Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editorial: navigation, guidance and control of unmanned marine vehicles -- Nonlinear modelling, identification and control of UUVs -- Guidance laws, obstacle avoidance and artificial potential functions -- Behaviour control of UUVs -- Thruster control allocation for over-actuated, open-frame underwater vehicles -- Switching-based supervisory control of underwater vehicles -- Navigation, guidance and control of the Hammerhead autonomous underwater vehicle -- Robust control of autonomous underwater vehicles and verification on a tethered flight vehicle -- Low-cost high-precision motion control for ROVs -- Autonomous manipulation for an intervention AUV -- AUV 'r2D4', its operation, and road map for AUV development -- Guidance and control of a biomimetic-autonomous underwater vehicle -- Seabed-relative navigation by hybrid structured lighting -- Advances in real-time spatio-temporal 3D data visualisation for underwater robotic exploration -- Unmanned surface vehicle -- game changing technology for naval operations -- Modelling, simulation and control of an autonomous surface marine vehicle for surveying applications Measuring Dolphin MESSIN -- Vehicle and mission control of single and multiple autonomous marine robots -- Wave-piercing autonomous vehicles -- Dynamics, controls and coordination of underwater gliders.