Recent Advances and Trends in Marine Vehicles, Automation and Robotics
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 November 2023) | Viewed by 9581
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Interests: optical wireless communication; intelligent reflecting surfaces; unmanned aerial vehicles; NOMA; WPT; IoUT; 5G/6G
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Interests: robotics; Internet of Things (IoT); wireless sensor networks (WSNs); underwater communication and localization; underwater sensor networks (USNs); AI; deep learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, there has been a significant progress in marine vehicles, robotics and autonomous systems, motivated by the impact of increasingly economical, industrial, scientific, and environmental surface and underwater applications. These promising technologies, including USVs (unmanned surface vehicles), ROVs (remotely operated vehicles), AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles), underwater gliders and marine animal robots, have become the standard tools due to their applicability in underwater observation, deep-sea exploration, underwater mining, environmental data acquisition, geotechnical surveys, renewable energies, multi-robot coordinated and cooperative missions for mapping, underwater intervention and manipulation, aquaculture and fisheries, aquaculture and fisheries, marine infrastructure installation and monitoring, navigation, surveillance, reconnaissance, security, offshore inspection, and transportation. These innovative technologies have shown their high potential to transform our ways of exploring, intervening, and using the marine environment, from the sea-surface to the sea-bed. The expanding utility of these intelligent vehicles offers several appealing advantages for marine experts in terms of minimal risk, reduced operational cost, high reliability, enhanced efficiency, increased intelligence, decrease in environmental footprint, and enlarged application scope. Marine vehicles such as autonomous underwater vehicles are reliable, cost-efficient, safe alternatives to several manned or remotely controlled vehicles. Due to their effective operation in dynamic, harsh, hostile, and complex underwater environments, specifically without human intervention, innovative approaches must be investigated for autonomy, control, navigation, localization, estimation, perception, and guidance. Particularly, enhancing these vehicles’ autonomy, robustness, endurance, collision avoidance, path planning, data fusion, target detection, task management, and sensing necessitates the use of novel artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning techniques. Moreover, there is a dire need to develop advanced and intelligent mission approaches for single and cooperative control of multiple vehicles to undertake more complex operations. In this Special Issue, innovative and frontier research to address aforementioned aspects is included.
This Special Issue aims to highlight ongoing research activities on the advancement of underwater vehicles or robotics that can be applied in practical operations and enhance the automation level of marine vehicles. We will provide a forum to bring together latest research innovations from both practitioners and leading researchers from diversified interests to unlock the potentials and address breakthrough novelties of marine vehicles and robotics. Our focus is to seek high quality original-contributions, technical papers reporting on potential uncertainties related to control and autonomy marine vehicles, reviews and surveys dealing with the latest developments, ongoing research activities, recent breakthroughs, theoretical works, cutting-edge approaches for experimental validations, real-time missions, and applications and challenges of marine vehicles and robotics. Novel and unique techniques, as well as advances in existing techniques, that focus on the future of marine vehicles and robotics are invited for peer review publication. We encourage engineering and science articles on instrumentation or data analysis of marine vehicles contributing to a better understanding of the marine environment. We wish to present a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the modeling, control, navigation, cooperation, guidance, state estimation and localization of marine vehicles and robotics. Submissions on simulations, real-time sea trials, and testbed applications are strongly considered in this Special Issue. Potential topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- New challenges and trends in marine robotics;
- Innovative underwater robotics for ocean observance;
- Advanced technologies for maritime archaeology;
- Marine vehicles and robotics for smart maritime transportation;
- Marine vehicles for intelligent, smart, and safe marine navigation;
- Maritime autonomous surface ships;
- Application of marine vehicles in maritime safety;
- Autonomy and control of marine vehicles;
- Applications of marine vehicles in maritime environments;
- Underwater communications for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs);
- Motion control, localization, navigation, and path planning of marine vehicles;
- Advances in autonomous underwater robotics based on machine learning;
- Novel techniques and equipment for underwater robots;
- Autonomous marine vehicle operations;
- Advances in underwater robots for intervention;
- Marine vehicles for maritime internet of things;
- Design, testing, and operation of marine vehicles.
Dr. Syed Agha Hassnain Mohsan
Dr. Inam Ullah
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- marine autonomous system
- ocean monitoring
- communication
- marine vehicles
- automation operations
- underwater robotics
- navigation and guidance
- motion planning
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