MAD Brain Box navigation processor

The MAD Brain Box is an advanced navigation processor designed to be the core of your onboard electronic system. It centralizes and enhances all your electronic data, converting raw data into fast, precise, and relevant decisions using its artificial intelligence algorithms.

The MAD Brain Box offers several key advantages:

Performance improvement: Thanks to its AI and ultra-precise data acquisition, it ensures unmatched course stability.Enhanced safety: It adapts to each boat's behavior, providing superior control even in extreme conditions.Increased reliability: It ensures smooth and precise course holding, reacting instantly to wind, swell, or boat behavior variations.Reduced consumption: The rudder system is less stressed, reducing energy consumption.

The MAD Brain Box processes real-time data with high precision using its artificial intelligence algorithms. It reacts instantly to wind shifts, swells, or changes in boat behavior by applying subtle corrections that prevent overreaction. Each helm movement is optimized to ensure stability and control.

The MAD Brain Box can capture and process a wide range of data with exceptional resolution, including:

Boat movements (via its inertial measurement unit).Wind data (with high-frequency acquisition up to 50 Hz).Boat attitude to anticipate trajectories.

Yes, the MAD Brain Box evolves continuously. It logs your sailing sessions, learns from your settings, and adapts its behavior to your boat and sailing style, acting like an experienced crew member.

The MAD Brain Box Autopilot offers three main autopilot modes:

True wind steering.Heading steering.Polar steering.

The Heel Security Pack is an exclusive safety feature that enhances your boat's safety against gusts. It automatically corrects excessive heel by adjusting the course (heading up or bearing away) before reaching a critical angle. This progressive and smooth action keeps the boat stable and secure.

The Elite Performance Pack is a major advance in piloting intelligence. With this pack, the MAD Brain Box does not just follow the route—it attacks. It steers like a true regatta sailor, actively seeking maximum speed and adjusting every movement to exploit your boat’s full potential.

The MADController is the power unit of the actuator. It is designed to control any electric or hydraulic actuator, whether linear or rotary. It offers high-frequency control (100 Hz) and rudder positioning to the tenth of a degree, and is compatible with 12/24V.

The MAD Brain Box features high-level software engineering with automatic sensor failure management, ensuring increased continuity and reliability of the navigation system.

Yes, the MAD Brain Box is a product designed and manufactured in France, highlighting the excellence of marine electronics.

The MAD Brain Box, via its MADMast module, enables high-frequency acquisition of wind data, up to 50 Hz.

Yes, the MAD Brain Box is designed for native integration with the NMEA 2000 network. It is compatible with major brands on the market and uses standard sensors and displays, making integration into an existing electronic setup straightforward.

Yes, the MADController is versatile. It can drive any electric or hydraulic ram and is compatible with linear or rotary actuators, providing high flexibility for integration into your steering system.

The MADMast module is compatible with ultrasonic sensors and features an interface for passive mast angle sensors (potentiometric) or active (0–5 V). It also uses an NMEA 0183 wind sensor interface.

Integration of the MAD Brain Box is simplified thanks to its extended connectivity. It connects via CAN, Ethernet, and Serial buses, and installation is plug & play via the NMEA 2000 CAN bus, enabling easy connection with existing equipment.

The MAD Brain Box autopilot is activated and controlled from your navigation displays. The MADLight app simplifies operation with a clear, intuitive interface, allowing you to change modes, adjust settings, monitor sensors, or take manual control of the helm in just a few gestures.

The MAD Brain Box is more than just an autopilot; it is an advanced navigation processor designed to centralize and optimize all electronic data on your sailboat. It captures the boat's movements and wind information with exceptional resolution, then interprets them in real time using its artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms.

Its main functions include:

High-resolution data acquisition (up to 50 Hz for wind). Analysis and processing of information by AI for fast and accurate decisions. Integration via CAN bus, Ethernet, and Serial for extended connectivity. Continuous learning from your navigations and adaptation to your boat's behavior and your sailing style.

It significantly improves the performance, safety, and reliability of your sailboat by providing unmatched heading stability and remarkable responsiveness, even in the most extreme conditions.

Yes, the MAD Brain Box is designed for native and extended integration with the NMEA 2000 network, making it compatible with major marine electronics brands on the market. Installation is plug & play via the CAN bus.

It uses standard sensors and displays and can operate with:

GPS: B&G ZG100, Garmin 24XD. Compasses: B&G Precision 9, Garmin SteadyCast, Raymarine EV-1. MFDs: B&G Zeus, Garmin GPSMAP / TD50, Raymarine Axiom. Speed/depth transducers: Airmar DST810, Airmar UDST800. Autopilot drives: Electric or hydraulic, linear or rotary. This broad compatibility allows you to leverage your entire existing electronic setup.

Controlling the MAD Brain Box autopilot is simplified with the MADLight application. This clear and intuitive interface is accessible directly from your existing navigation displays.

With MADLight, you can easily:

Switch between the three available steering modes: true wind, heading, or polar. Adjust the autopilot settings. Monitor sensor data in real time. Take manual control of the helm if needed.The application is designed to be user-friendly, requiring no complex configurations or tedious adjustments, giving you full control at your fingertips. The system also automatically manages sensor failures.