Applications of Marine Vehicles in Maritime Environments

Dear Colleagues,

Marine vehicles have gained significant attention in recent years, leading to their use in various applications for surveillance, monitoring, inspection, and delivery, among others. For their efficient adoption and operation in dynamic and complex environments, particularly without human intervention, innovative solutions should be investigated for guidance, navigation, and control. This Special Issue aims at collecting papers on new findings and review papers dealing with the automated operation and applications of marine vehicles. Potential topics of interest for publication include the following:

• Unmanned surface or underwater vehicles, autonomous surface or underwater vehicles, remotely operated vehicles, or underwater gliders;
• Swarms of unmanned marine, cooperative surface, and underwater vehicles;
• Guidance, navigation, and path planning;
• Vehicle model tests, applications, case studies, field trials, and experimental results;
• Machine learning methods and their applications in marine vehicles;
• Path following, path planning, trajectory planning, and automatic collision avoidance;
• Intelligent and adaptive control architecture;
• Obstacle detection and avoidance systems.

Dr. Dimitrios V. Lyridis
Dr. Charis Ntakolia
Guest Editors

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