Seminar 3rd October 2016 6 p.m. Nuffield Theatre Room 1083 (6/1083)
Snakes on a Boat: Robotic sailing with Python
Sophia Schillai
University of Southampton
- Web page
- http://southampton-python.github.io/
- Categories
- CFD, Computer Vision, Fluid Dynamics, Git, Linux, Marine Renewable Energy, Oceanography, Optimisation, Python, Raspberry Pi, Robotics, ROS, Scientific Computing, Sensor Networks, Sensors, Ship Hydrodynamics, Software Engineering, Transport
- Submitter
- Thomas Kluyver
Working on the boat
Sophia led a team from the University of Southampton which recently won the World Robotic Sailing Competition (Micro Sailboat class). Come and hear about how we used Python to make a boat sail itself, including:
- Why is it so hard to make a robot sail?
- What happened to us at the World Robotic Sailing Championship (besides winning it)?
- Who are ROS and Brian?
- What tools did we combine to make the Black Python sail?