News

News

The WRSC 2016 will take place in Viana do Castelo, Portugal from the 5th to the 10th of September 2016. Check out the official website on http://www.wrsc2016.com/!

Welcome

WRSC (World Robotic Sailing Championship) and IRSC (International Robotic Sailing Conference) will be held in the city of Brest from 2 to 6 September 2013   

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ENSTA Bretagne (ex ENSIETA) will organize in Brest, in the beginning of September 2013, the WRSC (World Robotic Sailing Championship) and IRSC (International Robotic Sailing Conference), an international and annual marine robotics competition and conference. Originally designed for autonomous sailboats, the competition will be opened this year also to motorboats and will propose tasks such as station, speed in different conditions, accuracy, obstacle avoidance, target tracking, endurance, cooperation…


How to

How to make your robot?

Don’t know how to make your first robot for the WRSC? Check out that list of hardware items…

Actuators

SEABOTIX thrusters, RMG sailwinch 380 EH, TONEGAWA SEIKO big servos…

Motor controllers for thrusters

ROBBE Rokraft 120, ROBBE NavyControl 540R…

IO interfaces

IOIO for Android-compatible smartphone or tablet, Labjack U3 for computers, Pololu servo controllers for computers, Arduino…

Sensors

Webcams, weather station FURUNO WS200 (includes GPS, compass, wind sensor…), compass XSENS MTi (complete AHRS), compass HMC6352, compass HMC6343…

Embedded computers

Arduino (can include XBee, Wifi, GPS, compass), smartphone or tablet (often includes Wifi, compass, GPS), netbook, Raspberry Pi, PC/104, Mini-ITX…

Communication

XBee, high-range Wifi Ubiquiti Bullet2 HP…

Publications and other links

  http://www.microtransat.org/

  http://www.roboticsailing.org/

  http://www.ensta-bretagne.fr/jaulin/paper_jaulin_irsc12.pdf

  http://www.ensta-bretagne.fr/jaulin/paper_lebars_irsc12.pdf

  http://www.ensta-bretagne.fr/jaulin/paper_checking.pdf

  http://www.ensta-bretagne.fr/lebars/buggy_android_club_robotique.pdf