Microtransat Mini Challenge Winners Announced
Submitted by dsk on Sat, 2007-09-22 11:11.
Microtransat Challenge, Aberystwyth, September 2007.
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The mini Microtransat Challenge, a grand challenge for small autonomous sailboats, completed a few weeks ago. The organizers just released information on the winners. RoBoat, an Australian boat, won the mini challenge managing to sail autonomously for a full 24 hours! The teams are now preparing for the actual Challenge that will see several sailboats autonomously navigate across the Atlantic. See below for the complete announcement of winners.
We are very pleased to announce that the overall winners of this event
were the RoBoat team from Austria. This team demonstrated true
Autonomous sailing for the full 24 hour period of the challenge and a
very robust control system. The physical craft, however, will almost
certainly need some serious modification for a Transatlantic challenge.
All the teams should be commended for their dedication and hard work.
It was unfortunate that, due to software issues, the judges were unable
to witness the full potential of the ENSICA boat from France.
The Aberystwyth boat was considered to have the greatest potential in
the context of the overall challenge, to cross the Atlantic
autonomously. They achieved a very respectable 19 hours autonomous
sailing.
The MAST team from Canada are commended for physical craft design and
build quality. This craft sailed very well in calmer conditions and a
larger version could do very well in a Transatlantic challenge.
Congratulations to all the competitors, and good luck with your
modifications, preparations and fundraising for the main event!
Melanie Landamore and Julian Eastwood
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Melanie Landamore
Research Associate
Marine Science and Technology
University of Newcastle, NE1 7RU
fully autonomous is sweet.
fully autonomous is sweet. but you've got to be terrified of the backup routines for when the gps goes down though. not knowing where you are (aka accelerometer guestimation) is scary scary shit.
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crossing the Atlantic is
crossing the Atlantic is unimaginable. Hats off to RoBoat team! When is the next Microtransat Challenge scheduled? May I know the terms and conditions for participating in this event?
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This is so interesting. If i
This is so interesting. If i understand this correctly, they just let the boats out and greet them at the the Caribbean.
It is like around the world in 30 days.
Here is the big deal:
can we build bigger boats like this, and then let them go out and harvest the solar and wing energy and then bring the energy back to us?
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