Advancements in Underwater and Surface Robotic Vehicles: Applications, Designs, and Future Directions
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics and Automation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2024) | Viewed by 119
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Interests: intelligent control robotics and cybernetics robots; intelligent machines autonomous systems; computer vision
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Interests: artificial intelligence; robotics; biomimetics; optimization; evolutionary algorithms
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV) and Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) have been at the forefront of robotics research in recent years. Addressing enduring challenges, such as energy efficiency, renewable energy harvesting, and integrating advanced electric power plants, including hydrogen-based propulsion, is paramount. Autonomy, perception, and environmental awareness remain significant obstacles that must be overcome to achieve ubiquitous use across civil and military applications.
Moreover, emerging vehicle configurations have recently gained attention, for instance, the Aerodynamically Alleviated Marine Vehicles (AAMV), including Wing-In-Ground (WIG) vessels and Surface-Effect-Ships (SES). These configurations present complex hydrodynamic and aerodynamic behaviours, requiring further research to enable autonomous operation.
This Special Issue addresses these topics, emphasising real-world applications of these vehicles and showcasing their capabilities through rigorous field testing.
Prof. Dr. Sergio Dominguez
Prof. Dr. Claudio Rossi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV)
- unmanned surface vehicles (USV)
- aerodynamically alleviated marine vehicles (AAMV)
- guidance, navigation, and control (GNC)
- self-awareness
- situational awareness
- perception, slam, sensor fusion
- field robotics
- multirobot systems, swarms
