Autonomous sailboats: an emerging technology for ocean sampling and surveillance

Autonomous sailboats are robotic vessels that use wind energy for propulsion and control the sails and rudders without human intervention. The use of autonomous sailboats for ocean sampling has been tentatively proposed before, but there have been minor efforts towards the development and deployment...

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Main Author: Nuno A. Cruz (author)
Other Authors: José Carlos Alves (author)
Format: book
Language:eng
Published: 2008
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10216/71535
Country:Portugal
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