[robocup-worldwide] [Journals] - [Robotics] - call for paper - Special Issue "Advances in Underwater Robotics"

[Linda Wang]

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 robotics at 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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