Robotic Sailing 2017 : Proceedings of the 10th International Robotic Sailing Conference

Robotic Sailing 2017. This book contains the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 10th International Robotic Sailing Conference which was organized in conjunction with the 10th World Robotic Sailing Championship held in Horten, Norway the 4th-9th of September 2017. The seven papers cover topics of interest for autonomous robotic sailing which represents some of the most challenging research and development areas. The book is divided into two parts. The first part contains papers which focus on the design of sails and software for the assessment and predication of sailboat performance as well as software platforms and middleware for sailboat competition and research. The second part includes algorithms and strategies for navigation and collision avoidance on local, mid- and long range. The differences in approach in the included papers show that robotic sailing is still an emerging cross-disciplinary science. The multitude of suggestions to the specific problems of prediction and simulation of sailboats as well as the challenges of route planning, anti-grounding and collision avoidance are good indicators of science in its infancy. Hence, we may expect the future to hold great advances for robotic sailing.-- Back cover Front Matter ....Pages i-x Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 An Alternative Wing Sail Concept for Small Autonomous Sailing Craft (Paul Miller, Carolyn Judge, Dylan Sewell, Sean Williamson)....Pages 3-17 Correlation of Velocity Prediction Program for Small Autonomous Sailboats (Paul Miller, Peter Hodapp, Ryan Pinch, Jessica Robinson, Camille Tiemann)....Pages 19-30 APASail—An Agent-Based Platform for Autonomous Sailing Research and Competition (Bruno Alves, Bruno Veloso, Benedita Malheiro)....Pages 31-38 A Component-Based C++ Communication Middleware for an Autonomous Robotic Sailboat (Francisco J. Santana-Jorge, Antonio C. Domínguez-Brito, Jorge Cabrera-Gámez)....Pages 39-54 Front Matter ....Pages 55-55 Voter Based Control System for Collision Avoidance and Sailboat Navigation (Jordan Less’ard-Springett, Anna Friebe, Maël Le Gallic)....Pages 57-68 An Attractor/Repellor Approach to Autonomous Sailboat Navigation (Dermot Tynan)....Pages 69-79 Chase, No Straighter: COLREG Compliant Anti-collision Manoeuvres for Crossing Situations (Kjell Ivar Øvergård, Marius Stian Tannum, Per Haavardtun, Jens Kristian Berg Syversen)....Pages 81-91