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Austria is once again the Robotic Sailing World Champion

ASV Roboat wins its third World Championship title in a row at the World Robotic Sailing Championship in Canada

June 2010 - Austria's ASV Roboat remains the undisputed world champion in robotic sailing. The completely automatic sailing boat from an Austrian research team was able to defend its title against eight competitors from the USA, Great Britain, Canada and Germany at this year's World Robotic Sailing Championship (WRSC) in Canada from the 7th to the 10th of June 2010. All in all, the participating boats had to prove their worth in six disciplines. By using artificial intelligence, robotic sailing boats can, in the long term, be set on any course – fully automated and without human involvement...

 

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Contact:

Roland Stelzer (Project Leader)

InnoC.at - Austrian Association for Innovative Computer Science

Kampstraße 15/1, A-1200 Vienna

Tel: +43 660 4029936

eMail: roland@innoc.at

www.roboat.at

 

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ASV roboat on Lake Ontario
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ASV roboat, Gill the boat, Team Overkill (f.l.t.r)
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WRSC10 Team: Hannes Hassler, Roland Stelzer, Karim Jafarmadar, Adrian Dabrowski (f.l.t.r)
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ASV Roboat team for WRSC 2009
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last preparations on ASV Roboat
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Roboat monitoring at night
Karim Jafarmadar (l.) and Roland Stelzer (r.)
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