Robotic Sailing 2013 Proceedings of the 6th International Robotic Sailing Conference /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bars, Fabrice Le (Editor), Jaulin, Luc (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Robotics.; Automation.; Robotics and Automation.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

An autonomous sailboat robot is a boat that only uses the wind on its sail as propelling force, without remote control or human assistance to achieve its mission. This involves autonomy in energy (using batteries, solar panels, turbines...), sensor data processing (compass, GPS, wind sensor...), act...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Hardware design
• Part II Energy and power management strategies
• Part III Modeling, simulation, control, and stability analysis
• Part IV High level control architectures and algorithms.