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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