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# IRSC 2018
International Robotic Sailing Conference 2018

### Proceedings of the 11th International Robotic Sailing Conference

### Southampton, United Kingdom, August 31st - September 1st, 2018.

Edited by

### Sophia M. Schillai *
Nicholas Townsend *

* University of Southampton, Faculty of Engineering, Southampton SO16 7QF, United Kingdom

This volume is entirely composed of short papers.
A single file version of the proceedings can be found on the conference website: http://roboticsailing.org/2018/proceedings.

## 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

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