The maritime domain is of an enormous interest to our society, from the economy to health, and security. Operating in the maritime domain, on the other hand, is dangerous, expensive, and most of the time at low execution speed. Unmanned systems are in many ways suited to such environments, but the successful realisation of maritime autonomous vehicles requires an overarching design and development cycle, starting from design and modelling of unmanned systems, to control and implementation exhibiting a reliable and explainable level of autonomy and self-organization amidst the sudden and possibly extreme disturbances occurring in the uncertain and dynamic maritime environment.

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Autonomy in the Maritime Domain
• Chapter 3: Advances in Remote Estimation and Control with Quantised Communications for Networked Systems subject to Severe Bandwidth Constraints
• Chapter 4: Collaboration of Multiple Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems
• Chapter 5: Propelling URSULA: Bioinspired Undulating Fins for Robotic Squid in Underwater Manipulation and Intervention Missions Laboratory Tests and Measurements
• Chapter 6: Application of the Swarm-Capable Micro-AUV MONSUN for Monitoring of Vegetation and Water Quality in Lakes
• Chapter 7: Reference Modeling for Automatic Target Recognition
• Chapter 8: Surrogate Model Framework for Explainable Autonomous Behaviour in Maritime Robotic Systems
• Chapter 9: Towards a structured framework for control performance and safety assessment for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship
• Chapter 10: Summary, Conclusions, and Future Work