This paper presents the computing infrastructure used in an autonomous unmanned smallscale sailboat. The system is based on a FPGA and includes custom designed interfaces for the various sensors and actuators used in the sailboat. The central processing unit is a 32- bit 50MHz RISC microprocessor implemented as a soft IP core in the FPGA. The computing system runs uClinux, a simplified version of the popular Li...
In this paper, we discuss some of the potential applications of small scale autonomous sailboats. The use of autonomous sailboats for ocean sampling has been tentatively proposed before, but there have been minor efforts towards the development and deployment of actual prototypes, due to a number of technical limitations and significant risks of operation. We show that, currently, most of the limitations have b...
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