SWARMON—Real-Time Localization System
Résumé
SWARMON is a project that started three years ago at ENSTA Bretagne. The aim is to provide a reliable positioning system to monitor and referee the WRSC. The WRSC is a competition involving small autonomous sailboats (50 cm–5 m), so any additional hardware has to be both small and light. The boats cruise near shore, hence the system can rely on cellular network for data exchanges. The system described in this article is based on both an Android application and a custom hardware tracker on the client side and uses a HTTP RESTful API on the server side. This server allows real-time tracking and replay mode.