IRSC 2018: International Robotic Sailing Conference 2018 University of Southampton Southampton, UK, August 31-September 1, 2018

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. The conference follows the World Robotic Sailing Competition, combining research and practical experience in one event.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. A full paper draft is required by the abstract submission date, June 18th. The following paper categories are welcome:

IRSC 2018 welcomes paper submissions on a range of topics around autonomous surface marine robotics, especially sailing robots.

This year’s IRSC theme is ‘Situational Awareness’, so we especially invite submissions applying this theme on related topics:

• failure detection
• obstacle avoidance
• collaboration with other vessels
• interaction with other parties in the marine environment

Further submission topics include, but are not limited to:

• 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

Committees

Program Committee

• Nick Townsend, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
• Sophia M Schillai, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
• Thomas Klyver, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
• Dr. Nuno Cruz, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Anna Friebe, Åland University of Applied Sciences, Finland
• Paul Miller, US Coast Guard Academy
• Colin Sauze, Aberystwyth University, Wales, United Kingdom
• Benedita Malheiro, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
• Oren Gal, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• Ole Blaurock, Fachhochschule Lübeck, Germany

Organizing committee

• Sophia M Schillai, University of Southampton
• Nick Townsend, University of Southampton

Venue

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Sophia M Schillai (sms4g13@soton.ac.uk).