Dear colleague,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute a paper to our Special Issue
"*Advances in Underwater Robotics*" in /Robotics/(ISSN 2218-6581).
*Guest Editors*: Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Conte and Prof. Dr. Satoru Yamaguchi
Special Issue Website:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/underwater_robot
*Deadline*: *31 October 2020*
Robotics has long established itself as the key technology for the
exploration and exploitation of the underwater environment, as well as
for all or almost all other activities that are performed under the sea
surface. Underwater robotic vehicles, either remotely operated or
autonomous, and robotic platforms are now commercially available and
widely used in oceanography, environmental monitoring, marine biology,
underwater archaeology, the subsea oil and gas industry, deep sea
mining, marine farming and aquaculture, naval warfare, maritime
transport and communication security, maritime installation maintenance,
and recreational activities at sea.
The importance and richness of resources for the development of human
activities in the underwater environment and its intrinsic hostility
motivate and challenge science and technology to conceive and construct
ever more efficient robotic tools and techniques. In particular, there
is a great demand for advances that may increase the functional and
behavioral autonomy of underwater robots, facilitate human/machine
interaction in the underwater environment, simplify the operability of
complex platforms, reduce costs, and increase safety, reliability and
efficiency.
The objective of this Special Issue is to facilitate the understanding
of challenges and needs and to provide visibility for recent
breakthroughs in underwater robotics. The achievement of this objective
will contribute to improving the state-of-the-art and to promoting
further advances in the area, as well as to open the way to new viable
applications.
In a specific formulation for the underwater environment or for
underwater applications, topics of interest include (but are not limited
to):
Vehicles and drones
Swarm of heterogeneous robotic agents
Cyber–physical systems
Manipulation
Robot sensing and communication
M/M interaction
Planning and mission control
Decision support and safe operation
Educational and recreational robotics
Applications (monitoring, mapping, search and rescue, mine
countermeasures, etc.)
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Conte
Prof. Dr. Satoru Yamaguchi
Guest Editors
If you decide to contribute to this Special Issue, please inform us. The
Editorial Board of Robotics strives to ensure a rigorous and efficient
peer-review process for all manuscripts, in order to ensure high-quality
manuscripts are published in a timely manner (if accepted after the
peer-review process).
Robotics provides an advanced forum for studies related to all aspects
of robotics. It is covered by leading indexing services, including the
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI—Web of Science), Scopus(citescore
1.53), nspec (IET) and DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, and other
databases.
/Robotics/ is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access
by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as
indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors
and their institutes. An Article Processing Charge (APC) of CHF 1000
currently applies to all accepted papers.
In case of questions, please contact us at robot...@mdpi.com.
For further details on the submission process, please see the
Instructions for Authors at the journal website
(http://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/instructions).
We look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Ms. Linda Wang
Managing Editor
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