Current Competition

ARVP will be, once again, participating in AUVSI’s RoboSub competition, this time introducing our new platform, SubmURSA.  The competition is held at the Naval Research Base in San Diego, CA from July 12-17.  The competition follows a series of different themes each year, this year’s being “Robo Love.”  Various tasks pertaining to the theme are given to the AUV for completion.  This year, the tasks (as described in the Official Rules and Mission) are as follows:

• Path – The AUV is to follow an orange coloured line to reach the various tasks
• Flowers – The AUV is to strike two of three differently coloured buoys (red, green & yellow) in a given order
• Lovers Lane – The AUV must pass though an L-shaped green PVC pipe
• Letters – The AUV is to drop markers into their respective bins
• Cupid – The AUV must fire two torpedos (one red and one blue) through two of four heart shaped cutouts (large red, small red, large blue and small blue)
• Vase & Sweetie’s House – The AUV must locate and grab an orange vase using SONAR and rise with the vase into a PCB constructed octagon (sweetie’s house)

ARVP will be attempting 4 of the 6 tasks: path, flowers, lovers lane and vase & sweetie’s house.