The Control and Navigation of Autonomous Surface Vehicles
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: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 19
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the rapid advancement of modern control and navigation technologies, autonomous surface vehicles (USVs) are evolving into more integrated, interoperable, efficient and adaptive systems, suitable for executing a wide range of complex ocean tasks. Recently, researchers have increasingly used intelligent control and advanced navigation technologies, including autonomous perception and positioning, real-time decision-making, mission planning and collaborative formation, to deal with the real-world challenges characterized by high uncertainty, variability and unpredictability. The goal of this Special Issue is to enhance the reliability, robustness and accuracy of control and navigation, endowing USVs with autonomous perception, adaptive intelligent decision-making and control capabilities and further facilitating their applications. We invite researchers from both academia and industry to submit original articles in the following areas:
- Advanced sensing technology;
- Multi-source data fusion;
- Autonomous positioning and navigation;
- Obstacle avoidance and path planning in dynamic ocean environments;
- Application of artificial intelligence in USVs;
- Intelligent decision-making framework design in complex ocean environments;
- Adaptive methods and high-precision control in USVs;
- Self-organizing network technology in USVs;
- Heterogeneous USV collaborative control;
- Simulation and modeling of USVs.
Prof. Dr. Defeng Wu
Dr. Zhiming Yuan
Dr. Haitong Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- autonomous surface vehicles (USVs)
- autonomous positioning and navigation
- intelligent decision-making
- adaptive control
- collaborative control
- sensing technology
- artificial intelligence
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