Trends in Research and Development of Aquaculture Robots for Seabed Crops
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Electronic Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 3967
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Interests: control; robotics; parallel robots; haptic interfaces and teleoperation; mechanical design; multibody dynamics
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Dear Colleagues,
Today, robots applied to aquaculture are an emerging and necessary technology; however, to be effective, they require an active and permanent presence, just as they already do in fish farms. The concept of robotic aquaculture systems as permanent colonies is scarce, and there is no evidence of them—except for robots applied for specific tasks that involve, for example, mollusk harvesting, fish feeding, and monitoring of oceanic and biological variables. Industrialized aquaculture work requires the permanent activity of the means of production in an environment hostile to human life, and must consequently be carried out with automated machines, such as robots and specific mechanisms. Although ROV and AUV technologies have existed for a long time, these systems have been developed for other purposes, such as inspection, data collection, and very specific intervention actions, disasters, etc.; moreover, they are extremely expensive with highly specialized logistics. On the other hand, the concept of robotic permanence for sowing and harvesting food, and for the conservation and repair of marine ecosystems in an immense environment, proposes a different approach in the design of new, more resistant, and more durable underwater robotic systems. These must be energetically autonomous, with specialized robotic components (concentrators, drones, handling robots) that must collaborate with each other with defined objectives, to produce food and maintain the automation and coordination of their tasks. The development of new devices and aquaculture work tools that must be integrated into robots has implications for artificial intelligence in the control of multi-robot service systems.
Dr. Roque Saltaren
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- agricultural robot technology
- multi-robot systems
- artificial intelligence
- intelligent equipment
- new devices and aquaculture work tools
- seabed crops
- innovation
- development
