By William Cox & filed under Competitions.
Cornell University has won the 12th annual AUVSI Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition. And, according to Cornell’s tweet, second place goes to University of Victoria and 3rd to University of Rhode Island. Interestingly, these three teams weren’t even in the top 5 of last year’s compeitors (pdf), so they seem to have put in a lot […]
By William Cox & filed under Industry.
AUVSI and ONR’s 12th Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition starts up tomorrow (July 30th), with two days of prelimiary runs and testing, followed by 2 days of competition this weekend. Last year’s winner, University of Maryland, along with 29 other teams are signed up to compete. Several of the teams have blogs where you […]
By William Cox & filed under Industry.
Pictured above is a group photo of all the teams competing in the 11th annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle competition. University of Maryland won the competition, unseating University of Florida from their 3 year winning streak. Congratulations to all the teams. The final standings for the top 8 teams are below. Pictured below is Maryland’s […]
By William Cox & filed under Industry.
Don’t forget that the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s 11th Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition is taking place this weekend in San Diego, CA. This year’s theme is “Underseas 11″ and will feature gambling themed tasks, such as grabbing a sack of cash from a “bank vault”, traversing an “air duct” (a floating […]
By William Cox & filed under Industry.
Ah, back home to North Carolina where the tea is sweet (very sweet) and the humidity makes it feel 15 degrees hotter. As promised, I’m here to provide closure to NCSU‘s journey to San Diego. And, no, we didn’t place in the competition. We were so very close – one of the top contenders actually. […]
By William Cox & filed under Industry.
Well, it’s 10:21 AM. Our first preliminary run starts at 11:00 AM. As of now, two teams have made it through the gate, and two teams haven’t showed up. One team, I think the University of Florida, navigated to the acoustic pinger and surfaced. We also have another run tomorrow morning at 10:00 AM. The […]
By William Cox & filed under Industry.
It’s almost 9PST and I’m standing here blogging pool (amazingly large dive tank?)-side. Our arrival time was pushed up one hour this morning to get teams here in time for some live coverage from a local San Diego TV station. … Yeh, definitely got up at 5 AM. Mike and I walked into the command/al […]
By William Cox & filed under Industry.
I’ve got a lot of audio but it’s taking a long time to edit. Fingers crossed I’ll have the first podcast up this afternoon. In the mean time, here’s a few pictures from the first day of practice. shot of our setup Here’s Seawolf being hoisted into the water for the first time. Behold the […]
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