, etc.

So far, the utilization and deployment of AUVs in ocean exploration and protection have presented challenges in navigation, communication, and control. This Special Issue is dedicated to recent advances in AUV applications and technologies. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

  1. AUV design;
  2. AUV control;
  3. Power management and control for AUV;
  4. Underwater acoustic navigation for AUVs;
  5. Underwater acoustic communication for AUVs;
  6. Underwater acoustic network for AUVs;
  7. Compact underwater acoustic MODEM design for AUVs;
  8. Multi-AUV collaborative operation.

Dr. Yuehai Zhou
Dr. Feiyun Wu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • AUV design
  • AUV control
  • power management and control for AUVs
  • underwater acoustic navigation for AUVs
  • underwater acoustic communication for AUVs
  • underwater acoustic network for AUVs
  • compact underwater acoustic MODEM design for AUVs
  • multi-AUV collaborative operation

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Practical Steps towards Establishing an Underwater Acoustic Network in the Context of the Marine Internet of Things
by Konstantin Kebkal, Aleksey Kabanov, Oleg Kramar, Maksim Dimin, Timur Abkerimov, Vadim Kramar and Veronika Kebkal-Akbari
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(8), 3527; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14083527 - 22 Apr 2024
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When several hydroacoustic modems operate simultaneously in an area of mutual coverage, collisions of data packets received from several sources may occur, which lead to information loss. With an increase in the number of simultaneously operating hydroacoustic modems, physical layer algorithms do not [...] Read more.
When several hydroacoustic modems operate simultaneously in an area of mutual coverage, collisions of data packets received from several sources may occur, which lead to information loss. With an increase in the number of simultaneously operating hydroacoustic modems, physical layer algorithms do not provide stable data transmission and the likelihood of collisions increases, which makes the operation of modems ineffective. To ensure effective operation in a hydroacoustic signal propagation environment and to reduce collisions when exchanging data between two modems that do not have the ability to operate synchronously and to reduce the access time to the signal propagation environment, methods of the medium access control layer using link layer protocols are required. Typically, this problem is solved using code separation of hydroacoustic channels. If you need to transfer over a network, this option will not work, since network transfer involves working on the basis of “broadcast” messages, particularly between data source and data sink that remain too far from each other, outside of their mutual audibility. In practical use, it is convenient to place these protocols into a software environment for developing specific user applications for solving network communication problems. This software framework allows for custom modification of existing network algorithms, as well as the inclusion of new network hydroacoustic communication algorithms. To build a predictive model, the DACAP, T-Lohi, Flooding, and ICRP protocols were used in this work. The implementation is performed in Erlang. The paper presents algorithms for implementing these protocols. A comparative analysis of network operation with and without protocols is provided. Efficiency of operation, i.e., data rates and probabilities of data delivery, was assessed. Full article
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