Autonomous Catamaran
posted Apr 20th 2008 7:22am by Will O'Brienfiled under: gps hacks, misc hacks

[Gabriel] put together an impressive writeup of his autonomous catamaran, Atlantis(PDF). It was certainly done as an academic project, but there’s a thorough explanation of the math logic behind the control systems. The heart of the boat was a waterproofed Pentium laptop with a CAN bus parallel interface used to talk to everything on-board. Sensors included GPS, wind, hull speed and rudder angle. In case the site can’t handle the load, I’ve mirrored the 1.4MB PDF here.

SWEET!!!! Just what I need to move my goods from malaysia to australia ;)
Posted at 8:41 am on Apr 20th, 2008 by HeBD