Bionic Design and Control of Underwater Robots
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: 5 May 2026 | Viewed by 83
Special Issue Editor
Interests: bioinspired underwater robots; swarm robotic fish; intelligent control; autonomous navigation; reinforcement learning; computer vision
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Dear Colleagues,
Over millions of years, evolution has shaped aquatic organisms and achieved highly adaptive behaviors and efficient locomotion. Their agile swimming abilities offer valuable inspiration for improving the performance of underwater robots. Bionic underwater robots are an interdisciplinary fusion of biomimetics, fluid dynamics, mechanics, electronics, control, and computing, with research covering bioinspired propulsion principles, prototype design and optimization, actuation methods, motion control, multisensory information processing, autonomous navigation, practical applications, and so on. Advances in this field are driving the development of more practical, efficient, and flexible propulsion and control mechanisms for underwater robotic systems.
This Special Issue aims to gather the latest contributions in the design and control of bionic underwater robots. Researchers are welcome to submit original contributions that review and investigate the latest developments and challenges in the field of bionic underwater robotics.
Dr. Jincun Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bionic underwater robots design
- materials, structures, and actuators of bionic underwater robots
- modeling of bionic underwater robots
- advanced control of bionic underwater robots
- learning methods for bionic underwater robots
- sensing and perception for bionic underwater robots
- autonomous navigation of bionic underwater robots
- swarm bionic underwater robots
- applications of underwater robots
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