25th Anniversary RoboSub Competition
Abstract
RoboSub is an international student program established to generate, cultivate, and enhance a community of innovators by challenging, new generations of engineers. Student teams tackle fundamental challenges in the design of ocean systems, while gaining hands-on ex,perience designing, building and testing a fully autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). By providing a venue and mechanism to share kn,owledge and innovate, students are primed for jobs in developing, documenting, testing and managing state-of-the-art autonomous syst,ems. The nominal winners are those teams that have scored the most points. The real winners are all those participants who have lear,ned lasting lessons about working together to create an autonomous system that accomplished a challenging mission in a complex envir,onment. The RoboSub competition aims to provide opportunities for students to gain hands-on experience with systems engineering, enh,ance student skills in accomplishing realistic missions with autonomous vehicles, and foster relationships between young engineers a,nd organizations developing and producing autonomous vehicle technologies. The objective is to produce the people who will push the,envelope in the future. Through participation, students gain an appreciation for the tradeoffs inherent in any system design and the, lessons learned in transitioning from a working bench prototype to operating reliably in the real world.In 2022, RoboNation will ho,st the 25th anniversary of the RoboSub competition. The tenure of this competition and the students, advisors, and professionals imp,acted by this program will be synthesized in a report highlighting the participation and trends observed over the last 25 years of c,ompetition.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Oct 06, 2022
- Source ID
- N000142212751
Entities
People
- Lindsey Groark
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy