Marine Autonomous Vehicles: Design, Test and Operation—Second Edition

Dear Colleagues,

The arrival of the Ocean Century has been stimulated by various needs, such as marine resources, seabed topography, marine environment, and marine rights, and marine observation and exploration technology has significantly developed, especially the technology of marine autonomous vehicles.

Now, the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering is pleased to announce a new Special Issue, entitled Marine Autonomous Vehicles: Design, Test and Operation—Second Edition. This is based on the great success of our previous Special Issue with the same title: Marine Autonomous Vehicles: Design, Test and Operation.

This Special Issue, titled Marine Autonomous Vehicles: Design, Test and Operation, welcomes contributions from experts and scholars in the field of marine autonomous vehicles design, test, and operation, including, but not limited to, the following main aspects:

1. The design, test, and operation of marine autonomous vehicles (including deep-sea-manned submersibles, autonomous underwater vehicles, wave gliders, underwater gliders, intelligent buoys, submarine buoys, surface drift buoys, and new concept underwater vehicles);
2. Unit technologies supporting the marine autonomous vehicles’ design, testing, and operation (new energy power, intelligent control, navigation and positioning, etc.);
3. The design, test, and operation of ocean sensing technology (acoustic, optical, electromagnetic, etc.) and their applications;
4. Marine autonomous vehicles cluster/networking technology;
5. Theory, methods, technologies, and applications of ocean big data processing and machine learning.

Prof. Dr. Yanhui Wang
Prof. Dr. Shaoqiong Yang
Guest Editors

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• deep-sea manned submersible
• autonomous underwater vehicle
• wave glider
• underwater glider
• intelligent buoy
• submarine buoy
• surface drift buoy
• new concept underwater vehicles

• Marine Autonomous Vehicles: Design, Test and Operation in Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (10 articles)