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9th Annual AUV Competition Results
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."
http://www.auvsi.org/competitions/06competitors.c
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20060807
http://mywebcache.com/2006/08/07/subjugator-holds
Carlo Francis (Captain)
James Greco
Kevin Claycomb
Matthew Koenn
Sean Cohen
Sean Matthews
Michael Gregg
Jacob Collumns
Gene Shokes
Greg Cieslewski
Adam Barnett
Eric M. Schwartz (Advisor)
A. Antonio Arroyo (Advisor)
Duke doesn't deserve to be 2nd place. Their solution for the final part of the course wasn't autonomous; they guesstimated the location of the retrieval zone and used some doppler gizmo to tell how far the sub went, instead of searching for the acoustic pinger. That's pretty half-assed if you ask me. ETS deserved the 2nd place, again.