Call for Papers

IRSC welcomes paper submissions on a wide range of topics around autonomous sailing, including (but not limited to):

actuators for autonomous sailing
applications of autonomous sailing boats
collision avoidance and boat to boat communication
control architectures and algorithms
energy and power management
hardware and software organisation
legal issues for autonomous vessels
machine learning and adaptation
mechanical design and advanced materials
robotic boats in teaching
route planning and optimization
sensors for autonomous sailing

The conference proceedings will be published with Springer. There is no specific form for the abstract other than a two (A4) page limit. However, the final paper needs to be formatted according to the Springer proceedings template.

Abstract Submission

Please submit your two page abstracts by email to sailing@rob.uni-luebeck.de!

Deadlines

April 1st, 2011: submission of two page extended abstracts
April 29th, 2011: notification of acceptance
May 31st, 2011: submission of final papers (up to fifteen pages)
May 31st, 2011: presenting author registration
July 1st, 2011: registration for conference

Tentative Schedule

Organization

General Co-Chairs

Alexander Schlaefer, University of Luebeck, Germany
Uwe Krohn, University of Applied Sciences, Luebeck, Germany

Program Committee

José C. Alves - Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Ralf Bruder, University of Luebeck, Germany
Nuno A. Cruz - Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Erik Maehle, University of Luebeck, Germany
Benedita Malheiro, ISEP - IPP, Portugal
Paul Miller, USNA, United States of America
Mark J. Neal, University of Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Cedric Pradalier, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland
Colin Sauze, University of Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Roland Stelzer, Innoc, Austria

Student Co-Organizers

Niko Ammann, University of Luebeck, Germany
Florian Hartmann, University of Luebeck, Germany
Philipp Jauer, University of Luebeck, Germany
Julia Krüger, University of Luebeck, Germany
Tobias Meyer, University of Luebeck, Germany