Notice of Race
The focus of the races will be on testing control algorithms and boat performance. As the Baltic sea can be rough sometimes, we will stay in sheltered waters for the competition. Further details on the classes and the races will be provided soon.
Registration
All teams intending to participate must register by July 1st, 2011!
Classes
We plan to have three classes: the open class with boats of up to 4 m as defined by the MicroTransat rules, the Sailbot class with boats of up to 2 m as defined by the Sailbot rules, and a One Design MicroMagic class with rules as set forth below.
All boats must be controllable by a designated human helmsman throughout all races. The resposibility for avoiding any collision and damage will rest solely with the respective teams. Similarly, all teams will be resposible for their own safety during the event. The organizers will not assume any liability with respect to damages resulting from a team participating in the WRSC.
Microtransat class rules
The official MicroTransat rules require boats to be at most 4 m long and fully autonomous, with wind being the only means of propulsion. Additionally, in order to sail everywhere in the race area boats shall have a draft of less than 1 m. The maximum draft shall be 1.5 m, with teams being responsible to check for shallow areas before racing.
SailBot class rules
The official SailBot rules require boats to be at most 2 m long. Additionally, in order to sail everywhere in the race area boats shall have a draft of less than 1 m. The maximum draft shall be 1.5 m, with teams being responsible to check for shallow areas before racing.
MicroMagic class rules
We propose the MicroMagic as a third class for WRSC 2011 and provide more deatils here. Main advantages of the boat include the small size (0.53 m), great performance, limited boat building effort (the Graupner kit contains everything you need to build the bare boat for app. 160 EUR), and relatively low cost (if you can solder you could build a robotic boat with a decent GPS starting from app. 1000 EUR). The provisional class rules are defined here.
World Server
We will use a very simple Java based world server to share the boat position. The current source code can be found here and a runnable JAR file here. Please note that the GUI (worldserver.RunWorldServerGUI) depends on libraries from SwingLabs (http://swinglabs.org/downloads.jsp). Have a look at worldserver.TestBoatStringConnection.java to test the String-based client. You need to send the data as shown in the sample records, send 0 if you cannot provide some of the information.
Race Area
The race courses will be on the Wakenitz.
Race Committee
Co-Chairs
TBD
Members
TBD
Co-Organizers
Niko Ammann, University of Luebeck, Germany
Lenka Hanesová, University of Applied Sciences, 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
