Underwater Robotics: Theory, Methods and Applications
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Systems & Control Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2024 | Viewed by 1128
Special Issue Editors
Interests: target searching and path planning of underwater vehicles
Interests: robotics motion control
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the continuous deepening of ocean exploration, humans will face more and more extreme underwater operations that cannot be completed. Underwater robots have emerged as important tools for understanding and developing the ocean due to their unmanned, intelligent, and clustered capabilities. They have broad application prospects in fields such as oil and mineral exploration, geomorphic surveying, scientific research observation, aquaculture, pier dam inspection, ship cleaning, diving entertainment, underground pipeline inspection, military and national defense, etc. In order to better explore the latest breakthrough and innovative research achievements, current challenges, and corresponding solutions of underwater robots, Electronics plan to launch a Special Issue entitled "Underwater Robotics: Theory, Methods and Applications". Electronics welcomes contributions from experts, scholars, and researchers from relevant research fields.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
Topic
(1) Design and modeling of a new type of underwater robot
(2) Heterogeneous multi-sensor system perception of the underwater environment
(3) Image processing and recognition of the underwater environment
(4) Acoustic and optical image fusion in the underwater environment
(5) Communication networking technology for surface/underwater environment
(6) Navigation positioning and trajectory planning for underwater environments
(7) Formation and obstacle avoidance control of underwater robots
(8) Control of underwater robots based on deep reinforcement learning
(9) Underwater robot grasping and search technology
(10) Collaborative positioning and control of underwater robots
Dr. Xiang Cao
Dr. Yunhu Zhou
Dr. Juqi Hu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- design and modeling
- perception
- image processing and recognition
- control
- communication networking
- navigation positioning
- planning
