Special Issue on State of the Art in Maritime Autonomous Surface and Underwater Vehicles


Special Issue Guest Editors: Terry Huntsberger, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Michael Keegan, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport Division & Robert Brizzolara, Office of Naval Research


This special issue focuses on state-of-the-art developments in maritime autonomy and control for autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The maritime domain poses a number of challenges for the development of autonomy algorithms for these types of vehicles. Among the these challenges are the oftentimes low bandwidth or no communication links with a control station, no easy access to GPS information for localization in the case of AUVs, widely varying sea-state conditions, possible limited sensing capabilities due to power and volume constraints, and strong currents and winds. A previous (June 2007) Special Issue of the Journal of Field Robotics on AUVs concentrated on platforms, monitoring and characterization of maritime environments, and vehicle health management.  The goal of this special issue is to publish outstanding results in the maturation and testing of the autonomy technologies for both autonomous sea surface and underwater vehicles that are currently being fielded through collaborations between university, industry and military. The concentration of the special issue will be on systems that have been tested in the field.


List of topics

  1. •Autonomy for coordinated operations between autonomous maritime vehicles

  2. •Real-time, onboard optimization of planning & execution

  3. •Autonomy for heterogeneous maritime vehicles

  4. •Adaptive and/or variable levels of autonomy

  5. •Maritime image understanding for domain awareness

  6. •Higher-level autonomy algorithms in the decision-making and control loops

  7. •Sensors and sensor processing algorithms/fusion for maritime vehicle autonomy

  8. •Obstacle avoidance, and other GNC functions for autonomous navigation

  9. •Human-machine interfaces for control of single and multiple maritime autonomous vehicles

  10. •Biologically inspired approaches to intelligent autonomy for autonomous maritime vehicles

  11. •Collaborative control of multiple heterogeneous autonomous vehicles

  12. •Fleet management of autonomous vehicles operating under heterogeneous constraints on control and communication 


Authors are encouraged to submit multimedia attachments to the paper (data sets, models and videos) as a means of enhancing the submission.


Important Dates:

  1. •January 15, 2010 – Submission of manuscripts

  2. •April 1, 2010 – Reviews sent to the authors

  3. •June 1, 2010 – Final manuscripts due for publication


For comments, suggestions, or requests, please send email to Terry Huntsberger (terry.huntsberger@jpl.nasa.gov)





 

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