{"id":6459,"date":"2014-08-21T06:43:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T10:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=6459"},"modified":"2014-08-21T06:43:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T10:43:06","slug":"autonomous-underwater-vehicles-compete-at-auvsi-foundations-robosub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2014\/08\/autonomous-underwater-vehicles-compete-at-auvsi-foundations-robosub.html","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Compete at AUVSI Foundation&#8217;s RoboSub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Cornell-AUVSI-Isotropic_final2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6463\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Cornell-AUVSI-Isotropic_final2-300x240.png\" alt=\"Cornell AUVSI Isotropic_final2\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Cornell-AUVSI-Isotropic_final2-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Cornell-AUVSI-Isotropic_final2-615x492.png 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Cornell-AUVSI-Isotropic_final2-120x96.png 120w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Cornell-AUVSI-Isotropic_final2.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robots got wet. \u00a0Engineering teams were\u00a0challenged. \u00a0At RoboSub 2014 students design and build autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) capable of performing realist missions in the underwater environment. \u00a01st place winner Cornell AUV team provided us with a SolidWorks model of their winning design.<\/p>\n<p>There were 36 university teams from 11 countries and two high school teams that participated.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6464\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IIT-Madras-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IIT Madras\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IIT-Madras-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IIT-Madras-615x461.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IIT-Madras-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the AUVSI Foundation and Office of Naval Research, the 17th annual RoboSub international competition was held at the SSC Pacific TRANSDEC, San Diego, CA, USA.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6462\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/California-Institute-of-Technology2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"California Institute of Technology2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/California-Institute-of-Technology2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/California-Institute-of-Technology2-615x461.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/California-Institute-of-Technology2-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6469\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/California-Institute-of-Technology-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"California Institute of Technology (2)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/California-Institute-of-Technology-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/California-Institute-of-Technology-2-615x461.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/California-Institute-of-Technology-2-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Mission was clearly defined. \u00a0An AUV must demonstrate the ability to stop, interact with traffic\u00a0lights, complete a parking task, avoid speed traps,and\u00a0toss coins into a toll booth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6461\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/AVBotz-at-RoboSub-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"AVBotz at RoboSub\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/AVBotz-at-RoboSub-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/AVBotz-at-RoboSub-615x461.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/AVBotz-at-RoboSub-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/AVBotz-SolidWorks-Renderings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6466\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/AVBotz-SolidWorks-Renderings-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"AVBotz SolidWorks Renderings\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/AVBotz-SolidWorks-Renderings-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/AVBotz-SolidWorks-Renderings-615x460.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/AVBotz-SolidWorks-Renderings-120x89.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/AVBotz-SolidWorks-Renderings.jpg 881w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The AUV manipulates pegs on a board and finds a pinger, grabs a &#8220;moon rock&#8221; and moves the rock to a release position. The \u00a0AVBotz team from Amador Valley High School was up for the task.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6472\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/ETS-Canada-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"ETS - Canada\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/ETS-Canada-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/ETS-Canada-615x608.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/ETS-Canada-120x118.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/ETS-Canada.jpg 2040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ETS had a great poster to explain their system.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6468\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_2560-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2560\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_2560-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_2560-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_2560-615x615.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was even a demonstration by Sea Perch for younger engineers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6470\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Carl-Hayden-Falcon-Robotics-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Carl Hayden Falcon Robotics\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Carl-Hayden-Falcon-Robotics-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Carl-Hayden-Falcon-Robotics-615x385.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Carl-Hayden-Falcon-Robotics-120x75.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6482\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/University-of-Arizonia-AUVUA1-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"University of Arizonia AUVUA\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/University-of-Arizonia-AUVUA1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/University-of-Arizonia-AUVUA1-615x386.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/University-of-Arizonia-AUVUA1-120x75.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Studets also face a grueling design presentation to a panel of distinguished judges from the Office of Navel Research, Autonomous Undersea Systems, SPAWAR SSC Pacific, NATO Undersea Research Center, Department of the Navy, Penn State and Virginia Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Embry-Riddle-Aeronautical-University.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6471\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Embry-Riddle-Aeronautical-University-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Embry-Riddle-Aeronautical-University-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Embry-Riddle-Aeronautical-University-615x461.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Embry-Riddle-Aeronautical-University-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Far-Eastern-Federal-University-Russia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6473\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Far-Eastern-Federal-University-Russia-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Far Eastern Federal University Russia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Far-Eastern-Federal-University-Russia-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Far-Eastern-Federal-University-Russia-615x461.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Far-Eastern-Federal-University-Russia-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/getting-ready.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6474\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/getting-ready-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"getting ready\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/getting-ready-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/getting-ready-615x429.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/getting-ready-120x83.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6480\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Subjugator1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Subjugator\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Subjugator1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Subjugator1-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Subjugator1-615x615.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6481\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/University-of-Alberta1-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"University of Alberta\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/University-of-Alberta1-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/University-of-Alberta1-615x555.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/University-of-Alberta1-120x108.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SDSU-Mechatronics-Club.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6475\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SDSU-Mechatronics-Club-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"SDSU Mechatronics Club\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SDSU-Mechatronics-Club-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SDSU-Mechatronics-Club-120x105.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/SDSU-Mechatronics-Club.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you teams for sharing your SolidWorks designs and the RoboSub\u00a0experience with the SolidWorks Community. Marie<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots got wet. \u00a0Engineering teams were\u00a0challenged. \u00a0At RoboSub 2014 students design and build autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) capable of performing realist missions in the underwater environment. \u00a01st place winner Cornell AUV team provided us with a SolidWorks model of their<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2014\/08\/autonomous-underwater-vehicles-compete-at-auvsi-foundations-robosub.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5207,5499,5492,5201,4015,5219],"tags":[4016,5524,5525,4453,5521,5523,5522,3931],"class_list":["post-6459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis-2","category-competitions","category-design-2","category-electrical-2","category-mechanical-engineering","category-robotics-2","tag-3d-cad","tag-autonomous","tag-auv","tag-auvsi","tag-auvsi-foundation","tag-robonation","tag-robosub","tag-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6484,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions\/6484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}