Autonomous sailboat navigation for short course racing

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 604-614

  Stelzer, Roland ^a,b   Pröll, Tobias ^b  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Austrian Association for Innovative Computer Science   (Austria)

Author keywords

Autonomous sailing; Leeway drift compensation; Optimum beating; Route optimisation; Sailboat navigation

Indexed keywords

BOATS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SAILING VESSELS; SHIP MODELS; TARGETS; THEOREM PROVING;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; ELSEVIER (CO); IN ORDER; OPTIMISATION; SHORT COURSES; SIMULATION RESULTS; TIME DERIVATIVES; WIND CONDITIONS;

FISH;

EID: 44949243142     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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