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This paper presents a platform for real and simulated autonomous
sailing competitions, which can also be used as a research tool to test and
assess navigation algorithms. The platform provides back-end services – competition
server, boat modelling and data storage – and supports external
browsers and software agents as front-end clients. The back-end adopts the
Multi-Agent System (MAS) paradigm for the internal modelling of sailing
boats and offers a Web Service Application Programming Interface (API)
for the external software agents and a Web application for Web browsers.
As a whole, the platform offers tracking (real competitions) and simulation
(simulated competitions) modes. The testing and assessment of navigation
algorithms and boat models correspond to private simulated competitions.
In simulation mode, the back-end internal boat agent implements a simplified
physical model, including the weight, sail area, angle of the sail and
rudder, velocity and direction of the wind and position and velocity of the
hull, whereas the front-end external boat agent implements the navigation
algorithm on the team side, ensuring the privacy of strategic knowledge. The
Web application allows the configuration and launching of competitions, the
registration of teams and researchers, the uploading of boat physical features
for simulation as well as the live or playback viewing of real and simulated
competitions. The simulation mode is illustrated with the help of a case study.
The proposed platform, which is open, scalable, modular and distributed, was
designed for the research community to prepare, run and gather data from
real and simulated autonomous sailing competitions.
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Proceedings of the 10th International Robotic Sailing Conference
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Springer International Publishing