Motion Control and Path Planning of Marine Vehicles—3nd Edition
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 March 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ship motion control; ship attitude control; servo control system
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Interests: unmanned surface vehicles; ship motion control; path planning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on the motion control and path planning of marine vehicles. Recently, more and more marine vehicles have been designed and used on the surface, underwater, and seabed for detection, rescue, transportation, etc. In order to ensure the implementation of these applications, the intelligence and energy-saving property indicators of their motion control and path planning policies should be satisfied at high levels.
This Special Issue is seeking high-quality original contributions, including technical papers that address the main research challenges related to the motion control and path planning of marine vehicles. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Modeling and control of vessels and unmanned marine vehicles.
- Path planning of vessels and unmanned marine vehicles.
- Navigation systems of vessels and unmanned marine vehicles.
- Identification and estimation in vessels and unmanned marine vehicles.
- Cooperative and coordinated control of vessels and unmanned marine vehicle swarms.
- Multidevice collaborative operation of deep-sea mining systems.
- Ice-breaking operation of arctic vessels.
- Unmanned marine vehicle swarm design and mission applications.
- Other control and path planning applications in marine systems.
Articles from academia are welcome. This Special Issue aims to advance the fields of motion control and the path planning of marine vehicles, as well as related fields.
Prof. Dr. Bing Li
Dr. Bowen Xing
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- Marine vehicle
- Unmanned ocean vehicle
- Deep-sea mining system
- new energy ships
- arctic vessel
- unmanned marine vehicle swarm
- motion control
- path planning
- autonomous
- learning and AI
- cooperation and coordination
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Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Coverage Path Planning Strategy for Deep-Sea Mining Vehicle Cluster under Spatial Constrains
Title: Heading Control of USV Based on Fractional-Order Model Predictive Control
Title: USV hybrid path planning with kinematic constraints and COLREGS based on improved APF-RRT and DWA
Title: Research on trajectory planning method of unmanned ship based on risk prediction in complex environment
Title: Research on dynamic deployment strategy of Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) Cluster System under water pollution monitoring task
Title: Trajectory tracking with spatio temporal specifications by counterexamples guided learning approach
Title: An Optimal-Path-Planning Method for Unmanned Surface Vehicles Based on a Novel Group Intelligence Algorithm
