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