ABOUT THE BOOK
Underwater Robotics: Engineering and Applications is a comprehensive guide suitable for maritime professionals, marine scientists, security strategists, robotics technology enthusiasts, and innovative engineers navigating the complex undersea domain using latest mechanical systems, electronics and AI/ML computing.
Underwater robotics is the interdisciplinary field extending human capabilities into the vast, inaccessible ocean depths. This book provides comprehensive, step-by-step introduction to entire lifecycle and ecosystem of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs). It is an essential resource on UUVs detailing:
• Applications across Defence, Scientific Research, and Industrial domains.
• Strategic roadmaps and execution plans of major navies.
• AUV design approaches, balancing requirements for energy, propulsion, and autonomy.
• Complexities of underwater sensors, navigation, communication and autonomy
• Case studies of successful AUVs
• Journey from design to development to trials and operations
Indigenous developments in India have been described, with suggestions for developing this ecosystem further.
Explore how advanced uncrewed systems and collaborative networks can serve as enablers and force multipliers to revolutionise maritime security and underwater survey operations globally.
ABOUT Author
Commodore Amit Ray, PhD, is a Naval Architect in the Indian Navy. He has been engaged in design, construction, repairs and trials of warships and submarines for more than 25 years. He currently leads the Navy’s Submarine Design directorate. He has been actively engaged in design of autonomous underwater systems, and in technology development through various start-ups and R&D institutions.
His academic qualifications include B.Tech (Hons) in Naval Architecture & Shipbuilding from Cochin University of Science & Technology (1999), PG DIIT (Naval Construction) from IIT Delhi, M.Tech (Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture) from IIT Kharagpur, M.Phil. (Defence & Strategic Studies) from Mumbai University and Ph.D (Submarine Hydrodynamics) from IIT Delhi in 2010.
His awards include the Bristow Prize of CUSAT, Gold & Silver Medals of DIIT(NC) from IIT Delhi, Director’s Gold Medal from IIT Kharagpur (2006) and ‘Medal of Distinction’ from the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, UK (2010). At the Naval War College, he was awarded the Gold Medal in Technical Management Course (2011) and Silver Medal in the Naval Higher Command Course (2019).
He has authored more than 30 technical papers in journals and conferences. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Naval Architects (INA) of India. His first book Tracing the Undersea Dragon: Chinese SSBN Programme and the Indo-Pacific was published in 2021.