Abstract
This paper presents ongoing work aimed at the development of a multithreaded open source sailboat controller based on low cost Arduinocompatible hardware and ChibiOS/RT, a small and agile real-time operating system.
The results achieved so far prove that this approach, that relies intensively on the programming resources provided by the real-time multithreaded operating system has produced a more stable, easy to modify and predictable controller, all of them valuable characteristics in the context of a sailboat and particularly in the case of competition environments.
This work has been partially funded by Canary Government and FEDER funds under ACIISI ProId2010/0062.
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Cabrera-Gámez, J., de Miguel, A.R., Domínguez-Brito, A.C., Hernández-Sosa, J.D., Isern-González, J., Adler, L. (2015). A Real-Time Sailboat Controller Based on ChibiOS. In: Morgan, F., Tynan, D. (eds) Robotic Sailing 2014. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10076-0_7
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