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Oceanus: a context-aware low-cost navigation aid for yacht racing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2021

Ivan Scagnetto ,
Giorgio Brajnik ,
Peter Gus  and
Francesco Trevisan
Ivan Scagnetto*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
Giorgio Brajnik
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
Peter Gus
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
Francesco Trevisan
Affiliation:
Polytechnic Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: ivan.scagnetto@uniud.it
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Abstract

Oceanus is a hardware and software platform designed and developed to provide useful information to the crew of a racing yacht. The key features of the proposed solution are its reliability, the possibility to extend and customise it, and its context-awareness, which simplifies its usage in an intelligent way. The target users of the system are both beginners who want a navigation aid, but cannot afford the expensive and often overly complicated commercial systems available on the market, and more experienced sailors who can benefit from an open and customisable instrument to study and fine-tune the setup and performance of their sailing boats. Furthermore, Oceanus strives to be as much as possible a low-cost architecture, both in software and hardware requirements.

Keywords

sail racingnavigation aidinternet of thingscontext awarenessusabilityuser experience
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 74 , Issue 4 , July 2021 , pp. 738 - 749
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 2021

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