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  1. Team Sonia Takes Prize at RoboSub 2011

    Hardware · Robot · · posted by timothy · from the dive-dive-dive-fatal-exception dept. · 22 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "The RoboSub 2011 competition final was held on July 17. Each year, teams from around the world gather to see who has the best autonomous underwater vehicle. The goal of the competition is to complete an obstacle course with no human intervention. This year a team from Montreal, Canada — team SONIA AUV from ETS — won first place." Read on for a list of the top-placing teams.
    • 1st Place: ETS Team SONIA (awarded $7,000)
    • 2nd Place: Cornell University (awarded $4000)
    • 3rd Place: University of Florida (awarded $3,000)
    • 4th Place: Reykjavik University (awarded $2,000)
    • 5th Place: University of Maryland (awarded $500)
    • 6th Place: University of Rhode Island ($500)
    • 7th Place: United States Naval Academy
    • 8th Place: NC State

  2. University of Maryland Team Wins Robot Sub Competition

    Hardware · Robot · · posted by ScuttleMonkey · from the holding-their-breath-all-weekend dept. · 44 comments
    William Cox writes "A team from the University of Maryland has won the 11th Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition, held in San Diego, CA, this weekend. Twenty-five teams from around the world (US, Canada, Japan, and India) built autonomous submarines to complete a series of tasks using vision recognition, autonomous navigation, and sonar. Maryland unseated the 3-time record holder, University of Florida, to win first place. University of Texas at Dallas took 2nd, and a Canadian team, École de Technologie Supérieure, took 3rd."

  3. 9th Annual AUV Competition Results

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the below-the-water-line dept. · 110 comments
    Sean.D.Matthews writes "This weekend the 9th Annual Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Competition was held in San Diego. This year, teams were challenged to complete three tasks including finding a docking station, dropping markers in marked bins along a pipeline, and surfacing in a recovery zone marked by an acoustic pinger. Teams from MIT, Cornell, Duke and eighteen others competed for the grand prize. After an intense final round, the University of Florida's Team SubjuGator walked away with the victory for a second year in a row. Interestingly, the UF team ran Windows XP embedded on SubjuGator's on-board computer."

  4. 8th Annual AUV Competition Results

    Hardware · Robot · · posted by timothy · from the blub-blub-blub-whirrrrrrr dept. · 137 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "This weekend the 8th Annual Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Competition was held in San Diego. This year teams were challenged to complete three tasks including finding a docking station, inspecting a pipeline, and surfacing in a recovery zone marked by an acoustic pinger. Teams from MIT, Cornell, Duke and sixteen others competed for the grand prize. After an intense final round, the University of Florida's Team SubjuGator dethroned MIT and walked away with the victory. Interestingly, the UF team ran Windows XP on their embedded computer."

  5. Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition

    Tech · Technology · · posted by michael · from the ahoooga-ahoooga dept. · 66 comments
    krugg234 writes "Today [ed. note: well, a few days ago] marks the start of the Fifth Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition. This year's competition involves completely autonomous robots locating and reading bar codes at various depths underwater at a naval base in San Diego. There are some good links on the site to individual competitors' websites to see how different schools tackled the same problem."