Advances in Underwater Robot Technology, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 38
Special Issue Editors
Interests: under water robots; biologically inspired robots; medical robots; soft robots
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the success of the previous Special Issue “Advances in Underwater Robot Technology” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/machines/special_issues/underwater_technology), we are pleased to announce the next in the series, entitled “Advances in Underwater Robot Technology, 2nd Edition”.
With the rapid development of scientific ocean exploration, underwater robots have become one of the most important tools for exploiting and utilizing marine resources. When compared with autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), the core feature of bionic small-scale robots refers to the capability to operate missions such as tracking ocean creatures and the ability of monitoring the marine environment in narrow underwater spaces. Therefore, these small-scale biomimetic robots have been receiving increasing interest from academia.
It is clear that bioinspired methods are becoming increasingly important in the face of the complexity of today’s demanding applications. Biological inspiration in underwater robotics is leading to complex structures with sensory–motor coordination, in which learning often plays an important role in achieving adaptation.
This Special Issue will focus on the theoretical and technological challenges of evolutionary transformation from biological systems to intelligent underwater robots. All aspects of underwater robotics and biologically inspired robots are welcome.
Dr. Liwei Shi
Prof. Dr. Yanlin He
Dr. Xingyuan Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- underwater robots
- biomimetics and biologically inspired robots
- automation, control systems, simulation techniques, and control applications
- sensor design, multisensor data fusion, and wireless sensor networks
- computer vision and image processing
- MEMS, nanotechnology, NEMS, and micro/nanosystems
- multirobot systems and distributed robotics
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