VAIMOS : Realization of an autonomous robotic sailboat

Olivier Menage (1) , Aymeric Bethencourt (2) , Patrick Rousseaux (3) , Sèbastien Prigent. (4)

1 LPO - Laboratoire de physique des océans
2 Lab-STICC_ENSTAB_CID_IHSEV ; OSM
3 IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
4 LERPAC - Laboratoire Environnement Ressources Provence Azur Corse

This paper demonstrates the relevance of using autonomous sailboats for the realization of long missions (several weeks) devoted to collecting measurements and observation of the marine environment at low cost. Ultimately, such a system should be used in place or in addition to current conventional systems such as drifting buoys or oceanogra…c ships. The paper introduces the electrical, mechanical and algorithmic realization of the sailboat and then demonstrates its robustness through several missions.

Mots clés: autonomous robotic sailboat; human-machine interface; observation; measurements; embedded systems

Domaines: Automatique / Robotique

Olivier Menage, Aymeric Bethencourt, Patrick Rousseaux, Sèbastien Prigent.. VAIMOS : Realization of an autonomous robotic sailboat. IRSC 2013 - International Robotic Sailing Conference, Sep 2013, Brest, France. pp.25-36, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-02276-5⟩. ⟨hal-00914017⟩