Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems - Call for Papers: Topical Issue on Learning-based Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control for Autonomous Marine Vehicles
Guest Editors: Hamid Reza Karimi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Margareta Stefanovic, University of Denver, USA Ning Wang, Dalian Maritime University, China
Opening date for submissions: August 1, 2023 Deadline for submissions: February 29, 2024
Description Autonomous Marine Vehicles (AMVs) are gaining increasing attention in the future of the shipping industry by integrating sensing, actuation and autonomy in system operations in order to explore the environment and perform a desired task in a safe manner. Therefore, the implementation of real-time health monitoring and reliable control mechanisms would be necessary to enhance the resilience and reliability of autonomous marine vehicles in the presence of different failure modes. Consequently, artificial intelligence or machine learning-based data-driven methodologies are critical for the fulfilment of reliability requirements, and resilient control of AMVs. However, as AMVs normally operate on or under the surface of the seawater, the complicated working condition and uncertain disturbance would highly affect the performance and lifespan of these systems, or even damage the device. Consequently, the fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control become increasingly essential for the development of AMVs.
This topical issue provides a platform to share the most recent developments in the fields of condition monitoring, fault diagnosis and resilient control designs for AMVs.
Articles can be submitted through Editorial Manager: https://www.editorialmanager.com/jint/default.aspx
Please indicate that you wish your manuscript to be considered for the topical issue on "Learning-based Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control for Autonomous Marine Vehicles". All submitted papers will be reviewed as soon as they are received.
Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Topical Issue. All papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation by at least two reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor-in-Chief.
Guest Editor Biographies Hamid Reza Karimi is currently a Professor of Applied Mechanics with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. He is the Director of The International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV). His original research and development achievements span a broad spectrum within the topic of automation/control systems, and intelligence systems with applications to complex systems such as wind turbines, vehicles, robotics and mechatronics. He is an ordinary Member of Academia Europa (MAE), Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV), Fellow of The International Society for Condition Monitoring (ISCM), Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Member of the Agder Academy of Science and Letters and also a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Mechatronic Systems, the IFAC Technical Committee on Robust Control, and the IFAC Technical Committee on Automotive Control. Prof. Karimi is the recipient of the 2021 BINDT CM Innovation Award, the 2016-2021 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering, the 2020 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award, August-Wilhelm-Scheer Visiting Professorship Award, JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Research Award, and Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung research Award, for instance. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cyber-Physical Systems, Subject Editor, Technical Editor or Associate Editor for other international journals and Book Series Editor for Springer, CRC Press and Elsevier. Prof. Karimi has also participated as General Chair, keynote/plenary speaker, distinguished speaker or program chair for several international conferences in the areas of Control Systems, Robotics and Mechatronics.
Margareta Stefanovic received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Control Systems, from the University of Southern California. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Denver, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her research focus is on robust adaptive control of uncertain systems, multi-agent systems and distributed control. She serves as an Editor-at-Large for the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Subject Editor for the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, and Associate Editor of ISA Transactions. Prof. Stefanovic was a Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Data Driven Robust Control, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. She also serves as a IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board member, as well as a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Aerospace Control. She is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Prof. Stefanovic has authored (with Prof. Michael Safonov) the monograph ‘‘Safe Adaptive Control: Data-driven Stability Analysis and Robust Synthesis”, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Springer.
Ning Wang is currently a Professor of Marine Engineering with the School of Marine Engineering, Dalian Maritime University, China. He is the director of Dalian Key Laboratory of Green Power Control and Test for Intelligent Ships. His research interests include self-learning autonomy, unmanned (marine) vehicles, and autonomous systems. Dr. Wang was honored with the National High-level Talents Program for Young top-notch Talents, and also won the State Oceanic Administration Outstanding Young Scientists in Marine Science and Technology, the China Ocean Engineering Science and Technology Award, the Liaoning Province Award for Technological Invention, the Liaoning Province Award for Natural Science, the Liaoning Youth Science and Technology Award, the Science and Technology Talents the Ministry of Transport of the P. R. China, and the Youth Science and Technology Award of China Institute of Navigation. He has published more than 150 SCI-indexed journal papers. He is a Fellow of IET, IMarEST, and ISCM. He has been the Leading Guest Editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Neurocomputing, Control Engineering Practice, IFAC Mechatronics, and IET Control Theory & Applications. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, Ocean Engineering, ISA Transactions, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, and IET Electronics Letters. He was recognized as the Highly Cited Researcher 2021 by Clarivate Analytics, and the Highly Cited Chinese Researcher 2020, 2021 in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering by Elsevier.
