IRSC 2018
International Robotic Sailing Conference 2018

Table of Contents

• Preface 5
  
  

Vessel Development & Modelling

• Development and Test of an Open-Source Autonomous Sailing Robot with Accessibility, Generality and Extendibility (short paper) 11-19
  Ulysse Vautier, Jian Wan, Ming Dai, Christophe Viel, Robert Hone
• Peruagus - a Transatlantic Autonomous Surface Vessel for the Microtransat Challenge 21-30
  Elettra Ganoulis, Adam Alcantara, Julian Niedermaier, Robert Winn, Nicholas Jones, Antonio Mazzone Tur, James Blake, Nicholas Townsend
• Dynamic Simulation Model for an Autonomous Sailboat (short paper) 31-39
  Moritz Bühler, Carsten Heinz, Simon Kohaut
• Backstepping Control of an Autonomous Catamaran Sailboat 41-50
  Helmi Abrougui, Samir Nejim

Safe Navigation

• Securing Navigation of Unmanned Maritime Systems 53-62
  Tope Omitola, Jon Downes, Gary Wills, Mark Zwolinski, Michael Butler
• ASVTrafficSim: A simulator for Autonomous Surface Vehicle and Manned Vessel Collisions (short paper) 63-67
  Colin Sauze

Manoeuvre & Route Planning

• Reliability informed routing for Autonomous Sailing Craft (short paper) 71-78
  Thomas Dickson, James Blake, David Sear
• Study of Long-term Route Planning for Autonomous Sailboat (short paper) 79-86
  Mingshu Du, Mengqi Kang, Chunxiao Hou, Jinsong Xu
• Tight Slalom Control for Sailboat Robots (short paper) 87-93
  Maël Le Gallic, Joris Tillet, Fabrice Le Bars, Luc Jaulin
• Adaptive Probabilistic Tack Manoeuvre Decision for Sailing Vessels (short paper) 95-103
  Sébastien Lemaire, Yu Cao, Thomas Kluyver, Daniel Hausner, Camil Vasilovici, Zhong-Yuen Lee, Umberto José Varbaro, Sophia M. Schillai
• Isobath Following using an Altimeter as a Unique Exteroceptive Sensor (short paper) 105-110
  Luc Jaulin