At this moment Protei is in his research phase, a change in culture caused that this research isn't done in the conventional way but distributed over a large open source community. I'm one of the many people working on protei and even I work in a small community with my fellow wild robots project members.
My research project focuses on the sailing drone, which is part of the bigger system, with a mother ship which can collect the oil-absorbent tails when they are saturated, flying drones to spot where the oil is etc.
In this bottom up research process I build one sailing drone which is the basis for researching autonomous behavior the boat can fully adjust his actuators and can sense where it is, in which direction it is heading and where the wind is coming from, also the speed of the boat and how much leeway the boat has (+ other data derived from gps). The complex system I created in this way with a bottom-up approach can now be extended. The Boat I build cannot be send to sea and clean up oil already, but can show the capabilities. Also it shows that home build boats (see also the project of Martijn and Stijn) which are made by children aren't seaworthy. But can increase the knowledge about sailing drones. Therefore this distributed research method is very powerful in creating knowledge and building upon the existing knowledge already created by the community, which in the end enables protei to build and manufacture hundreds of highly efficient complete autonomous sailing drones which can clean up oil spills and at the same time collect data at sea.
Because this is a research project, I will also work on the collective paper of protei to publish my findings during this project and pass on my knowledge to the next group working on this.
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