[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.
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SWEET!!!! Just what I need to move my goods from malaysia to australia ;)
That is an extremely cool project!
Pretty well documented too.
Well done!
Search for “navcom” on youtube and you can see mine :) the URL with the source code is in the url thingie above. My system is microcontroller based and has been put on two boats and a plane.
if you can’t see the url: http://67.15.245.21/portfolio/navcom_ai/
And here I thought the fun part was actually sailing the boat and enjoying being on the water. shows how much I know.
@ Heem: the fun part in _this place_ is hacking stuff.
Shows how much you know about the places you hang out in. Good luck with that.
strider_mt2k: well said :)
If your intereted in this then you might be interested in the Microtransat, a race of unmanned sailing boats from portugal to the caribbean which is taking place in october this year.