Publications

Nuno A. Cruz, José C. Alves, Tiago Guedes, Rômulo Rodrigues, Vitor Pinto, Daniel Campos and Duarte Silva, "Integration of Wind Propulsion in an Electric ASV", Proceedings of the 8th International Robotic Sailing Conference, Mariehamn, Finland, September 2015.

José C. Alves and Nuno A. Cruz, , "AIS Enabled Collision Avoidance Strategies for Autonomous Sailboats", Proceedings of the 8th International Robotic Sailing Conference, Mariehamn, Finland, September 2015.

José C. Alves and Nuno A. Cruz, "METASail – a tool for planning, supervision and analysis of robotic sailboat missions", Proceedings of the 7th International Robotic Sailing Conference, Galway, Ireland, September 2014.

José C. Alves and Nuno A. Cruz, "A Mission Programming System for an Autonomous Sailboat", Proceedings of the MTS-IEEE Conference Oceans'2014, St. John's, Canada, September 2014.

Nuno A. Cruz and José C. Alves, "Navigation Performance of an Autonomous Sailing Robot", Proceedings of the MTS-IEEE Conference Oceans'2014, St. John's, Canada, September 2014.

José C. Alves and Nuno A. Cruz, "METASail – a tool for planning, supervision and analysis of robotic sailboat missions", Proceddings of the 7th International Robotic Sailing Conference, Galway, Ireland, September 2014.

José C. Alves and Nuno A. Cruz, "Permanent Ocean Presence With Autonomous Sailing Robots - Wind propelled vessels foster Long Missions With Precise Maneuvering", Sea Technology, Volume 55, no. 6, June 2014

António Silva, Aníbal Matos, Cristiano Soares, José Alves, José Valente, Frederich Zabel, Henrique Cabral, Nuno Abreu, Nuno Cruz, Rui Almeida, R. Nunes Ferreira, Salman Ijaz, Victor Lobo, "Measuring underwater noise with high endurance surface and underwater autonomous vehicles", Proceedings of the MTS-IEEE Conference Oceans’, San Diego, CA, USA, September 2013.

Henrique Cabral, José Alves, Nuno Cruz, José Valente, Diogo Lopes, "MPL - A Mission Planning Language for Autonomous Surface Vehicles", Proceedings of the International Robotic Sailing Conference, IRSC'13, Brest, France, September 2013.

Lin Xiao, Nuno Cruz, José Alves, Jerome Jouffroy, "Online Speed Optimization for Sailing Yachts Using Extremum Seeking", Proceedings of the MTS-IEEE Conference Oceans’12, Hampton Roads, VA, USA, October 2012.

Nuno Cruz, José Alves, "Auto-Heading Controller for an Autonomous Sailboat", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference Oceans'10, Sydney, Australia, May 2010.

José Carlos Alves, Nuno Alexandre Cruz, "An FPGA-based Embedded System for a Sailing Robot", Proceedings of the 12th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design, Patras, Greece, August 2009

Mark Neal, Colin Sauze, Barry Thomas and José C. Alves, "Technologies for Autonomous Sailing: Wings and Wind Sensors", Proceedings of the 2nd International Robotic Sailing Conference, Porto, Portugal July 2009

Nuno A. Cruz, José C. Alves, "Ocean Sampling and Surveillance Using Autonomous Sailboats", Journal of the Österreichische Gesellshaft für Artificial Intelligence (Austrian Society for Artificial Inteligence), Nr. 2 Vol 27, pp. 25-31, June 2008.

José C. Alves, Tiago M. Ramos, Nuno A. Cruz, "A Reconfigurable Computing System for an Autonomous Sailboat", Journal of the Österreichische Gesellshaft für Artificial Intelligence (Austrian Society for Artificial Inteligence), Nr.2, Vol 27, pp. 18-24, June 2008.

Nuno Cruz, José Alves, "Autonomous sailboats: an emerging technology for ocean sampling and surveillance", Proceedings of the MTS-IEEE Conference Oceans'2008, Quebec, Canada, September 2008.

José Alves, Nuno Cruz, "FAST - An autonomous sailing platform for oceanographic missions", Proceedings of the MTS-IEEE Conference Oceans'2008, Quebec, Canada, September 2008.