Maribot Vane

Maribot Vane is a sailing drone developed at KTH - a Maribot. The project started during 2017 and the first experimental platform based on a 2.4mR hull is already sailing. The objective is to explore the possibilities, techniques and methodologies suitable for an autonomous offshore sensing platform.

[@alanwonder504]

I came for a look at the content .. and immediately smiled at the music ;) Hammond jazz organist (wannabe) here

[@jakobKut]

:-)

[@franciscoe.9989]

Great presentation

[@marklimbrick]

The irony is those coco de mare seeds have perfect shape....wash up everywhere by design.

[@franciscoe.9989]

I would like to learn how to build one like that What type of navagation system did you use? Pixhawk?

[@dmitrylyakhov3211]

Any progress since then?

[@alexcarter8807]

Maybe it's even better at making yachties tip over. In which case it's a win.

[@peterworsley4699]

What system is used to control the angle of the tailvane?

[@jakobKut]

Hi Not sure what you mean but we set the tail vane basically to set the main wing at a certain CL and we do this depending on what tack we are on. So generally we have 2 settings for the tail vane, neutral, port or starboard. The actuation is done by a linear electric servo. Did that make sense?

[@carlinshowalter1806]

cool!

[@toroddlnning6806]

does it selfrighten if it is flipped upside down?

[@googleyoutubechannel8554]

I wonder where they got the design inspiration for what you might call a drone that sails, or a sail-drone if you will, you know it sails, and is a drone, I wonder if Maribot googled using the terms 'sail' and 'drone', perhaps they missed the ' ' and googled 'SAILDRONE'. No of course not, completely unique idea chaps, carry-on.