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Robotic Sailing

Proceedings of the 4th International Robotic Sailing Conference

  • Recent research in Robotic Sailing Proceedings of the 4th World Robtotic Sailing championship with the accompanying International Robotic Sailing Conference WRSC/IRSC

  • WRSC/IRSC held in Lübeck in August 2011

  • Written by leading experts in the field

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Table of contents (14 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. History and Recent Developments in Robotic Sailing

      • Roland Stelzer, Karim Jafarmadar
      Pages 3-23
  3. Robotic Sailboats

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
    2. Sailing without Wind Sensor and Other Hardware and Software Innovations

      • Jan Sliwka, Jeremy Nicola, Remi Coquelin, Francois Becket de Megille, Benoit Clement, Luc Jaulin
      Pages 27-38
    3. MOOP: A Miniature Sailing Robot Platform

      • Colin Sauzé, Mark Neal
      Pages 39-53
    4. Breizh Spirit, a Reliable Boat for Crossing the Atlantic Ocean

      • Richard Leloup, Frédéric Le Pivert, Sébastien Thomas, Gabriel Bouvart, Nicolas Douale, Henry De Malet et al.
      Pages 55-69
    5. A New Class for Robotic Sailing: The Robotic Racing Micro Magic

      • Alexander Schlaefer, Daniel Beckmann, Maximilian Heinig, Ralf Bruder
      Pages 71-84
  4. System Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
    2. A Systems Engineering Approach to the Development of an Autonomous Sailing Vessel

      • Bradley E. Bishop, Joseph Bradshaw, Cody Keef, Nicholas Taschner
      Pages 87-99
    3. Using ARM7 and μC/OS-II to Control an Autonomous Sailboat

      • Michael Koch, Wilhelm Petersen
      Pages 101-112
    4. Simulating Sailing Robots

      • Colin Sauzé, Mark Neal
      Pages 113-124
  5. Collision Avoidance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
    2. Rule-Compliant Navigation with Qualitative Spatial Reasoning

      • Diedrich Wolter, Frank Dylla, Arne Kreutzmann
      Pages 141-155
    3. Global Data Storage for Collision Avoidance in Robotic Sailboat Racing – the World Server Approach

      • Nikolaus Ammann, Florian Hartmann, Philipp Jauer, Julia Krüger, Tobias Meyer, Ralf Bruder et al.
      Pages 157-166
  6. Localization and Route Planning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
    2. A Digital Interface for Imagery and Control of a Navico/Lowrance Broadband Radar

      • Adrian Dabrowski, Sebastian Busch, Roland Stelzer
      Pages 169-181
    3. Route Planning for a Micro-transat Voyage

      • Peter Gibbons-Neff, Paul Miller
      Pages 183-194
    4. A Rule-Based Approach to Long-Term Routing for Autonomous Sailboats

      • Johannes Langbein, Roland Stelzer, Thom Frühwirth
      Pages 195-204

About this book

While sailing has a long tradition, both as a means of transportation and as a sport, robotic sailing is a fairly new area of research. One of its unique characteristics is the use of wind for propulsion. On the one hand, this allows for long range and long term autonomy. On the other hand, the dependency on changing winds presents a serious challenge for short and long term planning, collision avoidance, and boat control. Moreover, building a robust and seaworthy sailing robot is no simple task, leading to a truly interdisciplinary engineering problem.

These proceedings summarize the state of the art as presented at the International Robotic Sailing Conference 2011. Following an overview of the history of autonomous sailing a number of recent boat designs is presented, ranging from small one-design boats to vessels built to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Subsequently, various aspects of system design and validation are discussed, further highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of the field. Finally, methods for collision avoidance, localization and route planning are covered.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Robotics and Cognitive Systems, University of Luebeck, Lübeck, Germany

    Alexander Schlaefer

  • Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik, University of Applied Sciences Luebeck, Lübeck, Germany

    Ole Blaurock

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Robotic Sailing

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 4th International Robotic Sailing Conference

  • Editors: Alexander Schlaefer, Ole Blaurock

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22836-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-22835-3Published: 15 July 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50762-9Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-22836-0Published: 15 July 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 205

  • Topics: Robotics and Automation, Artificial Intelligence

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eBook USD 169.00
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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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