Robotic Boat Setup for Control Research and Education**This paper is supported by Government of Russian Federation (GOSZADANIE 2014/190 (project 2118)) and the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation (project 14.Z50.31.0031).

Abstract

In this paper a robotic boat setup for research and education in control is presented. It was designed for students to develop their practical experience and validate theoretical results at the course "Control Methods for Robotic Applications", which is being taught at the Department of Control Systems and Informatics of ITMO University. Four use cases of this setup are suggested in the paper. They are aimed to design controllers of various structures.