Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in Extreme Environment

Dear Colleagues,

Autonomous underwater vehicles are effective tools for many maritime applications, for example to support underwater pipe inspection, geological surveys, mine counter measures and many others. Most applications of autonomous underwater vehicles are in benign environments where the risks are known and well controlled. In recent years there has been an increase in the number of deployments of autonomous underwater systems in extreme environments, such as: under ice, at depths greater than 5000 metres or for oil spills contour mapping.

To improve the performance of these vehicles in extreme environments, researchers must develop novel methods to ensure safe operations of AUVs.

This special issue aims to publish novel solutions that enable AUV missions in extreme environments.

We will seek to publish the latest research in the following areas:

• Mission planning and control
• Structural models and structural analysis
• Sensors operation regime for risk control
• Power management and control
• Communications management
• Safety functions for risk control
• Models for mission analysis
• Multiple vehicle mission control and planning
• Probabilistic and stochastic models for risk quantification
• Condition monitoring systems
• Policy and regulation

Developments in these fields will enable AUVs to be systematically deployed in extreme environments. To make the research relevant to the AUV community we encourage authors to use AUV data to evaluate proposed solutions.

Dr. Mario Brito
Dr. Worakanok Thanyamanta
Guest Editors

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• Mission planning and control
• Structural models and structural analysis
• Sensors operation regime for risk control
• Power management and control
• Communications management
• Safety functions for risk control
• Models for mission analysis
• Multiple vehicle mission control and planning
• Probabilistic and stochastic models for risk quantification
• Condition monitoring systems
• Policy and regulation