Reading List 1: Sailboat Control

An initial list of papers that are most relevant to autonomous sailboat control.

February 7, 2017 - 2 minute read -
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Please note that this list is incomplete and will be revised regularly.

Conference Papers

Steering Control

Kang M., Xu J., Xu J., Du M. (2017) Autonomous Sailboat Local Route Planning. In: Alves J., Cruz N. (eds) Robotic Sailing 2016. Springer, Cham
doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-45453-5_3

H. Saoud, M. D. Hua, F. Plumet and F. Ben Amar, “Routing and course control of an autonomous sailboat,” 2015 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), Lincoln, 2015, pp. 1-6.
doi: 10.1109/ECMR.2015.7324218

F. Plumet, C. Pêtrès, M. A. Romero-Ramirez, B. Gas and S. H. Ieng, “Toward an Autonomous Sailing Boat,” in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 397-407, April 2015.
doi: 10.1109/JOE.2014.2321714

F. Plumet, H. Saoud and Minh-Duc Hua, “Line following for an autonomous sailboat using potential fields method,” 2013 MTS/IEEE OCEANS - Bergen, Bergen, 2013, pp. 1-6.
doi: 10.1109/OCEANS-Bergen.2013.6607961

The following papers cover USVs rather than autonomous sailboats specifically.

Y. Kuwata, M. T. Wolf, D. Zarzhitsky and T. L. Huntsberger, “Safe Maritime Autonomous Navigation With COLREGS, Using Velocity Obstacles,” in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 110-119, Jan. 2014.
doi: 10.1109/JOE.2013.2254214

Rui Song, Yuanchang Liu, Richard Bucknall, A multi-layered fast marching method for unmanned surface vehicle path planning in a time-variant maritime environment, Ocean Engineering, Volume 129, 1 January 2017, Pages 301-317, ISSN 0029-8018
doi: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2016.11.009

Models

Kristian L. Wille, Vahid Hassani, Florian Sprenger, Modeling and Course Control of Sailboats, IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 49, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 532-539, ISSN 2405-8963
doi: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.10.490

Sail Control

Kristian L. Wille, Vahid Hassani, Florian Sprenger, Roll Stabilization Control of Sailboats, IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 49, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 552-556, ISSN 2405-8963
doi: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.10.493

Thesis

Kristian L. Wille, Autonomous Sailboats - Modeling, Simulation, Control, NTNU, 2016

L. Yifei, g. Lin, Non-Isotropic Planar Motion Planning for Sailboat Navigation, 2013

Conference Slides

Though the following are not published papers, they are useful resources.

Adaptive sampling with a fleet of autonomous sailing boats using artificial potential fields. F. Plumet et al

Last updated: February 8th, 2017