Advanced Control and Sensing Technologies for Intelligent Underwater Systems
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2026 | Viewed by 99
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrodynamics of soft-body bio-inspired underwater vehicle, biomimetic underwater propulsion, and analysis of stability of bio-inspired robotic fish using CFD; fuzzy
Interests: biomimetic manta ray soft-bodied submersible; biomimetic underwater robot; overall design and intelligent control of soft robots; hydrodynamics; PIV flow field observation
Interests: underwater target detection; information fusion
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Dear Colleagues,
With the rapid development of intelligent underwater unmanned systems, the need to achieve high autonomy, strong robustness, and good adaptability in unstructured marine environments is becoming increasingly urgent. To address these challenges, advanced control and perception technologies have been developed as the core pillars supporting the real-time perception, intelligent decision-making, and autonomous execution capabilities of underwater platforms.
This Special Issue focuses on the cutting-edge application of control and perception technologies in intelligent underwater systems, covering a wide range of research contents. These include, but are not limited to, sensor fusion, distributed and swarm control, model predictive control (MPC), learning-based adaptive control, real-time signal processing, bionic control and perception methods, autonomous navigation and planning, and new drive mechanisms and multi-modal perception technologies. These technologies play a crucial supporting role in tasks such as underwater navigation, operation, detection, and environmental perception in complex environments.
We welcome original research results covering theoretical methods, algorithm development, simulation studies, and experimental verification. Empirical research combining experimental platforms or sea trials is particularly encouraged. This Special Issue is dedicated to promoting the cross-disciplinary integration of control theory, robotics, artificial intelligence, ocean engineering, and perception science, and to facilitating technological innovation and the engineering-based implementation of the next generation of autonomous intelligent underwater systems.
Dr. Yang Luo
Prof. Dr. Yong Cao
Prof. Dr. Feihu Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- intelligent underwater systems
- sensor fusion
- swarm and distributed control
- learning-based control
- real-time signal processing
- bio-inspired control and sensing
- novel actuation and perception mechanisms
- model predictive control
- autonomous navigation and planning
- underwater robotics
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