New Technologies in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
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 (1 May 2023) | Viewed by 2355
Special Issue Editor
Interests: synthetic aperture sonar; autonomous underwater vehicles; oceanographic techniques; sonar; sonar imaging; synthetic aperture radar; bathymetry; carbon capture and storage; echo; image filtering; image resolution; inertial
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have, in the last decades become the standard tool for many maritime applications. They are a safe, cost-effective and reliable alternative to many manned or remotely controlled systems. Typical applications have been seafloor mapping, pipeline inspection and mine counter measures. As the user experience has grown, the demand for improved autonomy, endurance, robustness and sensors has increased rapidly. Lately, there have also been a surge of new applications where AUVs have been used, such as under ice operations, search for sunken debris, sea wreck inspection and submarine surveillance.
To reach the AUVs potential for operating fully autonomously in extreme environments, while simultaneously collecting data with unprecedented resolution and quality, there is a strong demand for further novelty and customization within AUV technology.
This special issue aims to publish new research in the field of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles.
Topics of this special issue will include, but are not limited to:
- Vehicle design
- New applications, both civilian and military
- Multi-static operations
- Robustness, safety and risk management
- Energy supply
- Autonomy and mission planning
- Automated data analysis
- Communication
- Navigation
- Sensors: optical, acoustic, chemical
- Synthetic aperture sonar
- Machine Learning methods for AUVs
Dr. Torstein Olsmo Saebo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- vehicle design
- new applications, both civilian and military
- multi-static operations
- robustness, safety and risk management
- energy supply
- autonomy and mission planning
- automated data analysis
- communication
- navigation
- sensors: optical, acoustic, chemical
- synthetic aperture sonar
- machine learning methods for AUVs
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