World Robotic Sailing Championship 2011
4th International Robotic Sailing Conference
Welcome to the homepage of the World Robotic Sailing Championship (WRSC 2011). Started as a spin-off from the MicroTransat challenge, WRSC promotes the development of robotic sailboats. A series of competitions will test the boats' performance ranging from speed to navigation and endurance.
The accompanying International Robotic Sailing Conference provides an ideal venue to discuss the broad range of scientific problems involved in the desgin and development of autonomous sailboats.
August 16th - August 20th, Lübeck, Germany
Abstract submission and registration are now open!
While sailing tends to be rather expensive, we would like to involve as many teams as possible, particularly from universities. Over the past two years we have built a number of small boats based on the popular racing Micro Magic, which we hope to introduce as an one design class for WRSC. We would like to encourage other teams to start robotic sailing and have summarized our design and components we are using. It still won't be cheap, but with about 1000 EUR and some soldering skills you could get a fully functional boat ...
