Underwater Robot
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics and Automation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 2752
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With an increase in the population and economic development, human beings need to develop marine resources to meet the needs of economic development, and underwater robot technology is the key technology used in marine exploration. The use of underwater robot has been flourishing in various areas, such as oil and gas geophysical exploration, geotechnical surveys, marine infrastructure installation and monitoring, aquaculture and fisheries, environments data acquisition, and underwater archaeology.
Simultaneously, the boom of artificial intelligence technology in recent years is pushing underwater robots to become more autonomous and intelligent. This Special Issue intends to preserve advances in underwater robots and provide a comprehensive overview of future solutions from various computational and engineering aspects.
This Special Issue will publish high-quality and original research papers, in the overlapping fields of:
- Intelligent and autonomous underwater robot systems;
- Underwater vehicles and manipulators;
- Design of underwater manipulators systems;
- Underwater robot navigation and guidance;
- Underwater human-machine interaction;
- Machine learning and artificial intelligent applications;
- Medium and long distance communication for underwater robot;
- Underwater image enhancement/restoration for underwater robot system;
- Underwater binocular vision system;
- Visual sensor system for underwater robot detection and tracking;
- Underwater sensor network;
- Applications of autonomous and remotely operated underwater robots.
Prof. Dr. Fei Yuan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- underwater robot
- artificial intelligence
- navigation and guidance
- autonomy
- human-machine interaction
- underwater communication
- binocular vision system
- underwater image enhancement
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