The 10th annual, international, AUVSI sponsored, autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) competition wrapped up Sunday. For the third straight year it looks like University of Florida's SubjuGator has taken first place. UF is followed by University of Central Florida with their year-old, rapid prototyped design,  and the University of Rhode Island.

The final standings are as follows:

1. University of Florida
2. University of Central Florida (UCF)
3. University of Rhode Island (URI)
4. Ecole de Technologie Superieure (ETS)
5. Cornell University
6. University of Southern California
7. United States Naval Academy

Here's a shot of the final scoreboard from UF's blog.

Several of the top teams, including UF, ETS, and Cornell had brand new vehicle designs. The official list of competitors has links to all the team's websites and journal papers. My own team, NCSU, had catastrophic system failures and wasn't able to qualify.

Good job to everyone that competed. Looking forward to next year, especially with the new weight rules. Also glad to hear that SMU's stolen robot was returned!


Note: Cornell's website lists winners without UCF. Not sure where the discrepancy is coming from.




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Looks like we're having some technical problems … working on it. Thanks for the patience.

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I'll be using this post as a placeholder to display the final standings of the matches as they are decided. Winners are in bold. Updated Sunday, 12PM.

Todays upcoming matches:

Mid-Size league 3/4 Match (9PM):  CoPS, University of Stuttgart (3pts) vs. Hibikino-Musashi, KitaKyushu Science Research Park (2pts)

Small-Size league 3/4 Match (10PM):  ZJUNlict, China (2pts) vs. RoboDragons , Japan (3pts)

Four-legged 3/4 Match:  vs.

Kid Size 3/4 Match (11PM): Team Ro-Pe (2pts) , Singapore vs. Fumanoids (4pts), Germany

Teen-Size Final (9PM):  NimbRo vs. PAL Technology , UAE

Mid-Size league Final (11PM):  Eigen (0pts), Kiko University vs. Tribots (2 pts), University of Osnabruck

Rescue Final:  vs.

Small-Size League Final (12PM)  CMUDragons (9pts), USA vs. Plasma-Z (7pts), Thailand

Kid-Size Final (1PM): Team Osaka (6pts), Japan vs. NimbRo (8pts), Germany

Four-Legged Final (2PM):  NUBots (1pt), Australia vs. Northern Bites (5pts), USA



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RoboCup 2007 Day 5 is done and we got lots of pictures and video for you. Unfortunately, I forgot my firewire
adapter, so the video will have to wait till I return, but I do have some pictures to wet your appetite.

 

I have a nice video of a semi-final round between the Freisburg Nimbro team and the Darmstadt Dribblers .

 

There's also an interview with Bruno Maisonnier from Aldebaran Robotics along with pictures.

Stay tuned for more pictures and video, and maybe even a sneak peek at Ugobe's Pleo robot!

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Good morning everyone. Today is Saturday, July 7th and is the first day of finals here at RoboCup 2007 in Atlanta. All the simulation events are running today, along with Nano. We've got KidSize and TeenSize quarter and semi-finals, along with Smal-Size and Mid-Size Leagues.

Look here for a complete list of registered teams.

There's also already over four hundred great pictures in the Flickr group for RoboCup 2007.

More details to come (and hopefully video and pictures).



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