Design and Application of Underwater Vehicles and Robots
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Automation and Control Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 618
Special Issue Editors
Interests: underwater robotics; gliders; autonomous underwater vehicle (auv); path planning; unmanned surface vehicles; path following; integrated navigation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are a challenging issue of modern robotic science. AUVs are an extremely heterogeneous group of vehicles of various sizes that are able to operate in a submarine environment with a certain degree of autonomy. In some applications, an AUV is more often referred to as an unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV). Underwater gliders are a subclass of AUVs.
The AUV category includes simple robots of a few decimetres to large complex systems that are several meters in length, and that are equipped with energy autonomy and controlled without cables.
This Special Issue will accept high-quality articles that contain original research results as well as review articles, and will allow readers to learn more about technologies related to the potentiality of AUVs, including, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Autonomous underwater vehicles;
- AUV design;
- AUV control;
- AUV guidance, navigation and path planning;
- AUV attitude estimation;
- Underwater target tracking;
- Vehicle modeling and simulation;
- Cooperative underwater vehicle manipulator systems;
- Intelligence and autonomy for underwater robotic vehicles;
- Underwater glider design and applications.
Prof. Dr. Tomás Salgado-Jiménez
Dr. Alfonso Gómez-Espinosa
Guest Editors
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