Intelligent Underwater Vehicles

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is intended to encourage innovation in the research and development of intelligent underwater vehicles, e.g. AUV, ROV and Glider, etc. Since marine research and exploration in recent decades have promoted the necessity of an intelligent underwater vehicle industry, intelligent underwater vehicles provide a new kind of marine research platform that are already well known as an asset in many fields of oceanographic and naval research. In addition, there are individual kinds of designs and control systems that need to be developed in order to improve the navigation performance of intelligent underwater vehicles.

Therefore, this Special Issue will cover the following research areas: (a) development of prototypes, experiments conducted in the laboratory or sea trials; (b) navigation system; (c) control system; (d) dynamic positioning; (e) underwater inspection; (f) hydrodynamic analysis; (g) maneuvering performance; (h) machine learning.

Prof. Dr. Yu-Hsien Lin
Guest Editor

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