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."

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GNAA Adopts Trusted Platform Module

[Koptor]

GNAA Adopts Trusted Platform Module
GNAA Adopts Trusted Platform Module

DiKKy Heartiez - Berlin, Norway

In a response to the U.S Armed Forces' new initiative to require Trusted Platform Modules to be standard in all new computers in order to better fight CYBERTERRORISM, the GNAA declares it will follow the initiative set by the U.S Army and do the same. President timecop of the GNAA said in a press conference in Gookyo, Japan this morning that "The war on CYBERTERRORISM is something we must take as seriously as Richard Stallman". This confirms the GNAA's new plans to become the most Secure provider of gay sex in CYBERSPACE, and beyond.

The Trusted Platform Modules will enable us to deliver AIDS free, HIV free, cancer free, poison free, battery acid free, radiation free, and most importantly juden-free and perfectly preserved Holy Gay Nigger Seed to our CYBER-Customers, while at the same time protecting them from Al Quaeda CYBERTERRORISM.

GNAA head of Internal Security, Mr supers, Kike, from Israel, commented in the same press conference that the Trusted Platform Module was originally developed in Israel, by jews and that he was very proud of what his fellow kikes could accomplish while under heavy fire from Hezbollah. He also added that "This is however nothing compared to the FACT that my fellow juden developed the Internet while being held captured in Auschwitz".

About U.S Army

The United States Army is the main supplier of bombs and grenades to the juden of Israel so they can kill and murder innocent cute arabic children and women wearing burkas. The U.S Army is also world known for its intervention in WW2, causing the defeat of the Third Free Reich and the liberation of thousands of judenschweine from happy camps all over Europe. The U.S Army has also killed lots of asian faggots in the 60's and 70's and also a small number of sandniggers in the 90's and in to the new millenium.

About Trusted Platform Module

The Trusted Platform Module started development in Israel by jews funded by the OSS in the year 2000. The project was a co-project between Jews and open source hippies and communists from all over the world. It was taken over by the Microsoft Corporation in the first quarter of 2000, as the jews and commies and faggots couldnt agree on anything and abandoned the project after only 4 days. Its current version varies a lot from the original OSS version.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
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If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
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Re:GNAA Adopts Trusted Platform Module

[Anonymous Coward]

www.gnaa.us

learn to read fucktard

Oh come now

[Stephen Tennant]

Interestingly, the UF team ran Windows XP embedded on SubjuGator's on-board computer.

Is there a troll tag?

9th Annual AUV Competition Results

[Penis Enlargment]

The Annual AUV is back! This is a great competition!

Biological solutions to mechanical limitations.

[Jerk City Troll]

While we are good at developing machinery and electronics, programming AI into the system has always been the problem. The solution: Borrow an existing solution from nature. All you need is an insect, rat, or reptile to interface with the device and for them to obtain feedback with sensors it would closely be accustomed too. Just imagine for a moment using a pigeon mounted inside a scramjet with the only purpose to get an item from point A to B in a battle field autonomously. How about using rodents to operate a robotic vehicle provide surveillance or rescue missions. The list goes on.

Re:Biological solutions to mechanical limitations.

[Jerk City Troll]

Think Strogg.

The simple fact is that while we use senses in our bodies to do things, the similar versions for robots and autonomous vehicles are crude, expensive, and no-one is quite sure how to make them work the way we think they should. Computer vision is becoming a big thing, and despite the millions of people working with it or on it around the globe, there is still no standard way to immitate what a biological organism does with one eye, let alone two.Then there is that inner-ear thing, and this tells us many things: if we are vertical, falling, rising, moving forward or sideways... Our eyes do way more than a movie camera does. People are only now beginning to understand how many ways that we analyze the visual data presented to us through our eyes.

Fortunately the problems of autonomous underwater vehicles similar to planes and they are not as bad as the problems faced by ground-based vehicles. On the surface, there is so much to run into, get stuck on, fall off of etc. Just writing some code to keep a toy robot from getting stuck under the kitchen table is a huge task without boatloads of sensory data and processing power.

The tasks these vehicles are trying to accomplish ARE that difficult, well, using animal brains might help.

There are two groups you can try if you are interested in finding out more about hobbyists that are working on these problems http://www.dprg.org/ and http://www.seattlerobotics.org/index.php. There are many others, of course, but these two are fairly active groups.