Overview and control strategies of autonomous sailboats—A survey

Y Tipsuwan, P Sanposh, N Techajaroonjit - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent decades, marine robots have become increasingly important for a wide range of
applications in bodies of water, including oceans, gulfs, and lakes. One type of unmanned …

Event-triggered robust adaptive control for path following of the URS in presence of the marine practice

J Li, G Zhang, X Zhang, W Zhang - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This note investigates an event-triggered robust adaptive control for path following of the
unmanned robot sailboat (URS) by employing the proportional integral sliding mode …

An engineering design approach for the development of an autonomous sailboat to cross the atlantic ocean

T Akiyama, JF Bousquet, K Roncin, G Muirhead… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the past decade, interest in autonomous vessels significantly increased as the
technology improved, especially in the automotive industry. Unlike cars, ships travel in a wild …

MPC-Based Collaborative Control of Sail and Rudder for Unmanned Sailboat

S Liu, Z Yu, T Wang, Y Chen, Y Zhang… - Journal of Marine Science …, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the traditional motion control method of an unmanned sailboat, the sail and rudder are
divided into two independent controllers. The sail is used to obtain the thrust and the rudder …

Neural predictive tracking control of catamaran model sailboat for situation awareness applications

I Astrov, A Udal - 2020 IEEE 24th International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Adding artificial intelligence into the control of autonomous vehicles has become a task of
steeply rising importance in development of new transportation systems and cyber-physical …

Wind force model and adaptive control of catamaran model sailboat

I Astrov, A Udal, H Mõlder, T Jalakas… - 2022 8th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of algorithms of optimal control of autonomous vehicles (AV) has become
a high priority task in order to ensure safe and energy effective use of different types of AVs …

Sailboat test arena (star): A remotely accessible platform for robotic sailboat research

Q Sun, W Qi, C Liang, B Lin, F Maurelli… - Journal of Marine Science …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Autonomous sailing robots have attracted much attention, but challenges arise due to the
sailing tests require an environment with both aerodynamic and hydrodynamic fields and a …

Adaptive Learning and Optimization of High-Speed Sailing Maneuvers for America's Cup

R Rodriguez, Y Wang, J Ozanne… - Journal of …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper presents an adaptive control strategy to optimize the sailing maneuvers of an
AC75 foiling sailboat competing in America's Cup. Foiling yachts have nonlinear, high …

Energy optimization of automatic hybrid sailboat

Z Zhang, Z Yao, Q Sun, H Qian - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs) provide an effective way to actualize applications
such as environment monitoring, search and rescue, and scientific researches. However, the …

Towards an Autonomous Sailboat Navigation Control Architecture

A Araújo, R Guerra, V Mankina, P Preux… - 2024 Latin American …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned surface vessels of sailboat type are becoming important platforms for tasks such
as surveillance and environmental monitoring. However, making them fully autonomous …