Biomimetic Underwater Robots
A special issue of Biomimetics (ISSN 2313-7673).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2020) | Viewed by 288
Special Issue Editor
Interests: soft robots and sensors; bio-inspired design; advanced digital fabrication of soft multi-functional composites; modelling and control of unsteady locomotion in fluids; environmental studies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite contributions to our Special Issue on “Biomimetic Underwater Robots”. The Special Issue will survey the most promising bio-inspired and biomimetic approaches to improve performance in underwater robots. Both comprehensive reviews and original articles are welcome. Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- New approaches to locomotion
- Improving locomotion efficiency
- New approaches to improve hardware robustness (e.g. preventing or limiting corrosion and biofouling in long-term deployments)
- Hyper-maneuverability/improving maneuverability
- Bio-inspired underwater sensors
- Bio-inspired underwater communication approaches
- Control of bio-inspired underwater robots
- Modeling of bio-inspired underwater robots
- Underwater grasping and manipulation
- Applications of learning (deep and/or statistical) to bio-inspired AUVs
Dr. Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bio-inspired AUVs
- underwater locomotion
- hyper-maneuverability
- underwater sensing
- underwater communications
- bio-inspired actuators
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