Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

8th Annual AUV Competition Results

Posted by timothy on from the blub-blub-blub-whirrrrrrr dept.

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."

3 of 137 comments (clear)

  1. Re:BSOD by hungrygrue · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yea, enough with the lame Blue Screen Of Death jokes already. Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you should know that Vista is going to change all of that. Now there is the Red Screen of Death as well.

  2. Uptime? Downtime? by erroneus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    not sure which would be the correct term since this is a submersible vehicle after all. In any case, what is the MTBF on a running system? What happens when a hardware component fails or fails to respond?

    It would be interesting to see details such as these.

    We take for granted that when devices are powered by Linux that it behaves well. We take for granted that Windows does not. It's a bit unfair to keep assuming Windows will cause failures in any system but it was a reputation that was undeniably earned.

    The idea of rebooting as a solution essentially started with Windows as far as I can see. A computer runs by performing a series of instructions. If, after running a series long enough that the program code or the data it acts on becomes corrupt or unusable (ruling out hardware failure of course) then there is a problem with the code that should be FIXED. Rebooting is only a measure to be taken when debugging a system, not repairing it. Somehow, thanks to Microsoft (IMHO) CTRL-ALT-DELETE is thought of as a means of fixing a problem. I come from a different world where rebooting means you just installed a new kernel and want to run it.

  3. Re:Obviously by aywwts4 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Okay Mods, Can we please start modding each and every one of these groaningly unamusing blue screen of death jokes redundant and unfunny?

    --
    Web Developers: Celebrate to our roots! Animated Gifs and Tiled Backgrounds, dont let our history die!