IRSC2017

IRSC provides researchers with the opportunity to present and exchange ideas on their work on autonomous surface marine robotics. IRSC proceedings present the cutting edge of work in a variety of fields related to robotic sailing. IRSC 2017 conference proceedings will be published by Springer.

Robotic Sailing

Robotic sailing offers the potential of long range and long term autonomous wind propelled, solar or wave-powered carbon neutral devices. Robotic sailing devices could contribute to monitoring of environmental, ecological, meteorological, hydrographic and oceanographic data. These devices can also be used in traffic monitoring, border surveillance, security, assistance, goods transport, and rescue.

The dependency on changing winds and sea conditions presents a considerable challenge for short and long term route and stability planning, collision avoidance and boat control. Building a robust and seaworthy sailing robot presents a truly complex and multi-disciplinary challenge for boat designers, naval architects, systems/electrical engineers and computer scientists.

Since 2004, competitions such as Sailbot, World Robotic Sailing Championship and Microtransat have sparked an explosion in the number of groups working on autonomous sailing robots. Despite this interest, there are still many unsolved challenges to build truly autonomous sailing robots that can operate reliably in open waters.

Submission Guidelines

IRSC 2017 welcomes paper submissions on a range of topics around autonomous surface marine robotics (especially sailing robots), including but not limited to the list of topics below.

List of Topics:

• Applications of autonomous marine robots

• Sensors and actuators for autonomous sailing

• Hardware and software organisation

• System development and validation

• Route planning, navigation and optimisation

• Control architectures and algorithms

• Mechanical design and advanced materials

• Collision avoidance, boat-to-boat communication

• Machine learning and adaptation

• Energy and power management

• Robotic boats in teaching

• Legal issues for autonomous vessels

• Modelling, simulation, control and stability analysis

• Naval architecture

• Marine engineering

Programme Committee

• Kjell Ivar Øvergård, University College of Southeast Norway (program committee chair)
• Cedric Pradalier, GeorgiaTech Lorraine
• Fabrice Le Bars, École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA) Bretagne, France
• Jose Carlos Alves, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Diedrich Wolter, University of Bremen, Germany
• Benedita Malheiro, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
• Alexander Schlaefer, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
• Noureddine Bouhmala, University College of Southeast Norway
• Oren Gal, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• Michael Schukat, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
• Paul Miller, US Naval Academy, United States of America 
• Colin Sauze, Aberystwyth University, Wales, United Kingdom
• Halvor Schøyen, University College of Southeast Norway
• Jan Kåre Bording, University College of Southeast Norway
• Kostia Roncin, École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA) Bretagne, France
• Jorge Cabrera, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
• Ole Blaurock, Fachhochschule Lübeck, Germany
• Erik Maehle, University of Lübeck, Germany
• Anna Friebe, Åland University of Applied Sciences, Finland
• Bjørn-Olav Holtung Eriksen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Andreas Flaåten, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Nuno A. Cruz, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Benoit Clement, École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA) Bretagne, France

Organizing committee

• Marius Tannum, USN
• Cathrine Eyde, USN

Venue

The conference will be held at the University College of Southeast Norway, campus Vestfold, Raveien 197, 3199 Borre. 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Professor Kjell Ivar Øvergård (koe@usn.no)

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