Underwater Acoustic Communication and Marine Robot Networks
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: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 655
Special Issue Editors
Interests: non-destructive evaluation; structural health monitoring; condition monitoring; machine learning; digital twins
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Interests: underwater acoustic communication and network; UWA channel estimation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We can announce the third instalment of the Special Issue series on “Underwater Acoustic Communication and Networks”. In the first two instalments, 17 high-quality papers were accepted and published. Given recent developments and the rapidly growing interest in marine robotic networks, the third Special Issue in the series has been titled "Underwater Acoustic Communication and Marine Robot Networks". Marine robots are increasingly being used to carry out varied activities on the sea surface and underwater, such as seabed surveys, water column assessments, offshore infrastructure inspection, marine habitat monitoring, etc. Underwater acoustic communication systems are integral to the operation of marine robot networks. Therefore, seamless operation between acoustic communication systems and marine robots is required.
High-quality papers are encouraged for publication, particularly those directly related to the various topics mentioned below. Furthermore, studies on the development of related novel techniques employed in these research topics are encouraged. Potential topics include the following:
- Marine robotic systems and networks;
- Autonomous navigation systems;
- Underwater sensing;
- Underwater acoustic communication and networks;
- Direct to satellite sensor data transmission;
- Channel estimation and equalisation;
- Signal modulation and demodulation;
- Encoding and decoding;
- MAC and routing protocol;
- Ad hoc networks;
- Acoustic modem design and implementation;
- Underwater unmanned platforms and observatories;
- Simulation and experimentation;
- Deep learning-driven underwater acoustic communication;
- Big data;
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Prof. Dr. Mayorkinos Papaelias
Prof. Dr. Feng Tong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- marine robotic systems and networks
- underwater acoustic
- MAC
- big data
- deep learning
- artificial intelligence
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