Robotic sailing offers the potential of wind propelled vehicles
which are sufficiently autonomous to remain at sea for months at a
time. These could replace or augment existing oceanographic
sampling systems, be used in border surveillance and security or
offer a means of carbon neutral transportation. To achieve this
represents a complex, multi-disciplinary challenge to boat
designers and naval architects, systems/electrical engineers and
computer scientists.
Since 2004 a series of competitions in the form of the Sailbot,
World Robotic Sailing Championship and Microtransat competitions
have sparked an explosion in the number of groups working on
autonomous sailing robots. Despite this interest the longest
distance sailed autonomously remains only a few hundred miles. Many
of the challenges in building truly autonomous sailing robots still
remain unsolved.
These proceedings present the cutting edge of work in a variety
of fields related to robotic sailing. They will be presented during
the 5th International Robtoic Sailing Conference, which is taking
place as part of the 2012 World Robotic Sailing Championships.
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