Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition

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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Reading bar codes under water?

[ambisinistral]

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

OMG, the Navy team uses Windows 98

[Styx]

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...

:-)

Experienced Driver

[Tablizer]

I assume Ted Kennedy will be in the race.