RoboSub 2021 is announced! ARVP is entering the 23rd annual RoboSub competition. Similar to the previous year, this year's competition will also take place in a virtual format. While there is a genuine thrill to travelling to San Diego and being surrounded by all the other avid engineers and roboticists, we will have to endure […]
We are quickly approaching the one-year mark of this pandemic, modifying almost every aspect of our daily lives. We wish all of our members and readers the best moving forward; while it may be another nine months until normalcy returns, the end is on the horizon. To regain some semblance of regularity for the team, […]
There is much deliberation about the creation of a tandem robot to accompany Arctos. Members are discussing the prospect of creating a tandem robot to supplement Arcots' existing functionality. We may be the only team at the competition with this type of design modification. The advantage is that Arctos and the tandem robot could satisfy […]
A Year in Review We can all admit at this point that 2020 was not what we expected; it has been rough for many people in many ways. At least with the Pfizer vaccine and the recently approved Moderna vaccine, there is some optimism on the horizon. It could still be another year before normalcy returns, […]
In the past month, our team has made great progress. Mechanical Team The Mechanical Team has been working on a cooling system to regulate the hull's internal temperature and reduce problems associated with overheating. No previous robot in the ARVP repository adopted such as subsystem; we are making new strides. The team is getting aid from a […]
Thank you for attending the AGM! Thank you to everyone who attended the AGM on September 27th via the YouTube stream! We are extremely happy to meet all the new faces this year through our weekly online meetings last week! If you couldn't make it to the AGM, we have uploaded the live stream to […]
RoboSub 2020 results are in, the new semester begins, and a new executive team is chosen as new challenges lurk on the horizon. RoboSub 2020 Results This year, the RoboSub competition transitioned to an online format. The criteria for evaluation centred around the quality of our team website, the detail of our technical design report, […]
