Innovative Strategies for Offshore Sustainable Renewable Energy Systems: Integrating Robotics, Control, and Automation

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, there has been an important international movement towards reducing dependence on fossil fuels, with greater emphasis placed on the promotion of sustainable renewable technologies for electricity generation in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Offshore sustainable renewable energy systems (OSRES) comprise a complicated variety of advanced equipment, structures, and workforce. The identification of potential applications and research directions of robotics, control, and automation and the exploration of the obstacles and challenges of the integration of robotics, control, and automation in offshore sustainable renewable energy systems will prove highly valuable to the industrial community, research institutes, universities, and governments, with the objective to improve the knowledge needed by this sector. However, there is still a lot of room for improvement for the correct and efficient exploitation of these types of installations.

This Special Issue aims to showcase the latest research achievements, findings, and ideas in the integration of robotics, control, and automation in offshore sustainable renewable energy systems. Researchers are invited to contribute original research articles, as well as review articles that summarize the latest developments and ideas in these technologies.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Sensor systems for control and automation in OSRES: sensors and sensor networks, intelligent sensors, sensor uncertainty for fault tolerant control, and distributed multimodality sensor networks for control and automation;
• Control for OSRES: adaptive control, robust control, active disturbance rejection, control, complex systems, identification and estimation, nonlinear systems, intelligent systems, sensor networks, delay systems, precision motion control, control applications, etc.;
• Automation for OSRES: man-machine interactions, process automation; network-based systems, intelligent automation, planning, scheduling, coordination, etc.;
• Robotics: modelling and identification; remotely operated underwater vehicles, mobile sensor networks, perception systems, visual serving, robot sensing, data fusion, etc.;
• Process-based control for OSRES: sensor development, system design, and control development;
• Control and automation systems for OSRES: fault detection and isolation, sensing and data fusion, artificial intelligence methods, guidance control systems, industry, marine applications, linear and nonlinear control systems, signal and image processing, etc.;
• Industrial informatics for OSRES: embedded systems for monitoring and controlling.

Prof. Dr. Rafael Morales
Dr. Eva Segura
Guest Editors

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• offshore sustainable renewable energy systems (OSRES)
• robotics, control, and automation in OSRES
• offshore technologies
• sustainable utilization
• sustainable development

This Special Issue aims to showcase the latest research achievements, findings, and ideas in the integration of robotics, control, and automation in offshore sustainable renewable energy systems. Researchers are invited to contribute original research articles, as well as review articles that summarize the latest developments and ideas in these technologies.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Sensor systems for control and automation in OSRES: sensors and sensor networks, intelligent sensors, sensor uncertainty for fault tolerant control, and distributed multimodality sensor networks for control and automation;
• Control for OSRES: adaptive control, robust control, active disturbance rejection, control, complex systems, identification and estimation, nonlinear systems, intelligent systems, sensor networks, delay systems, precision motion control, control applications, etc.;
• Automation for OSRES: man-machine interactions, process automation; network-based systems, intelligent automation, planning, scheduling, coordination, etc.;
• Robotics: modelling and identification; remotely operated underwater vehicles, mobile sensor networks, perception systems, visual serving, robot sensing, data fusion, etc.;
• Process-based control for OSRES: sensor development, system design, and control development;
• Control and automation systems for OSRES: fault detection and isolation, sensing and data fusion, artificial intelligence methods, guidance control systems, industry, marine applications, linear and nonlinear control systems, signal and image processing, etc.;