Quote: >>In this passage we demonstrate the ability of a fully autonomous sailing boat to perform complex navigations in real water fields and we want to compare technical decision strategies to others in this project. Sensors, navigation, controls and power supply are minimized to 3 kgs, an intelligent software operates the maneuvers and handles the peculiarities of sailing. Different agents get in this distributed intelligent system different tasks. The Roboat functions as corporeal technical testingtool and object of comparison for the exploration and visualisation of decision processes. 8th and 9th July 2006 French aeronautics university ENSICA (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Constructions Aéronautiques) organized a regatta for autonomous controlled sailboats at the lake St. Nicolas De La Grave (near to Toulouse), the first competition of this kind in europe. Fully automatic sailboats no more than three meters long and controlled by onboard computers had to navigate a certain course. The jury payed special attention on 'tacking' - sailing against the wind. InnoC's team (Raphael Charwot, Adrian Dabrowski, Matthias Hofmann, Karim Jafarmadar, Ira Lee Kuhn, Tobias Pröll, Roland Stelzer) competed successful. Five boats took part, InnoC's boat was the only competitor whose control and navigational system was completely on the boat and worked smoothly. Boat and system worked properly, even under difficult circumstances - during the competition wind speeds up to 20 knots (more than 10 m/s) have been registered. Next step will intend to cross the Irish Sea in the course of the second Microtransat August 2007.<< Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
