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Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition

Posted by michael on from the ahoooga-ahoooga dept.

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."

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  1. Reading bar codes under water? by ambisinistral · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Navy must be planning on setting up underwater grocery stores for dolphins. Well, they'll have the market cornered...

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    deserve's got nothing to do with it...

  2. OMG, the Navy team uses Windows 98 by Styx · · Score: 4, Funny

    The US Naval Academy is participating in this contest. Their vehicle is powered by ... a pc104 running Windows 98...

    Some people might say that the navy hasn't learned anything from the past...

    :-)
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  3. Stands to reason by Subcarrier · · Score: 3, Funny

    The US Naval Academy is participating in this contest. Their vehicle is powered by a pc104 running Windows 98

    Somebody must have told them that Windows 98 goes down faster than anything else on the market.

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  4. Experienced Driver by Tablizer · · Score: 4, Funny


    I assume Ted Kennedy will be in the race.

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