A real-time sailboat controller based on ChibiOS

Abstract

This paper presents ongoing work aimed at the development of a multithreaded open source sailboat controller based on low cost Arduinocompatible hardware and ChibiOS/RT, a small and agile real-time operating system. The results achieved so far prove that this approach, that relies intensively on the programming resources provided by the real-time multithreaded operating system has produced a more stable, easy to modify and predictable controller, all of them valuable characteristics in the context of a sailboat and particularly in the case of competition environments.