Team Robosub! 
What Are We Doing?
Pro-Engineer CAD drawing of Robosub Design
This Senior Design Project is designing and building an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle to compete in AUVSI Foundation and ONR's 16th International RoboSub Competition. This allows students to see the difficulties faced in trying to create a autonomous system, along with the challenges faced when moving a project from the design phase to the build and testing phases. The competition will be held at the TRANSDEC Anechoic Pool in San Diego, California July 2013.
The competition requires the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to do several tasks underwater while being uncontrolled by the team. These tasks include passing through a colored gate, following a line, ramming a certain color buoy, shooting torpedoes at targets, dropping marker beacons in a specific location, maneuvering obstacles, using a claw to pick up objects, and surfacing with an object. These tasks will be completed using vision processing software that will have programmed intelligence to systematically complete each task.
Robosub Fully equiped in Water
Fortunately, we had the benefit of many reusuable sub components from last year's Robosub Team. Torpedo launchers, actuators, a claw, a beacon dropper, thrusters, hydrophones, and more were readily available to us. However, the electronics casing and sub frame were in desperate need of design. The programming to be able to run the AUV through its several tasks is also needed to be completely redone. Currently our Robosub and design, shown above, have been almost been completed with diligent work being done on the coding. The Robosub is expected to be completed on time to compete at the competition.
More information
...about recent updates about our project is available via the team's blog: