Special issue on Marine Robotic Systems

A special issue of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Introduction

In the last decade, the marked progress in marine technologies and robotics has led to massive improvements of a new and very active area of applied research: Marine Robotics. The state of the art and some achievements in this area are particularly new. This special issue, organized by the Marine Robotics Technical Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, is intended to address recent advances, related works and future research directions.

Scope, description and more information

Recent advances in sensors, computers, communications, and information systems have provided a solid background for a rapid development of sophisticated technologies in Marine Robotics, yielding to new advanced underwater operations to be carried on. At this stage of development, we are starting to see innovative researches, ranging from installations of underwater data networks to vehicles for autonomous manipulation, to replace many underwater intervention tasks that are today still performed using manned submersibles or Remotely Operated Vehicles in tele-operation mode. Papers of this special issue will be focused on the following main topics:

• AUV for underwater intervention, with particular attention to solution and application examples of autonomous underwater manipulation systems.
• Remotely operated vehicle for underwater intervention: state of the art and solutions for associated robotic manipulation system
• Underwater target localization and tracking for manipulation, rescue, defense
• Localization techniques for AUV vehicles, Mapping, Sensor Data Processing
• Advances in underwater data networking systems for underwater vehicles data communication

Papers should not exceed the maximum length of 8 final typeset pages.

Important dates
Call for papers	March 11, 2009
Deadline for paper submission	June 01, 2009
First review	October 01, 2009
Final review	November 15, 2009
Publication	March 2010

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