RoboSub 2016

BeaverAUV is a high school robotics team dedicated to building an autonomous underwater vehicle to compete in AUVSI’s RoboSub competition. The team comprises five high school juniors from Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts who share a passion for robotics and engineering. BeaverAUV was founded by students who desire to advance their knowledge and understanding of engineering through a challenging robotics competition. Students run the entire process, with support from faculty. They have gathered sponsorships; designed, constructed, programmed, and tested the robot; and made an effort to become involved in their community. Team members have dedicated innumerable hours to the development of their first submission to the RoboSub competition. The team hopes to expand in the 2016-2017 school year, incorporating feedback and knowledge gained from the competition, and adding new members so that the team can continue after the founding team graduates.

California Institute of Technology

Caltech Robotics Team

Pasadena, California, USA

The Caltech Robotics Team designs and builds vehicles for various intercollegiate competitions. We most recently participated in the18th International AUVSI/ONR Underwater Vehicle Competition in San Diego, California, from July 20 through July 26, 2015. The team placed 4th overall out of 37 international competitors. The RoboSub competition challenges us to create an entirely autonomous underwater vehicle that performs realistic missions in an underwater environment including obstacle navigation, identifying and shooting at targets, and manipulating objects with perfect dexterity.

Two years ago, we competed in AUVSI RoboSub for the first time with our first AUV, “Bruce,” who earned us a 7th place spot out of 37 competing teams as well as the “Best New Entry” award with a $500 prize.

Before this, the team competed in the RASC-AL Exploration Robo-Ops Competition at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in June 2012, placing second overall. We built a four-wheeled remotely controlled rover, challenged with the task of identifying and collecting rocks while traveling over variable rough terrain. We worked across many scientific disciplines to build a rover that had to be operated via a 4G wireless broadband communications system by a team member at Caltech.

The 2015-2016 Caltech Robotics Team is made up of over 35 undergraduates spanning all of the departments at Caltech. We are divided into four teams: Mechanical, Electrical, Programming, and Fundraising & Outreach. Our faculty advisor is Professor Joel Burdick, the Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering at Caltech.

Carl Hayden High School

Falcon Robotics AUV Team

Phoenix, Arizona, USA

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We are the Carl Hayden High School Falcon Robotics AUV team from Phoenix Arizona.

We are an extracurricular high school STEM program. Carl Hayden High School is a title I school, which means that the majority of the students receive federally assisted lunches. The team is funded through private donations collected as tax credits and through corporate donations. There are no school tax dollars involved. This will be our 6th year in the AUVSI & ONR (Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle Systems International & Office of Naval Research), Robosub competition, and we have a history of working on and competing with underwater robots. In 2004, we competed in and won the MATE National ROV Championships, besting 2nd place team MIT and other prestigious universities. Our story was covered in “Wired magazine” and also aired on “ABC Nightline”.

Next we decided to go outside MATE and create NURC (National Underwater Robotics Challenge). It was primarily organized because of the experiences that we saw while competing in MATE. NURC had participants ranging from grade school to colleges and universities. This opened the eyes of Arizona students and this generation of kids got to experience what they might never have had a chance to experience. Arizona is not a place you would ever think there would be an underwater competition but we did it anyways. NURC also allowed many professionals to integrate into mentors for future generations.

After that, NURC led us to AUVSI. Robosub gave us a chance to compete once again with college students and it gave us another challenge to overcome. Just last year, we were ranked 9th after finals and 28th out of 38th overall. Not only do we enjoy AUVSI every year, we also try to promote Arizona colleges and universities to participate. Now we have successfully added ASU ( Arizona State University) , NAU ( Northern Arizona University) , U of A ( University of Arizona) , and we also went outside of Arizona to get Texas A&M to compete this year.

Recently, in 2014 documentarian Mary Mazzio wrote and directed a documentary entitled “Underwater Dreams” which captured the team’s success and the fall out afterward. Additionally renowned author Josh Davis chronicled the story in his book Spare Parts which subsequently spawned a movie of the same name. The movie starred George Lopez, Marisa Tomei, Carlos PenaVega, Alexa Vega, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Mary Mazzio’s documentary was presented in Washington, DC where President Obama did the introduction for the screening at the White House! We are currently filming an IMAX film called “Dream Big”. It will be aired in science centers across America beginning in February of 2017!

Coleman University

Electric and Networked Vehicle Institute

San Diego, California, USA

Coleman University Robosub is a newly formed robotics team from San Diego, CA. We are a collaborative partnership between two local educational institutions: the Electric and Networked Vehicle Institute(ENVI), and the Mesa College MATLAB Club. Membership is composed of students from both Coleman University and San Diego Mesa College. Our team was formed for the purpose of creating projectbased

learning opportunities for San Diego students who are interested in Math, Computer Science, and Game Development. Projects are selected to promote student knowledge of machine learning, the Unity game engine, and Mathworks MATLAB software. This made the AUVSI Foundation’s 2016 Robosub Competition a perfect fit! Our team’s philosophy is to make good decisions by following good processes, leverage off-the-shelf products whenever possible, and use simulation data to extend our software development schedule.

Cornell University

Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

Ithaca, New York, USA

CUAUV is an entirely undergraduate-run Cornell University project team, consisting of around 45 students spanning numerous academic disciplines. The team offers a holistic engineering experience developing cutting-edge technology: students control and execute the entire design, manufacturing, testing and revision cycle of the submarine. As a six-time RoboSub champion, CUAUV strives to continuously push the envelope of autonomous underwater vehicle technology.

Duke University

Duke Robotics Club

Durham, North Carolina, USA

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The Duke Robotics Club is a student-run organization in the Pratt School of Engineering. Our mission is to provide Duke undergraduate and graduate students a place to pursue their interest in robotics by working on high-impact, large-scale robotics projects and competitions. We are entirely student-run, and composed of 30 students from the mechanical engineering, electrical computer engineering, biomechanical engineering and computer science departments. This is our first time at Robosub in over eight years. Over the last few semesters, our team has designed, built and tested a brand new sub: Leviathan.

East Los Angeles College

Robotic Huskies

Monterey Park, California, USA

We are the East Los Angeles College robotics team entering the AUVSI RoboSub competition for the first time. As a new team, we are designing, building, and figuring things out for ourselves that none of us have ever attempted before. We are not only focused on tackling this challenge head on, but we are setting a path for future students to follow and continue on long after we are gone. With a limited budget, limited resources, and limited facilities, this competition has proven to be a daunting challenge. However, with unlimited imagination and a desire to learn and accomplish, we are making a name for ourselves on campus and in the surrounding community. We assembled as a team because of our common interest in robotics and through the course of this amazing journey we have become truly great friends. For this very reason our team has great chemistry and thoroughly enjoys spending time together. That goes a long way during our lengthy build sessions and keeping each other sane when solving problems and overcoming the hurdles of creating an underwater robot from scratch. This process has taught us a lot and given us skills that will serve us well in our future, but most importantly it has helped to create friendships that will last a lifetime. We are the Robotic Huskies from East Los Angeles College and we are here to win.

École de Technologie Supérieure

S.O.N.I.A.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Team S.O.N.I.A. is a serious challenger for this year competition. After a rough start, the team took a clear direction and successfully pushed its limits. By utilizing our common passion for innovation and technology, we’ve improved our submarine in all the way we in our reach. Despite the different fields of interest, the cohesion built between the team members is definitely a key factor in our success and, thus, the foundations are solid for the years to come.

The team tried to surpass its limits. These learning experiences being victories by themselves, the biggest victory achieved is the relationship developed between the team members. We’re on our way to RoboSub with fire in our hearts.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Robotics Association of Embry-Riddle

Daytona Beach, Florida, USA

The Robotics Association at Embry-Riddle (RAER) is proud to present its entry, Yellowfin, for the 19^th Annual International RoboSub Competition.

This year’s RoboSub team consists of several veteran members with mentorship provided by students and faculty members well versed in the unmanned and autonomous systems regime. The attending team consists of a handful of undergraduate students from the College of Engineering at Embry-Riddle:

Evan Williams (Computer Engineering)
Stephen Cronin (Software Engineering)
Robert Goring (Computer Engineering)

The RoboSub competition consists of several tasks, which require navigation, image processing, decision making, and object manipulation. The Embry-Riddle team has designed a new vehicle based on tried and true design foundations for this year’s competition. This platform is a simple physical system packed with advanced sensory extensions and processing capabilities to perform the required tasks, with ample room for future expansion of capabilities with continuing development cycles. The new frame has been designed to be light, portable, and open to modification whilst maintaining structural integrity and performance. These engineering decisions have provided the team with a robust, mobile, and cost effective platform.

Far-Eastern Federal University

FEFU AUV Team

Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia

Scientific-Educational Center “Underwater robotics” was founded at Far-Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in 2009 together with Institute for Marine Technology Problems of Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Science (IMTP). It aims to unite effort of FEFU teachers and IMTP specialists in order to share their experience in underwater robotics. Each year team realizes new ideas of mechanical, software and engineering design. The better idea we used in science and commercial work.

This year in competition participate eight team members: Anton Tolstonogov (team leader, software engineer), Maksim Sporyshev (software engineer), Igor Blinov(software engineer), Tatiana Ian(software engineer), Vladislav Goi (designer), Artem Kostianko (designer), Sergei Kulik (electronic engineer), Roman Babaev (electronic engineer), Kirill Podberezin (electronic engineer), and others.

The main team achievements:

5th place in the RoboSub 2012.

1st place in the Singapore AUV Challenge 2013.

3rd place in the RoboSub 2013.

4rd place in the RoboSub 2014.

2st place in the Singapore AUV Challenge 2015.

2st place in the Singapore AUV Challenge 2016.

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

UFRJ Nautilus

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

UFRJ Nautilus started their activities on late March, 2016, amongst a group of undergraduate students who urged to get in touch with latest trends in innovation and technology, besides managing to put into practice what has been learnt in class. Their aim is to prompt the best experiences in the members as well as creating an environment that allows everyone to develop new competences through collaborative and competitive experiences.

So far, the team is composed by ten students from different graduations willing to grow together as well as contribute with inventiveness and proactivity. It is hoped every enterprise to be pleasant and entertaining without losing its challenging content.

Lucas Armand

Team Leader

“My motivation to kick off this project was to work with technology and innovation as well as having an entrepreneurial experience. So far, working on it has been extremely positive, as I’ve had the chance to meet people who share the same ideals and have been able to work with students from different engineering graduations. I hope after RoboSub, when we return to Brazil, we will have a better comprehension of subsea issues management and applying automation solutions to marine engineering scenery.”

João Pedro

Hydrodynamics and Mechanics

“My name is João Pedro, I study Marine Engineering”

Barbara

Hydrodynamics and Mechanics

“Hi, I’m Barbara Pravatto and I’m majoring in Marine Engineering.”

Diego

Electronics and Programming

“My name is Diego, I am majoring in automation and control engineering.”

Elisa

Marketing and Management

“I’m Elisa and I’m majoring in Electrical Engineering, emphasis on Electrical Power Systems. I love classical music and electrical systems, still deciding which one I’m fonder of.”

Rafael

Electronics and Programming

“I am Raphael and I am majoring in Electrical Engineering. I breathe programming, and everything related to tech and my favorite gadget is my beloved 3D printer.

Lucas Aguiar

Hydrodynamics and Mechanics

“My name is Lucas Aguiar, I am majoring in Marine Engineering. “

Felipe

Marketing and Management

“My name is Felipe and I am an undergraduate student, majoring in Marine Engineering. Curiosity moves me and I’m psyched about living new experiences and facing challenges of all sorts.”

Mateus Nobre

Marketing and Management

“I am Mateus and I study Marine Engineering. I enjoy traveling, reading and sailing.”

Georgia Institute of Technology

Why yes, That is PVC

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Why yes, that is PVC is a team of undergraduate and graduate students from the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL) at Georgia Tech, competing for the first time in RoboSub. The team started in September 2015 and have been working on building an AUV from scratch. The team is collaborating with other students from the lab working on AUVSI competitions (RoboBoat and RobotX). The members of the team come from Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science majors. The vehicle developed for RoboSub will later be used for a Navy sponsored research projects on maritime vehicles collaboration and communications-based path planning.

Harbin Engineering University

Aoming

Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

The underwater robot team of HEU (Harbin Engineering University) has been built for many years. And our university is located in the beautiful city, Harbin. It was founded in 1953.The Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (NAOE) at the College of Shipbuilding Engineering has a history of more than 50 years. Originally established as the Naval Engineering Department in 1953, it was one of the key departments of Harbin Military Engineering Institute. Our team rely on the school’s scientific research resources and focus on the development of the underwater vehicle. In recent years we have attended many robot competitions and gained many experiences. At the same time, we constantly improve our robot and hope the robot perfect well in practice. In order to improve security and flexibility of the robot, the team design the vehicle though various aspects, especially the design of the software. This year, we will take part in the competition with our new work. We want to communicate with other teams during through this competition. We sincerely welcome the other team to come to our school and exchange ideas of the robot during the long-term development.

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

AUV-IITB

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

AUV-IITB comprises of highly enthusiastic and hard working technocrats ranging from bright-eyed freshmen to driven senior undergraduates and tech-experienced post-graduates spanning various branches of engineering like Mechanical, Electrical, Software, Aerospace, Material Science and Civil.

We are a relatively young team to RoboSub family. We do not know our place yet, we do not know our limits yet but to us this means that we do not have a limit. We are ready for the competition to give it a try – young and fresh.

Kasetsart University & Chulalongkorn University

ZEABUS

Ladyao Chatuchak, Bangkok, Thailand

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Due to more demanding energy and wider ranges of operations, domestic development of subsea technologies to support local oil and gas industries is significant and necessary for Thailand. Based on this aforementioned need, Kasetsart University (KU) has started a research and development program on Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) and Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) in 2013 in order to develop in-house technologies to support domestic oil and gas industries with PTTEP as the main sponsor.

According to this program, a group of students who have been interested in this topic have formed a team to participate in Robosub since 2014. The goal of this participation is to encourage students to learn and understand AUV technologies from practical environment through the competition so that they can apply technologies learned and experience for further upstream research and development. Students can also learn from doing, working as a team, and solving real world problems. In Robosub 2014, our team called SKUBA reached the semi-final round, and get the 18th rank in our first competition.

In 2015, we have redesigned our AUV and named our new AUV as Zeabus, which is the same as the team name. Zeabus team is composed of about 30 student members from various departments including aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, computer engineering, and software and knowledge engineering. There are 4 sub-teams in Zeabus team, which are mechanical, electrical, software, and hydrophone teams. With much improvement on our AUV, we expect to go further in Robosub 2015.

Kennesaw State University

Kennesaw State's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)

Marietta, Georgia, USA

We are a group of students who compete in the AUVSI International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Competition. Our goal is to compete with other universities and to provide students with a creative outlet so they can gain hands-on experience.

We must build an autonomous underwater vehicle for this competition. Our AUV must complete a mission which consists of a set of tasks. We must follow specific rules and our AUV must meet certain requirements. Points will be given for the tasks completed. Points will also be given for our team’s website, journal paper, uniform, and AUV. It is also possible to earn bonus points for meeting certain weight requirements.

Kyushu Institute of Technology

Kyutech Underwater Robotics

Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Kyutech Underwater Robotics (Team Kyutech in short) is formed by 14 graduate students from Ishii laboratory of Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. Our main objective is to prepare for the future of everyone’s dream; the new age where the mankind and robots coexist in perfect harmony. The team designs, builds, and tests various Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and Remotely Operated underwater Vehicles (ROVs) for different applications.

Total of six RoboSub2016 members from the team are sub-leaders of DaryaBird project, our main AUV. Ryota Nakanishi is the project leader who is also programmers who are responsible for robot behavior. Katsuaki Suzuki is the mechanic who is responsible for both internal and external robot structure. Koji Masuda is electronics engineer who designed the new acoustic module. Ahn Jonghyun and Yuki Soejima are programmers who are responsible for robot algorithm. For more information, please check our website, http://www.brain.kyutech.ac.jp/~ishii/uwrteam/, or send email to kyutech.robosub@gmail.com.

Maritime State University named after Admiral G.I. Nevelskoy

MSU AUV

Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia

The Maritime State University is one of the oldest universities in the Russian Far East. MSU trains professionals of all the disciplines required for the marine transportation system in science, humanities, maritime and technical areas. Founded in 1890 in Vladivostok as the Alexander Marine Classes, it initiated maritime education in the Primorye Territory.

The Maritime State University AUV Team, founded in 2015 with the aim to designs and builds autonomous underwater vehicles to participate in the RoboSub Competition. Some members of our team have participated in MATE ROV and RoboSub competitions before.

The MSU AUV team consists of 9 people: six students and three advisors. Each team member involved in one of the following areas: mechanics, electronics and programming. We hope that participation in RoboSub competition will help as to improve our skills in different areas and will help to build strong team spirit.

McGill University

McGill Robotics

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

McGill Robotics, founded in 2013 at McGill University, was created with the goal of spreading knowledge and enthusiasm for robotics at McGill and throughout the greater Montreal community. Today, the team comprises over 200 members and is actively developing for three technical projects: Mars Rover, Drone, and, of course, Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. Each robot is expected to compete internationally in globally-recognized engineering competitions, as well as participate in outreach efforts to expose children to the field of robotics.

In fact, this year McGill Robotics founded its largest outreach endeavor to date: RoboHacks. The decision to bring the competition home this year turned out to be incredibly fruitful, resulting in a successful hackathon involving over 150 high school and college students — the majority of participants new to the field — as they collaborated to build small robotics projects in 24 hours, under the mentorship of the team.

McGill Robotics hopes to see its successes in outreach translate to its return to the AUVSI and ONR’s annual RoboSub competition this summer. This year’s AUV, Bradbury, is McGill Robotics’ third-ever entry to the competition and its most advanced. After a year of design, testing, and improvement, the team is excited to compete once again in San Diego and meet the other RoboSub teams.

Ultimately, the team owes its success to its dedicated members as they are driven by McGill Robotics’ motto: “Building robots to inspire students, and inspiring students to build robots.”

Montana State University

MSU AUVSI RoboSub

Bozeman, Montana, USA

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The RoboSub Club at Montana State University is a multidisciplinary team comprised of 25 students studying mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science. The team includes members from all stages of their college careers, from freshman to graduate students. This is the inaugural year for RoboSub as a club at MSU. In the past the RoboSub project was run only as a senior capstone project for mechanical and electrical engineers. Members of last year’s team decided to begin the transition from capstone project to club, which has allowed for better inclusion of volunteers, better continuity between each year, and better integration between the various disciplines involved with the project.

This is the 6th year that Montana State University has participated in the AUVSI RoboSub Competition. Club volunteers and members of the 2015-16 capstone team will be attending this year’s competition. The mechanical engineering team includes Alison Combs, Jacob Smith, and D. J. Landwehrle. The electrical engineering team is comprised of Levi Hartman, Rick Chen, Reda Alqarqoosh, Colton Crist, and Justin Marquart. Lastly, the computer science team includes Jake Jenks, Taylor Heinecke, and Kirby Overman.

The club would like to thank their sponsor Mike Kappus from NAVSEA, their advisor Dr. Todd Kaiser, their course instructors Dr. Hongwei Gao and Dr. Wataru Nakagawa.

National University of Singapore

Bumblebee Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (BBAUV)

Singapore

Team Bumblebee, representing the National University of Singapore (NUS), comprises undergraduates from the various disciplines of Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Engineering and Computer Science. This year marks our 4^th time participating in the International Robosub Competition, using our newest BBAUV v3.0. The competition team of 10 comprises:

Mechanical

Electrical

Software

PR

1. Kee Yeow

2. Rong Xuan

1. Alex John

2. Soon Jin

3. Ruth

4. Idawati

1. Shih Chiang

2. Vanessa

3. Jiaming

1. Esther

Designed to achieve a depth rating of 100m, BBAUV 3.0 is faster, more maneuverable, and more sea-worthy than its predecessor. Our upgrades include a customized liquid cooling system; backplane plugged with several daughter boards to reduce wiring; isolated power architecture; and improved algorithms for mission robustness. Meanwhile, BBAUV 3.0’s sensor suite incorporates an Explorer DVL, imaging sonar, hydrophone array, IMUs, two machine vision cameras, depth sensor and internal hull status monitoring sensors. It is actuated by 8 thrusters offering 6 degrees of freedom locomotion. The intelligent software architecture is built upon Robot Operating System (ROS) while more complex vision algorithms are implemented leveraging upon OpenCV libraries.

Team Bumblebee’s vision is to engineer autonomous systems of the future. We are currently embarking on the development of an Autonomous Surface Vessel, where we aim to develop cooperation amongst multiple autonomous platforms in air, water surface and underwater. Also, we hope to educate the public on what we do and inspire the next generation of engineers.

Find out more about us from: www.bbauv.com /Facebook/ Twitter!

North Carolina State University

Underwater Robotics

Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

The Underwater Robotics Club at NC State University, founded in 2004, is a completely student run organization that designs and builds autonomous submersible robots to participate in the annual RoboSub Competition. The team openly welcomes anyone from any major who has a passion for robotics and is interested in improving their technical skills.

This year the team returns to competition bringing their latest robot, Seawolf VI, with newly redesigned electronics boards and peripheral systems allowing the robot to do more than ever before. The team has also been busy designing and beginning the creation of their next robot iteration, Seawolf VII, which will introduce the team’s first acrylic robot and a completely redesigned hull.

While working on their own robot the team actively participates in outreach events volunteering with groups such as FIRST Robotics, the Technology Student Association, and school groups from around the state to spread their love of robotics to the local community. Additionally, the team continues to work with local engineering groups and companies to stay informed on the latest technologies and resources available as well as to allow team members to practice communicating and presenting projects in a professional manner.

Northwestern Polytechnical University

NWPU-Jiaye AUV Collaboration & Innovation Team (NACIT)

Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Our team is set up by Northwestern Polytechnical University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Institution and Xi’an Jiaye Aviation technology co.LTD.

NACIT consists of a group of Phd and master candidates with open mind and innovative spirit. Their research background includes naval architecture and ocean engineering, mechanical design, electrical information engineering, underwater acoustic engineering, automation and disciplines, which makes the real interdisciplinary association work come true here. “Professional issues, professional solutions; interdisciplinary issues, collective research” is our working ideas, while the implementation of “the captain to grasp the overall situation, the module head in charge of the module, each team member of the division and collaboration,” is our working framework.

Besides, we have experienced consultation faculty and engineers from industry to give us guidance in overall design and assemble, navigation, control, image identification and so on.

As a matter of fact, it is our first time to participate the RoboSub competition, we are all aware the great challenge and interest of which. During the process of designing, assembling and debugging our AUV, we have been undergoing lots of problems, but, meanwhile, we have gain much more, we learned how to solve stubborn tasks through collaborative effort. We all feel pleasure to work together to harvest the ability to solve practical problems, more importantly, we obtained precious friendship!

Now, we are trying our best to sprint for AUV’s best state, we all make effort to acquire good scores, although it is not easy.

San Diego, we are coming!

Northwestern Polytechnical University

Northwestern Polytechnical University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team

Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

The Intelligent Marine Vehicle Innovation Team was officially founded in April 14, 2015 within the College of Marine Science and Technology, dedicated to the R&D and manufacturing of marine vehicles. We are strongly supported by the graduate school and have three faculty advisers. Our team is consisted of multidisciplinary students studying at NWPU in Mechanical and Power Engineering, Electronic and Communication Engineering, Acoustic and Information Engineering and so on. Divided into three divisions-mechanical division, electronics division and software division, the team now has 42 members, with 31 undergraduates, 10 masters and 1 PhD.

The Intelligent Marine Vehicle Innovation Team provides open platform for fostering innovation talents. We uphold and advocate the ideas of talents being the first resource, cooperation being the first driver, and interdiscipline being the first pattern. Accordingly, we focus on cultivating students’ creativity and executive capability by offering them opportunities and resources of study, like giving open courses about AUV, lectures about interdiscipline and training for related matches.

Our daily work is developed around National Marine Vehicle Contest, Singapore Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge(SAUVC),and AUVSI RoboSub Competition. The team has made a lot of honors:

the first prize in the fourth National Marine Vehicle Contest
the third place in 2015 and first place in 2016 in SAUVC
NWPU Excellent Graduate Team in 2015
the first prize in Graduate Innovation Fair

We will continue our tradition of excellence and make greater progress in the future.

Oregon Institute of Technology, OTUS/AUVSI Club

OTUSOWL

Klamath Falls, Oregon, USA

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Prairie View A&M University

Panthers

Prairie View, Texas, USA

Name: Amy Fritz (Mechanical Team Leader)

Amy Fritz, a senior mechanical engineering student at Prairie View A&M University, is the Team Leader for the Panthers. She was born and raised in Houston, Texas and will be working full time at NASA Johnson Space Center in the robotics branch upon graduation. Amy enjoys long boarding and hiking and hopes to one day own and operate her own robotic prosthetics lab.

Major: Mechanical Engineering Born: January 27, 1993; Houston, Texas Favorite class & why: Manufacturing Processes Lab. This was my favorite class because it was hands on, and the products that I designed were manufactured by me. Interesting fact: I taught myself how to play the guitar my freshman year of high school. Future Job: Robotics engineer at NASA JSC

Name: Alexus Hall (Electrical Team Leader)

Major: Computer Engineering Born: August 30, 1991 Favorite Class & Why: Application Development, I always wanted to know how to make android applications for mobile devices. Interesting fact: I am a double military brat. Both my parents are in the military.  Future Job: Intel Security Graduate Rotation Program

Name: Long Tao

Major: Mechanical Engineering Born: VietNam Favorite Class & Why: Manufacturing because you can learn and apply what you learn into the manufacturing lab.  Interesting Fact: Too serious Future Job: Manufacturing Engineering

Name: Jeffrey Amoo

Major: Mechanical Engineering Born: Houston, TX by way of Nigeria Favorite Class & Why: Machine Design 2 because you learn the applications of choosing the proper material for designing a system. Interesting Fact: Lover of all sport activities Future Job: Business Reliability Engineer at DuPont

Name: Christopher Tifase

Major: Mechanical Engineering Born: Houston, TX Favorite Class & Why: Heat Transfer… I liked how we had to make a lot of assumptions. Interesting Fact: My mom owns the only Nigerian buffet  in Texas. Future Job: I don’t know yet because I graduate this coming December.

Name: Spencer Holman

Major: Electrical Engineering Born: 1992 Favorite Class & Why: Energy conversion. It is my favorite because it has been the same since the beginning. It is mostly just easy formulas to memorize or derive and then apply. Interesting fact: I have been building computers and other electronic devices since 9th grade. Future Job: Power systems Engineer.

Name: Ali Shahzad S. Malik

Major: Electrical Engineering Born: Jan 25th, 1992 Favorite Class & Why: Senior design because i can work hands on project its more practical than theories. Future Job: Entrepreneur

Name: Quaviz Owens

Major: Electrical engineering Born: born and raised in Houston, Texas. Favorite class & Why: Electronics and Photonics, because it was very interesting finding out how the devices work and what they were made of. Interesting fact: I want to build drones and Computer for a hobby once I have the money to be able to. Future job: owning my own companies.

Name: Jessica Keys

Major: Computer Engineering Born: December 21, 1993 Edmond, Oklahoma Favorite Class & Why: Embedded Systems a Design, implementing what we learn in class was pretty cool. Interesting Fact: I have played softball for over 12 years Future Job: In the future I hope to work with quantum algorithms and owing my own knowledge engineering company.

Name: Dzung Ha

Major: Mechanical Engineering Born: VietNam Favorite Class & Why: Manufacturing lab because I became a teaching assistant for the course after taking it Interesting Fact: 1/24 master level designers for CAD Future Job: Machine Shop Owner

San Diego City College

San Diego City Robotics

San Diego, California, USA

San Diego City Robotics is a group of students who’s primary focus is to learn before anything else. Our membership base is full of students who have never even seen code before. We like to think of ourselves as novice challengers. Knowing nothing has given us an edge for trying anything. Although we may fail at creating functional parts sometimes, the knowledge gained from failing is irreplaceable. We are excited to see how Scarborough stacks up against more professional submarines and we are open to failing, to win knowledge!

San Diego Robotics 101

San Diego, California, USA

San Diego Robotics 101 is a highly interdisciplinary team composed of both high school and first year college students from multiple universities and cities. Using our experience from the past few years, we have continued to refine our unique design, increasing its mission capability. This year, we took greater advantage of our cube design’s adaptability, introduced upgraded electronics, improved navigation algorithms, and implemented stronger thrusters. We look forward to pushing our design even further and exploring the possibilities created by it.

San Diego State University

Mechatroncis Club

San Diego, California, USA

The Mechatronics Club is a robotics oriented and project based student organization that consists of members from all the disciplines of the Engineering, Business, and Computer Science departments.

Our main goal is to develop an environment for students to gain valuable hands-on experience by providing project based opportunities.

The SDSU Mechatronics Club is broken down into three divisions: Apprentice Program, RoboSub, and RoboAir. All three divisions provide students with different backgrounds the opportunity to gain hands-on experience:

The Apprentice Program is a robotics development program intended for beginning to intermediate students who are passionate about learning and working on a team. RoboSub and RoboAir team members mentor the apprentices throughout the year by teaching concepts, policies, practices, and procedures, so they can one day assume leadership roles in the club.

RoboSub is a robotics competition team that designs and builds an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for participating in the ONR and AUVSI Foundation’s International RoboSub Competition. The RoboSub project is intended for intermediate to advanced students.

RoboAir is a robotics competition team that designs and builds an unmanned aerial (UAV) for participating in the AUVSI Seafarer Chapter’s International Student Unmanned Air Systems (SUAS) Competition. The RoboAir project is intended for intermediate to advanced students.

The divisions collaborate to ensure success of all efforts of the SDSU Mechatronics Club.

SRM University

SRMAUV

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

We are a team of undergraduates from SRM University prototyping an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for the RoboSub competition at San Diego, CA. Our goal is to build a revolutionary AUV for the Robosub event held in San Diego annually. Founded in 2013, SRMAUV is the flagship project of SRM University. Our team is a collaboration among Computer Science, Electronics, Mechatronics and Automobile Engineering Departments. Our main design philosophy is an affordable and efficient design. The technical complexity of SRMAUV is coloured with simplicity. We aim to build an affordable AUV that can give a run for the money when compared to commercial designs.

Our current vehicle Sedna 3.0 is the 6^th iteration since our team formed back in 2013. The design of the 2016 vehicle, Sedna 3.0 includes major Mechanical, Electrical and Software upgrades. Overall, the vehicle has excellent control capabilities to provide active Yaw, Pitch, and Surge and Heave orientation control. The software system of the vehicle features improved vision algorithms and a transition to a more modular software framework. Custom electronic boards have been fabricated for optimal space utilization.

St. George's School

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The Saint George’s Robotics Team is from Vancouver, BC, Canada, and has been active since 1998. It is a group of grade 8 to 12 students looking to expand their interests in science and engineering. During the school year it functions as a school club operating in between its members’ mandatory and voluntary extra-curricular activities. The team’s present objective is to develop a stable robotic platform with basic sensors for future teams to enhance and compete with.

Team BangaloreRobotics

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

“Nothing is impossible…..After YOU prove it!!”

We are a collaborative International Multi-University, Multi Disciplinary and enthusiastic team of students from all over the world mentored by Dr Venkatesh.

16 years old now, our aim is to build an intelligent world with the firm commitment of educating students through a Practical and Design oriented approach for innovation, without ensuing dependence.

We do not follow a Class Room approach nor do we indulge in spoon feeding. We follow the unconventional method where WE ALL learn together.

We believe that knowledge is universal and talent is for sharing without any binding constraints. We also believe that to play the game is more important than to win or lose.

We encourage interaction and individual ideas rather than a stereotype group activity. Our Philosophy is to let you discover your talents yourself and to facilitate the process.

We firmly believe that no science is beyond any age or qualification. We have proved this 1000s of times, since 33yrs of being associated with students and people of from all walks of life.

With team members aged 11 to 40years, we intend to prove it once again.

Texas A&M University, Women in Engineering Program

Robotic Engineering Aggie Females (REAF)

College Station, Texas, USA

The goal of The Texas A&M Women in Engineering Program’s AUV team is to create a diverse environment in which students can apply their knowledge from the classroom and bring it to the table in a unified team among other types of engineering disciplines. Creating an AUV brings many challenges that will allow students to learn creative problem solving methods to apply in their future in engineering and grow as team leaders. The team was formed on September 18, 2015, starting with only four members. The team quickly grew and now has sixteen active members who are collectively working to design, build, and program the vehicle. To efficiently accomplish our goals, we split into three subteams: Electrical, Mechanical, and Programming. The subteams meet separately as well as all together as a whole to communicate ideas and encourage multi-disciplinary growth. The success of the team is due to the constant support and sponsorship by the Women in Engineering (WE) Program at Texas A&M University and exceptional leadership. Each subteam has a team leader that has contributed greatly. The subteam leaders are Cassidy Shaver (Electrical), Sarah Beardsley (Programming), and Kaitlin Frierson (Mechanical). Cassidy Shaver, the overall team leader has spent countless hours organizing meetings, raising team morale, approving designs, and physically working on all aspects of the project.

The Ohio State University

The Underwater Robotics Team

Columbus, Ohio, USA

The Underwater Robotics Team (UWRT) is a student led and student driven engineering project team at the Ohio State University. Currently consisting of 24 active members the team has shown major progress in the design and construction of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). ROVs are piloted vehicles used to perform tasks which are too dangerous for a human diver, such as underwater construction, harbor security, and exploration. In 2013 and 2015, the team competed in the Marine Advance Technology Education (MATE) ROV International Competition, winning the award for the most spirited team in 2013 and improving their score in 2015. As the team’s membership has grown its membership as diversified. This growth has caused a shift in the teams ambitions. The team is now focused on designing and constructing autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). AUVs are similar to ROVs with the exception that piloting is shifted from a human on the surface to software on the vehicle. Furthermore, the team is consistently involved in the Ohio State Fair, winning the award for “Best Technology Exhibit”, but more importantly, actively engaging the surrounding community. This includes hosting workshops for high school MATE ROV teams, and teaching a middle school engineering club!

We appreciate all of our sponsors who not only provide monetary support, but remain engaged with our team and provide technical feedback. With their help, and many long nights, we are excited to compete in the AUVSI Robosub Competition with our new vehicle – Riptide!

University of Alberta

Autonomous Robotic Vehicle Project (ARVP)

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

The Autonomous Robotic Vehicle Project (ARVP) hails from the University of Alberta, located in the wonderful city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The ARVP team is a group of like-minded students who have been building robots in some form since 1997. Originally starting with land-based autonomous robots, ARVP made the leap to AUVs in 2006 and hasn’t looked back since! This year, ARVP will be competing and will continue to build off the success of their previous robot – AquaUrsa.

University of Arizona

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle - University of Arizona (AUVUA)

Tucson, Arizona, USA

The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle – University of Arizona (AUVUA) team, sponsored by Jackalope Science, Altium, Associated Students of the University of Arizona, the University of Arizona College of Engineering, Solidworks, and GitHub is competing in AUVSI RoboSub for the fourth year. AUVUA is an interdisciplinary team of mechanical, computer, and electrical engineering students. Our vehicle – Danger ‘Zona 2 – features eight Blue Robotics thrusters in a vectored arrangement, a routed HDPE and aluminum frame, a seven-inch hull housing an Intel NUC for mission and vision processing, two 24v, 10Ah batteries, and a pneumatics system for actuators. With a budget of under $5000, we have discovered new methods of creating complete mechanical and electrical systems that are cost-effective and reliable.

One of AUVUA’s missions is to community outreach in southern Arizona. The team mentors local FIRST robotics teams and attends events to encourage youth to consider STEM fields for careers.

University of California Riverside

Seagoats

Hemet, California, USA

University of Central Florida

Robotics Club at UCF

Orlando, Florida, USA

The Robotics Club at the University of Central Florida proudly presents Ness, the submarine. Ness focuses on modularity, ease of maintenance, and robust control systems. Two years of development from a team of ten interdisciplinary undergraduate students have created a polished and unique robot capable of performing stably and reliably. Ness is divided into five sections each dedicated to specific function or sensor array, featuring 6 degrees of freedom movement, hot swappable batteries, external powering and communications, and highly modifiable arms to interact with competition challenges. Ness functions completely autonomously with a focus in neural network image recognition for navigation and detecting challenges.

University of Colorado Boulder

University of Colorado Boulder RoboSub Team

Boulder, Colorado, USA

We are the University of Colorado Robosub Team. In our third year of the competition the team has added many new members at a variety of experience levels, strengthening the team. Our team has been working since August to design an underwater robotic platform that we can expand upon in the future. Our robust submersible vehicle will be capable of conquering many of the competition elements. In addition to this year’s redesign, the team has been working hard to make a more cohesive and cooperative robotics society at our University. We secured joint funding with multiple robotics teams from our sponsor the Engineering Excellence Fund. We have also received major sponsorships from PNI, XIO Technologies, and McCartney, as well recycling parts from last years. These partnerships, as well as our dedicated team members, have helped us create a focussed and capable vehicle this year. Our goal for the competition is to complete most of the visions tasks including buoys and maneuvering. Expand our techniques for locating the hydrophones and attempt to accomplish bins. Our team lead is physics major and longtime RoboSub competitor Pierson Connors. He has been assisted by Junior electrical engineer Kyle Harlow who headed the analog electronics team. Senior Jeff Venicx headed both the digital electronics and software teams. Juniors Sean Harrison and Kassi Butler colead the mechanical engineering team. We are excited to compete at TRANSDEC for our third year with Caligula.

Unviersity of Florida

SubjuGator

Gainesville, Florida, USA

SubjuGator is an autonomous underwater vehicle project designed and built by students of the Machine Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Florida. The University of Florida has participated in the RoboSub competition since its incarnation in 1998. The SubjuGator team is comprised of undergraduate and graduate students of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering.

University of Southern California

USC AUV

Los Angeles, California, USA

USC’s Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Design Team is a completely student-run organization that creates an AUV each year to compete in the annual Robosub competition. By employing industry standard programs and techniques, USC AUV ensures that all members have a hands-on, practical engineering experience outside of the classroom that can be utilized in their future careers. Every step of the design process, from planning, to fabrication, to testing, is decided by student members of the team. Each member is given their own individual project to complete, ensuring that every member makes a significant and direct contribution to the team. Overall, USC AUV serves not just as a student organization, but also a way for each member to be prepared for their future careers in their chosen field.

University of Toronto

University of Toronto Mechatronics Design Association

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The University of Toronto Mechatronics Design Association (UofT MDA) is a multidisciplinary student organization mandated to provide design experience to all students, by developing, applying, and promoting mechatronics technology. Our most important priority is providing a positive experience for members. We do this by providing the opportunity to transform their ideas into reality through communication and collaboration with students from many different disciplines. Members are also immersed in industry-level practices and offered support that are brought back from alumni and PEY students.

Our ultimate goal is to solve challenging design problems and promote teamwork among the student body. To this end, we compete annually in AUVSI’s RoboSub competition.

Due to the complexity of our project, UofT MDA is separated into two administrative teams – Financial and Public Relations – and three design teams – Mechanical, Electrical, and Software – in addition to our Executive team. Our Financial Team handles our budget as well as creates and maintains our relationships to University and Industry sponsors. Our Public Relations team handles our digital presence and member recruitment.

Our Mechanical Team deals with the physical workings of the submarine, which entails the design and fabrication of a frame and waterproof hull that must be structurally sound under hydrostatic pressure. Our Electrical Team designs the electronics and hardware components for the submarine’s power and sensory systems – such as voltage depreciation or location information. Our Software Team develops the submarine’s AI by coding high-level algorithms, which include image filtering and live underwater video processing.

University of Victoria

AUVic

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

AUVic is the University of Victoria’s Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team. Located on Southern Vancouver Island, oceanographic research and marine engineering are very relevant and present at UVic and in Victoria. AUVic is Uvic’s oldest competition team, having been founded in 2002. The team has competed at RoboSub several times in the past, taking second place in 2009. Over the last several years new members have rebuilt the team and have developed an entirely new platform for the competition AUV. The team is working on designing and building the core components as well as peripherals for the competition AUV and several other ROV projects. AUVic also participates in community outreach like the IEEE skill dev workshops, teaching soldering to undergraduate engineering students, and Ocean Networks Canada’s Ocean Science Symposium, leading presentations and workshops about marine engineering for high school students. The new competition platform “Red Herring” has been developed over the course of the last year. The development of Red Herring has allowed the team to grow significantly, with fifteen team members from electrical, mechanical, software, and computer engineering as well as computer science and physics.

Utah State University

Utah State RoboSub Team

Logan, Utah, USA

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The Utah State RoboSub Team was founded by students for students with a passion for engineering, especially for robotics. Their main objectives are to provide first-hand experience with real world problems, opportunities to improve technical skills, and to culture problem solving as a team as well as on their own.

Poseidon, the team’s latest project, is a feat of engineering when placed against previous models. One of the greatest benefits from its development was the concept of planning and organization. In order to be simple, efficient, and cost-effective, material such as the electrical layout and the software’s architecture needed to be pre-planned and reviewed before their implementation. As a result, Poseidon is a much faster machine, nimble, 60% lighter, and bears a portable light-weight C++/JavaScript development platform.

In addition to the Utah State RoboSub Team providing hands-on robotics experience, students also collaborate and teach each other from their own experiences in the process such that the team as a whole excels in knowledge, skill, and understanding.

Washington State University

Palouse Robosub

Pullman, Washington, USA