Optimization-Based Weather Routing for Sailboats
Jorge Cabrera-Gámez, José Isern-González, Daniel Hernández-Sosa, Antonio Carlos Domínguez-Brito, Enrique Fernández-Perdomo
Robotic Sailing 2012, pp 23-33
In this paper we propose a deterministic route planner for a sailboat suitable for areas where high quality wind and currents forecasts are available. An optimization based approach is used with the objective of minimizing the time required to arrive at a destination. Several simulations have been performed using high resolution regional forecasts from HIRLAM and MyOcean models in order to test the validity of this method.
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