Application Status and Trend of Autonomous Sailing Boat Based on New Energy

Abstract

Abstract The autonomous sailing boat is becoming a rapidly developing technology for long time ocean science observations in recent years. In this paper, we give an overview of the representative autonomous sailing boat and typical application in the ocean researches, and point out the characteristics which are different from others. We discuss the control system method of autonomous sailing boat and summarize it into a three layer mode structure based on the application and effect. Based on the controlled target we analyse the relationship between the three layers, and discuss the typical control algorithm respectively and application boundary in each layer. We conclude with a brief outlook on the parameter selection of different application for design and the main problems of existing control algorithms. At the last part of this paper, we show a brief outlook on the development direction and key technologies to be broken through in practical application of global ocean environments.