Navigation, Modelling and Control of Multiple Marine Autonomous 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 (20 February 2023) | Viewed by 9578
Special Issue Editor
Interests: AI; multi-vehicle systems; intelligent control; task allocation and path planning; scheduling; networked decision-making
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the development of unmanned technologies and electronics, marine autonomous vehicles have become the basis for performing a wide range of missions in aquatic environments characterized by numerous perturbations and uncertainties, complex dynamics of objects acting in them, and the presence of hard-to-reach areas. Joint implementation of complex commands by a coordinated group of vehicles can help to accomplish mission goals in an efficient and robust manner, significantly reduce the mission time and its cost, and help to gather more reliable information about the environment. The harsh conditions of marine environments and the need to consider joint motion constraints pose new challenges requiring the development of advanced motion planning and control methods that allow vehicles to cooperate with each other intelligently and adaptively in order to achieve shared mission goals.
This Special Issue aims to gather recent advances on navigation, guidance, and control of multiple marine autonomous vehicles acting in cooperation. High-quality research papers describing new approaches to cooperative motion planning, localization, and control of multi-vehicle systems, supported by theoretical and experimental studies, are encouraged.
Prof. Dr. Igor Bychkov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- multi-vehicle systems
- cooperative path-following and trajectory tracking
- formation control and stability
- path planning and obstacle avoidance
- cooperative navigation and SLAM
- cooperative situation awareness
- collaborative dynamic mission planning
- task allocation, scheduling, and route planning
- guidance, navigation, and control system design