Sailing robots are autonomous surface vehicles (ASV) that use wind power as the only propulsion source. The robot can sailing on the sea on a much longer duration compared to the battery-powered counterpart and potentially could serve as a platform for the long-term ocean observation. In order to help teams get start with robotics sailing, we are organising a two days winter academy for students and professionals. **Contents** The lecture will be given by Yu Cao (Southampton Sailing Robot Team) and Prof. Chao Xu (Zhejiang University). * Introduction on robotics sailing -- history and the challenges * The physics on sailing craft * Hardware and software structure of an autonomous sailing robot * Software tutorials on the basics of ROS, python and git version control * Sailing robot path planning and lower level control * Sailing demonstration given by ZMART team (subject to weather condition) **Time and Location** Dec.15 and 16, 2018 @ Zhejiang University, China // Free of charge Registration can be made online via https://jinshuju.net/f/JB7bpP --- [Visit Topic](https://discourse.ros.org/t/regional-robotics-sailing-winter-academy-at-zhejiang-university/6980/1) or reply to this email to respond. If you do not want to receive messages from ros-users please use the unsubscribe link below. If you use the one above, you will stop all of ros-users from receiving updates. ______________________________________________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users Unsubscribe: