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The year of the Route du Rhum is usually a busy one! This has been confirmed for Madintec, which has been working on finalizing its MAD Brain AutoPilot steering solution. To achieve this, the in-house engineers collaborated with three teams: Macif in Ultime, Initiatives Cœur in Imoca and Arkema in Multi50. The goal: 100% reliability. This plausible ambition only makes sense in terms of the number of miles covered before the start line. For Madintec, the Route du Rhum means no less than 10,000 miles sailed by the various partners in training, but also in race conditions. Following validation of the MAD Brain Autopilot 's parameters, François Gabart, Samantha Davies and Lalou Roucayrol agreed in September that this latest addition would be used as the main Autopilot during the Route du Rhum.
True to its reputation, the Route du Rhum was a testing event for both skippers and their machines, electronics included. At the end of the event, Madintec was able to assess the development and reliability of the MAD Brain Autopilot . Feedback was unanimous, with no problems to be deplored at any level of the control chain comprising the MAD Brain AutoPilot, MAD Controller and MAD Interface. Despite two unfortunate retirements due to delamination (Samantha Davies) and capsizing (Lalou Roucayrol), the conclusions of each team did not point to any malfunction of the components or behavior of the Madintec automatic Autopilot . It goes without saying that motorsport brings its share of satisfaction, even in the face of mishaps.
Alongside the finalization and success of the MAD Brain Autopilot , Madintec was also able to confirm that its Bravo4 navigation unit is an indisputable link in the operation of onboard electronics. Present on L'ultime Sodebo (Thomas Coville), the Multi50 FenetreA (Erwan Le Roux) and the Imoca PRB (Vincent Riou), it once again gave full satisfaction (despite a loss of aerial for PRB and a connector problem for FenetreA, setbacks beyond Madintec's reach). Already validated by two round-the-world races with Sodebo and Macif, the Bravo4 system once again proves its reliability, for the peace of mind of skippers, teams and the Madintec team.
Madintec engineers are never satisfied with resting on their laurels! The house style is rather to use these (good) bases to develop and improve the existing systems. The safety and confidence of skippers in their craft are paramount for Madintec. In particular, work is planned on management and fault tolerance based on aeronautical and automotive technologies which guarantee the operation of electronic systems even in the event of malfunctioning of the various sensors present. At the same time, work is already being carried out on the instrumentalisation of sailing boats to measure the forces exerted on the structures (foils, arms, mast) in order to avoid breakage, etc. A rich programme whose various phases will be regularly made official in 2019!
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