Recent Advances in Underwater Vehicles
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics and Automation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 1567
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, robot technology has become an essential technology. Especially in the maritime field, it is a crucial technology due to the unique environmental constraints posed by water, making it increasingly necessary for ocean exploration and the development of marine resources. Submarine robots have made significant advancements over the past 60 years. Starting in the 1950s to 1970s in the defense sector and transitioning to the private sector, particularly in the offshore industry, during the 1980s and 1990s. Subsequently, they began to be employed in various fields, such as marine survey, exploration, rescue missions, and patrolling, expanding their operational range to deeper and more distant ocean areas. This progress has been made possible by the collaboration of various fields of technology, including design, sensing, manufacturing, communication, and navigation technologies. This Special Issue aims to introduce the recent advances in underwater vehicles. The issue welcomes all kinds of underwater vehicles, such as ROV, AUV, UG, and UAUV, and all the research and review topics associated with underwater vehicles, such as novel design, navigation and control, planning, and decisions.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are all welcome, on recent theoretical and experimental works. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Underwater robot
- Unmanned underwater vehicles (ROV, AUV, etc.);
- Underwater sensing, multi-modal sensor fusion, and manipulation for UUVs;
- Vehicle guidance, navigation, path planning in UUVs;
- Control and modeling for UUVs;
- Cooperative underwater vehicle manipulator systems;
- Networked UUVs;
- Intelligence and autonomy for underwater robotic vehicles;
- Machine Learning methods for underwater vehicles;
- Unmanned aerial and underwater vehicle;
- Ocean robotics;
- Underwater detection;
- Underwater robot vision;
- CFD for underwater robots;
Dr. Seongyeol Yoo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- underwater robots
- underwater sensors
- navigation
- machine learning for underwater robots
