In recent decades, wireless power transfer (WPT) has gained significant interest from both
academic and industrial experts. It possesses natural electrical isolation between transmitter …

This paper reviews the development of underwater docking technology and compares the
advantages and disadvantages of various docking methods. Docking station types, acoustic …

With the developments in underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) technology,
UWOC can be used in conjunction with autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for high …

Ocean biodiversity loss is being driven by several anthropogenic threats and significant
efforts are required to halt losses and promote healthy marine ecosystems. The …

One of the main limiting factors in deployment of marine robots is the issue of energy
sustainability. This is particularly challenging for traditional propeller-driven autonomous …

The underwater environment poses a complex problem for developing control systems for
underwater manipulators. Modeling the system is a complicated and costly process due to …

Ocean exploration has become one of the most important strategies for a sustainable
development for our world. To better understand the ocean and make an efficient use of its …

The motion and large environmental loads experienced by riser cables connected to floating
offshore wind turbines put them at higher risk of failure than grounded sections of cable. We …

During the implementation of time-consuming tasks such as underwater observation or
detection, AUV has to face a difficult and urgent problem that its working duration is greatly …

Successful applications of complex vision-based behaviours underwater have lagged
behind progress in terrestrial and aerial domains. This is largely due to the degraded image …