Robotic Sailing 2017. This book contains the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 10th
International Robotic Sailing Conference which was organized in conjunction with the 10th World
Robotic Sailing Championship held in Horten Norway the 4th-9th of September 2017. The seven
papers cover topics of interest for autonomous robotic sailing which represents some of the
most challenging research and development areas. The book is divided into two parts. The first
part contains papers which focus on the design of sails and software for the assessment and
predication of sailboat performance as well as software platforms and middleware for sailboat
competition and research. The second part includes algorithms and strategies for navigation and
collision avoidance on local mid- and long range. The differences in approach in the included
papers show that robotic sailing is still an emerging cross-disciplinary science. The multitude
of suggestions to the specific problems of prediction and simulation of sailboats as well as
the challenges of route planning anti-grounding and collision avoidance are good indicators of
science in its infancy. Hence we may expect the future to hold great advances for robotic
sailing.
