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SWARMON—Real-Time Localization System

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Robotic Sailing 2015 (WRSC/IRSC 2015)

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Abstract

SWARMON is a project that started three years ago at ENSTA Bretagne. The aim is to provide a reliable positioning system to monitor and referee the WRSC. The WRSC is a competition involving small autonomous sailboats (50 cm–5 m), so any additional hardware has to be both small and light. The boats cruise near shore, hence the system can rely on cellular network for data exchanges. The system described in this article is based on both an Android application and a custom hardware tracker on the client side and uses a HTTP RESTful API on the server side. This server allows real-time tracking and replay mode.

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Notes

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    Automatic Identification System.

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    https://github.com/olivierreynet/WRSCMonitor/tree/master.

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    Sony Xperia Z1, Wiko Cink Peak, Wiko Ozzy, Nokia X.

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    Wiko Ozzy.

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    Wiko Cink Peak.

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    cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes.

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  1. ENSTA Bretagne, 2 Rue François Verny, Brest, France

    Benoit Bourdon, Jean-Jacques Boye, Quentin Descours, Bastien Drouot, Olivier Reynet & Thibault Viravau

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Correspondence to Quentin Descours or Olivier Reynet .

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  1. Åland University of Applied Sciences, Mariehamn, Finland

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  2. Åland University of Applied Sciences, Mariehamn, Finland

    Florian Haug

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Bourdon, B., Boye, JJ., Descours, Q., Drouot, B., Reynet, O., Viravau, T. (2016). SWARMON—Real-Time Localization System. In: Friebe, A., Haug, F. (eds) Robotic Sailing 2015. WRSC/IRSC 2015. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23335-2_9

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