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2014 RoboSub team entrants

Subsea • Ain Shams University (ASU Racing Team):

Cairo, Egypt

RoboSub: • Amador Valley High School:

Pleasanton, CA • California Institute of Technology:

International AUV

Pasadena, CA • California State Polytechnic University:

Results

Pomona, CA st 1 Place—Cornell University nd • Carl Hayden High School (Falcon 2 Place—University of Florida competition

Robotics): Phoenix, Arizona rd 3 Place—ETS ( cole Technologie É • Cornell University: Ithaca, New York Sup rieure) é • Daytona Beach Homeschoolers th 4 Place—Far Eastern Federal University (S.S. Minnow): Palm Coast, FL th 5 Place—National Univ. of Singapore • Delhi Technological University: Delhi, India • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University:

Judges Awards

Daytona Beach, FL

Best New Entry — California Institute of vehicle and the rationale behind their • Far Eastern Federal University: Technology design choices.

Vladivostok, Russian Federation

Best Branding — McGill University

Orientation and check-in took place on • Harbin Engineering University:

International Collaboration — 28 June, followed by three practice days.

Harbin, China Team Bangalore Robotics

Static judging began on 31 July, during

Gemini AUV, built by Cornell University • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay:

Mayor’s Cup for Outreach — ETS team. Photo from CUAUV’s Melissa Hamada.

Mumbai, India which judges evaluated each vehicle for • Indian Institute of Technology Madras: “Despite our success in the past two technical merit, safety, and craftsman-

OE congratulates all the competitors!

Chennai, India years, this year’s competition was by no ship. Teams exhibited posters describing • Istanbul Technical University (AUVTECH): means a smooth sail. We had our fair their vehicles during this static display the object). Each team has 20 minutes

Istanbul, Turkey share of obstacles to overcome when period. The semi-fnal competition was of competition time, including 5 min. • Kasetsart University: Bangkok, Thailand many points of the vehicle started fail- on 1-2 August, followed by live stream- preparation out of the water and 15 min. • Kyushu Institute of Technology: ing after we arrived in San Diego. Our ing of the fnal competition on 3 August. performance in the water.

Fukuoka, Japan

During the competition, the vehicle must computer failed to reboot due to hard disk • Mälardalen University: Västerås, Sweden

Technical specs operate autonomously, with no control, corruption, our custom motor controller • McGill University (McGill Robotics): guidance, or communication from a person board blew FETs, and our enclosure con- For the RoboSub competition, an AUV

Montreal, Canada or any off-board computer. The vehicle and stantly fooded. Such challenges required must ft within a 6ft x 3ft x 3ft box (1.83m • Montana State University: any parts connected to the vehicle must us to come up with new design solution x 0.91m x 0.91m), and weigh less than

Bozeman, Montana submerge and remain submerged. No item on the fy. For example, since we couldn’t 125lb (56.7kg); ideally less than 84lb • National University of Singapore (Team Bumblebee): Singapore may break the surface or be left foating keep the water from leaking into our valve (38kg). For AUVs between 84lb-125lb, • Nautilus: Temecula, CA while the vehicle is underway.

enclosure, we actively flled the enclosure a point penalty was assessed. For AUVs • Prairie View A&M University: with mineral oil to prevent further leaking less than 84lb, bonus points were added.

Prairie View, TX

Direction and decoupling of electrical components. Extra bonus points were given to AUVs • Reykjavik University: Reykjavik, Iceland

It’s the exhilarating moments when we weighing less than 48.5lb (<22kg). The Technical Director, responsible for • RoboEgypt Electronic Research Institute: resolve and overcome real challenges with All vehicles must be battery powered rules, procedures, and specifcations, is

Alexandria, Egypt building an AUV as a team that attract us and all batteries must be sealed to reduce Dr. David Novick, from Sandia National • RoboSub Club of the Palouse: to participate in RoboSub every year.” the hazard from acid or caustic electro- Labs, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

- Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA

To help inspire young engineers and lytes. The open circuit voltage of any bat- Executive Director Daryl Davidson, - University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho scientists, CUAUV is also engaged in tery (or battery system) in a vehicle may responsible for coordination, said the • San Diego City College: San Diego, CA local outreach. In March, they co-hosted not exceed 60 VDC. teams have “got to be able to raise • San Diego Robotics 101: San Diego, CA a Boy Scout Robotics Workshop on cam- The competition uses Teledyne money; they’ve got to get logistics in • San Diego State Univ. Mechatronics Club:

San Diego, CA pus, and 17 scouts built and tested their Benthos ALP-365 pingers that can be set place to get here, to ship their vehicles own SeaPerch submarines. at 25-40 kHz in 0.5kHz increments. here. Then once they get here, they’ve • Southern Polytechnic State University

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team:

CUAUV team member Corey Chang got to operate and make sure they’ve got

Marietta, Georgia

Mission told OE, “I want to give a huge thank you their support network…to be able to say • St. George’s School: Vancouver, Canada to our sponsors, alumni, advisors, friends The goal of the mission is for an AUV to that if something breaks or goes wrong– • Team BangaloreRobotics: Bangalore, India and family. They’ve always been our big- demonstrate its autonomy by complet- which it always does– ‘we can fx that.’” • Team SONIA - École de Technologie gest supporters and one of the main rea- ing an underwater TRANSDEC 17 moon Susan Nelson, Executive Director of

Supérieure (ETS): Montreal, Canada sons why we can do this year after year.” mission. The vehicle must be able to SeaPerch, the US Navy’s signature K-12 • University of Alberta (ARVP): stop and interact with the control panel Outreach program, now managed by the

Edmonton, Canada

RoboSub schedule (dock/interact with buoys), complete a AUVSI Foundation, told U-T San Diego • University of Arizona (AUVUA):

Teams were required to submit a video maneuvering task (pass over/around an TV poolside during the competition, that

Tucson, Arizona introducing the team and their approach obstacle), reroute power (manipulate China graduates 1 million engineers/year • University of Colorado Boulder:

Boulder, Colorado to the event; the video is scored and used pegs on a board), choose a landing site and India graduates half a million. “Here • University of Florida: Gainesville, Florida online and on-site during the webcast on (drop markers), invite aliens to brunch in the US, we graduate less than 70,000 • University of Maryland: College Park, MD the fnal competition day. They are also (fre torpedoes through a cutout), and engineers/year. In 10 years’ time, that • University of Southern CA: Los Angeles, CA required to write and submit a journal collect samples from the moon (fnd a will not be enough engineers to fll the • University of Toronto: Toronto, Canada paper describing the design of their pinger, grab an object and move/release pipeline.” oedigital.com September 2014 | OE 83 082_OE0914_subsea4_robosub.indd 83 8/21/14 7:37 PM