Here is Sylvain, I'm one of the 24 team members who unfortunately could not go to San Diego. Each year we choose 8 gladiators and send them to the Spawar for one of the most interesting competition, the AUVSI and ONR AUV Competition. Today, these wonderful gladiators are in a plane, heading to San Diego where they will have to sleep only about 2 to 3 hours a day and where the stress will be at a critical level. This year we put a lot of efforts to improve our platform and tools, many improvement have been done on our software and we managed to integrated a DVL to the navigation system. We are ready and I know that our 8 gladiators will do their best, with all the 24 others team members I wish you good luck guys !
Today the SONIA team validated its sonar navigation system. Our submarine, SONIA, succesfully homed in on a device that emits sonar pulses.
Today we posted our annual AUV journal paper. It is an in depth article covering every aspects of our project. It presents the key features of our prototype as well as the specific solutions engineered by our team members. Learn more about this year’s developments
Below is a video demonstration of our blackjack bin detector intended for this year's competition. Enjoy!
We tested our initial version of our new waypoint-based navigation using DVL and IMU positionning. Our results are very satisfactory for a first draft implementation. We got the vehicle to navigate a 2m-sided square successfully with very little error and drift.
See a screenshot of the navigation pattern realized. The following video demonstrates the pattern that was executed in a medium current river environment.
