PLATFORM OF TRIALS IN AN OPEN ENVIRONMENT FOR THE COOPERATION OF MARINE VEHICLES PROGRAMMED IN LABVIEW WITH WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY BY MEANS OF WIFI

Absract: This paper presents the development of a platform for trials on sea vessels for actions in cooperation, using an in-scale physical model of an autonomous high speed sea vessel, which has available an Industrial PC which will act as a client by means of a wireless connection to a laptop on land, where the server application is based. A software support has been implemeneted in LabVIEW which can capture and store data at a distance of all the platform instruments with wireless connecticity using wifi. This software accepts the different communication protocols required for the platform and is suitable for carrying out the Guidance, Navigation and Control of the physical model.