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Unmanned Marine Vehicles II

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: closed (1 March 2022) | Viewed by 14123
The first successful Special Issue "Unmanned Marine Vehicles" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jmse/special_issues/unmanned_mar_vehicles

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Angelo Odetti

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Institute of Marine Engineering, Italian National Research Council, Genova, Italy
Interests: marine robotics design; marine vehicles design; marine propulsion; environmental monitoring
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Dr. Gabriele Bruzzone

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Institute of Marine Engineering, Italian National Research Council, Genova, Italy
Interests: marine robotics; marine data acquisition systems; polar robotics; polar data acquisition systems
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Dr. Roberta Ferretti

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Institute of Marine Engineering, Italian National Research Council, Genova, Italy
Interests: environmental monitoring; marine robotics applications; data management
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Water covers nearly 70% of the Earth’s surface, and throughout history, oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, etc., have been a fundamental source of food, energy, transport, and commerce. Notwithstanding this, due to the risky and difficult environment, more than 80% of the oceans are nowadays still unexplored and unmapped. In recent decades, the use of robotic vehicles has become increasingly widespread for helping and substitution of human operators working at sea. In particular, unmanned marine vehicles (UMVs) have allowed for the automation of many dangerous tasks that were previously carried out manually, either underwater or on the surface. In fact, UMVs are the key tools that will allow human beings to explore, operate, protect, and carry out the sustainable exploitation of oceans in the near future. However, there continues to be significant challenges in this field: Nowadays, there is a stronger and stronger need for increased autonomy to perform tasks over large spatial and temporal durations, the demand to carry out increasingly complex operations in an intelligent way, in addition to an ever-growing need for UMVs to cooperate and interact with the environment, other robots, or human beings to succeed in performing very complicated tasks.

The aim of this Special Issue of JMSE is to welcome papers that address new developments in the field of unmanned marine vehicles. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs);

- Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs);

- Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs);

- Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs);

- Unmanned semi-submersible vehicles (USSVs);

- Unmanned ships;

- Gliders;

- Swarms of unmanned marine vehicles.

Special attention will be devoted to papers including original works which are supported by experimental results, especially by at-sea trials.

Dr. Angelo Odetti
Dr. Gabriele Bruzzone
Dr. Roberta Ferretti
Guest Editors

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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.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs)
  • Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)
  • Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs)
  • Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs)
  • Unmanned semi-submersible vehicles (USSVs)
  • Unmanned ships
  • Gliders
  • Swarms of unmanned marine vehicles

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Multi-Platforms and Multi-Sensors Integrated Survey for the Submerged and Emerged Areas
by Ali Alakbar Karaki, Marco Bibuli, Massimo Caccia, Ilaria Ferrando, Sara Gagliolo, Angelo Odetti and Domenico Sguerso
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2022, 10(6), 753; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10060753 - 30 May 2022
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In this paper, the state-of-the-art concerning new methodologies for surveying in coastal areas in order to obtain an efficient quantification of submerged and emerged environments is described and evaluated. This work integrates an interdisciplinary approach involving both geomatics and robotics and focuses on [...] Read more.
In this paper, the state-of-the-art concerning new methodologies for surveying in coastal areas in order to obtain an efficient quantification of submerged and emerged environments is described and evaluated. This work integrates an interdisciplinary approach involving both geomatics and robotics and focuses on definition, implementation, and development of a methodology to execute integrated aerial and underwater survey campaigns in shallow water areas. A preliminary test was performed at Gorzente Lakes near Genoa (Italy), to develop and integrate different survey techniques, enabling working in a smarter way, reducing costs and increasing safety for the operators. In this context, Remote Sensing techniques were integrated with a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) carrying an aerial optical sensor for photogrammetry and with an ASV (Autonomous Surface Vehicle) expressly addressed to work in extremely shallow water with underwater acoustic sensors (single echo sounder). The obtained continuous seamless DSM (Digital Surface Model) for the entire environment was reconstructed by the combination of different sensing systems by limiting reliance on the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) support. The obtained DSM was displayed in a 3D model leading to the evaluation of the water flow volume and rendering of 3D visualization. Full article
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Development of a Modular Software Architecture for Underwater Vehicles Using Systems Engineering
by Carlos A. Zuluaga, Luis M. Aristizábal, Santiago Rúa, Diego A. Franco, Dorie A. Osorio and Rafael E. Vásquez
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2022, 10(4), 464; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10040464 - 25 Mar 2022
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This paper addresses the development of a modular software architecture for the design/construction/operation of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), based on systems engineering. First, systems engineering and the Vee model are presented with the objective of defining the interactions of the stakeholders with [...] Read more.
This paper addresses the development of a modular software architecture for the design/construction/operation of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), based on systems engineering. First, systems engineering and the Vee model are presented with the objective of defining the interactions of the stakeholders with the software architecture development team and establishing the baselines that must be met in each development phase. In the development stage, the definition of the architecture and its connection with the hardware is presented, taking into account the use of the actor model, which represents the high-level software architecture used to solve concurrency problems. Subsequently, the structure of the classes is defined both at high and low levels in the instruments using the object-oriented programming paradigm. Finally, unit tests are developed for each component in the software architecture, quality assessment tests are implemented for system functions fulfillment, and a field sea trial for testing different modules of the vehicle is described. This approach is well suited for the development of complex systems such as marine vehicles and those systems which require scalability and modularity to add functionalities. Full article
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Thrust Characteristics of Ducted Propeller and Hydrodynamics of an Underwater Vehicle in Control Motions
by Jiaming Wu, Yizhe Dou, Haiyan Lv, Chenghua Ma, Le Zhong, Shunyuan Xu and Xiangxi Han
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2021, 9(9), 940; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9090940 - 30 Aug 2021
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A numerical technique to simulate the hydrodynamic behavior of ducted propellers attached to an underwater vehicle traveling under the mutually interacting flow fields of the vehicle and the propellers is proposed; the hydrodynamic performance of the propellers and the hydrodynamic loading on the [...] Read more.
A numerical technique to simulate the hydrodynamic behavior of ducted propellers attached to an underwater vehicle traveling under the mutually interacting flow fields of the vehicle and the propellers is proposed; the hydrodynamic performance of the propellers and the hydrodynamic loading on the main body of the vehicle when it is in different kinds of motion is investigated numerically. In the research, 3D geometric models of the duct, propeller, and main body of the vehicle are first constructed according to their geometrical features. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technique based on the hybrid algorithm of dynamic mesh-nested sliding mesh is applied to solve the Navier–Stokes equations that govern the fluid motion around the duct, propeller, and main body of the vehicle when it is in motion. These equations are solved numerically with the CFD code Fluent. With the proposed numerical simulation technique, the hydrodynamic characteristics of the thrusts generated by the ducted propellers and the loading on the main body in the vehicle system under the mutually interacting flow fields are observed. The results of our numerical simulation indicate that the hybrid algorithm of dynamic mesh-nested sliding mesh can simulate multiple degrees of freedom of motion in underwater vehicle systems. In different motion states, the main body exerts a significant influence on the investigated flow fields; during the vehicle motions, negative wakes are formed on both sides of the main body, which lead to a decrease in the thrusts generated by the propellers on both sides. The thrust of the middle propeller is greater than that of the normal single one because of the obstructing effect in the tunnel caused by the main body. Full article
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A Method for Supervisory Control of Manipulator of Underwater Vehicle
by Alexander Konoplin, Vladimir Filaretov and Alexander Yurmanov
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2021, 9(7), 740; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9070740 - 4 Jul 2021
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A novel method for supervisory control of multilink manipulators mounted on underwater vehicles is considered. This method is designed to significantly increase the level of automation of manipulative operations, by the building of motion trajectories for a manipulator working tool along the surfaces [...] Read more.
A novel method for supervisory control of multilink manipulators mounted on underwater vehicles is considered. This method is designed to significantly increase the level of automation of manipulative operations, by the building of motion trajectories for a manipulator working tool along the surfaces of work objects on the basis of target indications given by the operator. This is achieved as follows: The operator targets the camera (with changeable spatial orientation of optical axis) mounted on the vehicle at the work object, and uses it to set one or more working point on the selected object. The geometric shape of the object in the work area is determined using clouds of points obtained from the technical vision system. Depending on the manipulative task set, the spatial motion trajectories and the orientation of the manipulator working tool are automatically set using the spatial coordinates of these points lying on the work object surfaces. The designed method was implemented in the C++ programming language. A graphical interface has also been created that provides rapid testing of the accuracy of overlaying the planned trajectories on the mathematically described surface of a work object. Supervisory control of an underwater manipulator was successfully simulated in the V-REP environment. Full article
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Modular Hardware Architecture for the Development of Underwater Vehicles Based on Systems Engineering
by Luis M. Aristizábal, Carlos A. Zuluaga, Santiago Rúa and Rafael E. Vásquez
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2021, 9(5), 516; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9050516 - 11 May 2021
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This paper addresses the development of a modular hardware architecture for the design/construction/operation of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), based on systems engineering. The Vee model is first presented as a sequential process that emphasizes the validation processes with stakeholders and verification plans [...] Read more.
This paper addresses the development of a modular hardware architecture for the design/construction/operation of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), based on systems engineering. The Vee model is first presented as a sequential process that emphasizes the validation processes with stakeholders and verification plans in the development and production stages of the ROV’s life cycle. The conceptual design process starts with the mapping of user requirements to engineering specifications, using the House of Quality (HoQ), a quality function deployment tool that allows executing a functional-division-based hardware design process that facilitates the integration of components and subsystems, as desired for modular architectures. Then, the functional division and hardware architectures are described, and their connection is made through the proposed system architecture that sets the foundation for the definition of a physical architecture, as it involves flows that connect abstract functions with a real context. Development and production stages are exemplified through the design, construction, and integration of some hardware components needed for the remotely operated vehicle Pionero500, and the operational stage briefly describes the first sea trials conducted for the ROV. Systems engineering has shown to be a very useful tool for the development of marine vehicles and marine engineering projects that require modular architectures. Full article
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