RoboSub 2023

We are a 12th-year robotics team from San Diego, California, with students ranging from 8th grade to college seniors. We currently participate in the FIRST Tech Challenge, RoboSub, RobotX, and Donkey Car robotics programs. Our goal is to be able to learn the most we can about robotics and to spread all that knowledge to others, as seen through our team motto: To learn, to share, to innovate, to inspire!

Amador Valley High School

Amador Valley High School Robotics Club

5th Place Overall (Autonomy Challenge + Design Documentation)

Pleasanton, California, USA

AVBotz is a student-run robotics team of Amador Valley High School students in Pleasanton, California, a suburb on the East Bay of Silicon Valley. The Amador Valley HS Robotics Club (AVBotz) was founded in 1999 as a means for students at Amador Valley to explore and apply technologies related to the field of robotics. Since then, our members have perpetuated a legacy of learn-by-doing problem-solving and independent learning, designing our own AUVs from scratch.

Autonomous Maritime Robotics Association at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Team Ununsinkable

Daytona Beach, Florida, USA

Beaver Country Day

BeaverAUV

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA

Website

Will not be submitting Technical Design Report

BeaverAUV was founded in 2015 and since then, each new generation of students has added, modified and improved upon the vehicle.

BRAC University

BRACU Duburi

2nd Place Overall (Autonomy Challenge + Design Documentation)

Ingenuity Special Award

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Our team BRACU Duburi has been the pioneer of underwater robotics research in Bangladesh and since has been developing and paving the way for underwater research in Bangladesh. Our goal at team Duburi is to utilize the advances made in autonomous underwater navigation and machine learning powered data collection and analysis to sustainably develop solutions for water pollution reduction, unnamed search-and-rescue missions and autonomous monitoring and research in areas of the oceans in which manned-missions are quite impossible.

California State University, Los Angeles

RoboSubLA

Los Angeles, California, USA

Dive in with RoboSubLA! We are a multidisciplinary team of Cal State LA students with a shared passion for robotics, RoboSub, and just building cool things! From freshmen to grad students, we’re proud to support such a strong roster of club and senior design members every competition year. Come chat with us, we’ll have stickers to exchange!

Carnegie Mellon University

TartanAUV

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Founded in 2019, TartanAUV is an interdisciplinary team of students at Carnegie Mellon University working to design, construct, program, and test autonomous submarines for the annual RoboSub competition. TartanAUV’s mission is simple; we build a team of effective engineers, leaders, and problem-solvers, a strong reputation for excellence, and an (even more notable) AUV. Our team is filled with passionate and dedicated students who are excited about designing robotic systems for oceanography, exploration, and research.

Cornell University

Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

Coopetition Special Award

Ithaca, New York, USA

CUAUV is a project team at Cornell University that has been competing in RoboSub for many years. CUAUV consists of students spanning numerous academic disciplines and is made up of four subteams: electrical, software, mechanical, and business. The team offers a holistic engineering experience developing cutting-edge technology; students control the entire design, manufacturing, testing and revision cycle.

Duke University

Duke Robotics Club

Durham, North Carolina, USA

The Duke Robotics Club is a student-run organization in Duke University’s 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, primarily in the realm of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). These projects allow our talented students to hone their skills and demonstrate the strength of Duke Engineering.

École de technologie supérieur

S.O.N.I.A.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Website | Facebook | Instagram

S.O.N.I.A (Système d’Opération Nautique Intelligent et Autonome) is a scientific club from École de Technologie Supérieure in Montreal, QC, which has been designing and manufacturing autonomous submarines for 24 years. S.O.N.I.A was founded in 1999 and its members have designed a total of 8 autonomous submarines since. The club is made up of students from programs in mechanics, electrical, automated production and software. Currently, S.O.N.I.A has supported two prototypes (AUV7 and AUV8). Moreover, S.O.N.I.A is an undergraduate student association and as such, we believe in harmonious team work and that knowledge is best acquired through hands-on experience. Our goal is to offer an educational environment for everyone whose desire is to learn and we strongly believe in the advancement of robotics.

Harvey Mudd College

MuddSub

Claremont, California, USA

Helix Charter High School

Scottie Subs

La Mesa, California, USA

As the first underwater robotics team in the history of our school, our aim is to provide opportunities in engineering for underrepresented students and those who cannot always afford the necessary supplies to pursue their passion in engineering. Since our school has a majority Hispanic population we have a deep connection with teamwork and cooperation. We understand the value and importance of hard work and commitment, which is why we are competing in Robosub. Robosub is a challenging and unique competition which all our team members find interesting. We all are thrilled with an opportunity that can push us to learn new knowledge and new opportunities. Overall, Scottie Subs is a first year team who is ready to put in the hard work, have effective cooperation, and compete in Robosub this year!

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

AUV-IITB

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

AUV-IITB comprises 50+ highly enthusiastic and hard-working technocrats on underwater robotics ranging from freshmen to driven senior undergraduates and experienced post-graduates spanning various branches of engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. We work on Matsya, a series of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), to deliver a research platform in underwater robotics and promote autonomous systems.

Lehigh University

Lehigh Underwater Robotics

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

Lehigh Underwater Robotics is a student-led research organization focusing on underwater autonomy through mechanical design, manufacturing, computer vision and programming, and electrical engineering of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).

McGill University

McGill Robotics

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

McGill Robotics is an engineering design team with a mission to inspire students to create innovative and sustainable robots. The team prides itself on fostering an interest in robotics through competition, community engagement, and comradery. McGill Robotics builds an AUV, an autonomous drone (UAV), and a Mars Rover in addition to organizing RoboHacks, McGill’s premier mechatronics hackathon.

Montana State University

RoboCats

Bozeman, Montana, USA

The Montana State University RoboCats is a small club of undergraduates established in 2010 with the purpose of developing hands-on maritime engineering skills among ambitious students at our university located in Bozeman, Montana.

National University of Singapore

Bumblebee Autonomous Systems

1st Place Overall (Autonomy Challenge + Design Documentation)

2nd Place Design Documentation

1st Place System Assessment

1st Place Website

Singapore, Singapore

Website | Facebook | Instagram

We are a group of innovators who envision to build autonomous systems of the future. We build and design autonomous maritime vehicles that capable of navigating underwater and on the water surface and perform a series of tasks without any remote control assistance. The system is targeted to be designed as highly intelligent and robust to changing environmental conditions. Full autonomy is achieved with an advanced sensor suite and array of powerful actuators.

North Carolina State University

AquaPack Robotics

Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

We are a team of undergraduate and graduate students that build autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) to compete. In addition to building AUVs, we hold multiple community outreach events to share our love for robots with the world.

Peninsula Youth Robotics

Menlo Park, California, USA

Website | Facebook

We are a group of high schoolers that got to know each other through Peninsula Youth Sailing. We are passionate about all things with water, new technology and the environment.

San Diego State University

SDSU Mechatronics

San Diego, California, USA

Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary team comprised of undergraduate business and mechanical, electrical, and software engineering students from San Diego State University.
Our goal is to give hands-on experience to passionate students through challenging robotics projects like autonomous submarines (RoboSub) and autonomous land vehicles.

Si Se Puede Foundation

Desert WAVE

4th Place Overall (Autonomy Challenge + Design Documentation)

Chandler, Arizona, USA

Attachment Community & Outreach Submission

Our mission is to provide a supportive and engaging environment where female engineering students can come together to grow and accomplish amazing things. We prepare our members with interpersonal, professional, and real-world technical skills necessary to excel in their studies and careers.

We hope to serve as an inspiration for the community and as role models for the next WAVE of engineers.

Team Simplexity

San Diego, California, USA

Website

Texas A&M University

WE AUV

College Station, Texas, USA

WE AUV is a student-led project team at Texas A&M University, supported by the TAMU Women in Engineering program. Established in 2015, our purpose is to build an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for the annual RoboSub Competition. WE AUV is a learning team that focuses on recruiting underrepresented freshmen and sophomores and cultivating a supportive environment to gain hand-on experience.

The Ohio State University

Underwater Robotics Team

3rd Place Design Documentation

Columbus, Ohio, USA

The Underwater Robotics Team is an interdisciplinary student project team that specializes in the design, construction, and operation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). Students from a variety of majors are responsible for every aspect of building the vehicles including machining parts, soldering circuit boards, developing software, and managing business relationships. These vehicles are designed for the purpose of competing in the international AUVSI RoboSub competition held annually.

Troy High School NJROTC

Troy High SPEAR

Fullerton, California, USA

Website | Twitter

Troy SPEAR is a passionate team dedicated to empowering high school students with the exploration underwater robotics and autonomy. Through their program, students gain hands-on experience in designing, building, and operating robots in aquatic environments, in the mean time building a sense of camaraderie. Their mission is to inspire and build interest, in the robotics and STEM in general.

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

ASUQTR

Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada

We are an association of students from the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières which works to the development of an autonomous submarine. Club members are in electrical, mechanical and industrial engineering. This association has for mission to develop the capacities of each of its members to the maximum by deepening their skills in several areas such as image recognition, servoing, mechanical design, embedded programming, communication between systems and many others.

University of Alberta

Autonomous Robotic Vehicle Project (ARVP)

3rd Place Overall (Autonomy Challenge + Design Documentation)

1st Place TIE Design Documentation

1st Place Team Video

Data Sharing Special Award

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Founded in 1996 at the University of Alberta, ARVP has built a total of 11 autonomous underwater vehicles. ARVP currently focuses on the annual RoboSub Competition.

University of British Columbia

UBC Subbots

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

(Team Introduction Video submitted late on 07/14/2023)

UBC Subbots is an engineering student design team dedicated to making an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for the RoboSub competition each year. This competition challenges us to make a robot that can navigate and interact with underwater obstacles without any human intervention whatsoever. The team was founded in 2017 and is made up of engineering and computer science students from multiple disciplines who have full control over the design, manufacturing and testing of the robot.

University of California, San Diego

Triton Robosub

San Diego, California, USA

The Triton Robosub team at UC San Diego is a group of driven and innovative students who are passionate about robotics and engineering. Our student-run organization focuses on designing, building, and testing autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to compete in the annual RoboSub competition. With a commitment to collaboration and hands-on learning, the team works tirelessly to create innovative solutions for real-world challenges.

University of Florida

SubjuGator

Gainesville, Florida, USA

SubjuGator is an autonomous underwater vehicle project designed/built by Machine Intelligence Laboratory (MIL) students at the University of Florida (UF). The University of Florida has participated in every 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 Maryland, College Park

Robotics At Maryland

College Park, Maryland, USA

Robotics @ Maryland is the student-run robotics team at the University of Maryland, College Park. Open to any University of Maryland student, Robotics @ Maryland competes in the Robosub Competition.

University of Michigan

Michigan Robotic Submarine

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Website | Facebook | Instagram

Michigan Robotic Submarine is a student-led engineering team comprised of primarily undergraduate students with diverse backgrounds and interests from the University of Michigan, working together to design and build an autonomous robotic submarine for the annual RoboSub competition.

University of Southern California

AUV at USC

Los Angeles, California, USA

Website

University of Victoria

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Interdisciplinary Club (AUVIC)

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada