TY - BOOK ID - 14306524 TI - Robotic Sailing 2012 : Proceedings of the 5th International Robotic Sailing Conference AU - Sauzé, Colin. AU - Finnis, James. AU - International Robotic Sailing Conference PY - 2013 SN - 3642330835 3642330843 1283911671 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Autonomous robots -- Congresses. KW - Engineering. KW - Sailing -- Technological innovations -- Congresses. KW - Vehicles, Remotely piloted -- Congresses. KW - Autonomous robots KW - Sailing KW - Vehicles, Remotely piloted KW - Mechanical Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Computer Science KW - Mechanical Engineering - General KW - Technological innovations KW - Unmanned vehicles KW - Vehicles KW - Autonomous robotic systems KW - Radio control KW - Artificial intelligence. KW - Computational intelligence. KW - Computational Intelligence. KW - Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). KW - Intelligence, Computational KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Soft computing KW - AI (Artificial intelligence) KW - Artificial thinking KW - Electronic brains KW - Intellectronics KW - Intelligence, Artificial KW - Intelligent machines KW - Machine intelligence KW - Thinking, Artificial KW - Bionics KW - Cognitive science KW - Digital computer simulation KW - Electronic data processing KW - Logic machines KW - Machine theory KW - Self-organizing systems KW - Simulation methods KW - Fifth generation computers KW - Neural computers KW - Construction KW - Industrial arts KW - Technology KW - Remote control KW - Aquatic sports KW - Navigation KW - Boats and boating KW - Yachting KW - Robots KW - Artificial Intelligence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14306524 AB - 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 Robotic Sailing Conference, which is taking place as part of the 2012 World Robotic Sailing Championships. . ER -