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This paper describes the Robosail project. It started in 1997 with the aim to build a self-learning auto pilot for a single handed sailing yacht. The goal was to make an adaptive system that would help a single handed sailor to go faster on average in a race. Presently, after five years of development and a number of sea trials, we have a commercial system available (www.robosail.com). It is a hybrid system using agent technology, machine learning, data mining and rule-based reasoning. Apart from describing the system we try to generalize our findings, and argue that sailing is an interesting paradigm for a class of hybrid systems that one could call Skill-based Systems.
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Adriaans, P. (2003). From Knowledge-Based to Skill-Based Systems: Sailing as a Machine Learning Challenge. In: Lavrač, N., Gamberger, D., Todorovski, L., Blockeel, H. (eds) Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2003. PKDD 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2838. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39804-2_1
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