Concept
The strength of the
Protei project is the community behind it. To extend this community I want to
design a autonomous sailing vessel which is easy to build yourself or cheap to
manufacture. Building different sailing vessels can create a large community of
people working on the same problem but when the boats are finished I don’t want
to lose this community, so the concept is based on the user interaction
starting from when the boat is finished to the very end of its life.
Because autonomous
sailing isn’t so easy yet (http://www.ssa.ethz.ch,
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090119113903.htm)
I will not aim to make this boat completely autonomous. This makes it also
possible for the community to stay connected to their own boat after it hits
the oceans. By adjusting the parameters of the boat (parameters which influence
how fast the boat makes the decision to make a turn for example) and routing
the boat to places with a large oil spill, it is possible to influence the boat
even in the middle of the ocean.
This opens the way for serious gaming. Real sailing
vessels remotely controlled by the community who build it. For now I want to
investigate what kind of rewards can be given (cleaning up oil is valuable for
governments and companies like BP) and
if the rewards should return to the protei project or can be withdrawn.
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