And we have to learn a lot about making it work perfectly from you guys.:) Maybe we can work together make things meet half way. What do you say? I would love to exchange ideas.:) I am at as120@cs.byuh.edu
Our second run was a washout. We had already faced electronics burnout before. Read earlier post which talks about first run working but not being submerged.
Actually if you saw the 7am run for the team, the AUV went in a perfect straight line. The only problem was that because of the loss of our dive motors we couldn't sink. In the afternoon we messed it up with our extra tinkering.:) Ofcourse, we were absolute novices there and hope to be better next time around. The idea was to learn this time and produce a water capable AUV which swam, and it did!!! I assure you one doesn't need to spen $50K to make a functional AUV. But I agree, long duration capabilities would need that kind of money.
I actually got the joke. Don't worry. I think geeks across all ages are alike.;)
Thanks for the encouraging words at the end. We hope to do better in the future.
The AUV works perfectly and has almost all the sensor suites that advanced AUVs had at the competition.
The AUV underperformed at the competition because of a controller failure that was suffered a day before the competition. Due to a very low-budget and no time left, the team of two was forced to salvage the robot, but still got it water worthy. Atleast it beat USC!!
Being BYU-Hawaii's first forray into this area, it performed well enough, especially with no engineering support (BYU-Hawaii doesn't have an engineering department). Next year should be as cheap and better performance, we are looking for industry support as well.
But just think, no engineers on the team. It was a cool effort.
We at Brigham Young University-Hawaii are also looking to expand our AUV development horizons by cooperating with industry. We would be more than glad to have you involved. Please email us at as120@cs.byuh.edu for information.
Our ideology is to develop lightweight and low-cost AUVs.
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Hey! The $600 AUV is a different one. The article talks of two AUVs.
And we have to learn a lot about making it work perfectly from you guys. :) Maybe we can work together make things meet half way. What do you say? I would love to exchange ideas. :) I am at as120@cs.byuh.edu
Our second run was a washout. We had already faced electronics burnout before. Read earlier post which talks about first run working but not being submerged.
Actually if you saw the 7am run for the team, the AUV went in a perfect straight line. The only problem was that because of the loss of our dive motors we couldn't sink. In the afternoon we messed it up with our extra tinkering. :) Ofcourse, we were absolute novices there and hope to be better next time around. The idea was to learn this time and produce a water capable AUV which swam, and it did!!! I assure you one doesn't need to spen $50K to make a functional AUV. But I agree, long duration capabilities would need that kind of money.
I actually got the joke. Don't worry. I think geeks across all ages are alike. ;)
Thanks for the encouraging words at the end. We hope to do better in the future.
Umm... thats 600 in the US actually. It was built at BYUH, by and Indian and an Indonesian. :)
The AUV works perfectly and has almost all the sensor suites that advanced AUVs had at the competition. The AUV underperformed at the competition because of a controller failure that was suffered a day before the competition. Due to a very low-budget and no time left, the team of two was forced to salvage the robot, but still got it water worthy. Atleast it beat USC!! Being BYU-Hawaii's first forray into this area, it performed well enough, especially with no engineering support (BYU-Hawaii doesn't have an engineering department). Next year should be as cheap and better performance, we are looking for industry support as well. But just think, no engineers on the team. It was a cool effort.
We at Brigham Young University-Hawaii are also looking to expand our AUV development horizons by cooperating with industry. We would be more than glad to have you involved. Please email us at as120@cs.byuh.edu for information. Our ideology is to develop lightweight and low-cost AUVs.