2009 AUV Competition
Name
AUVSI and ONR's 12th International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition [official website]
Host organizations
Place
Spawar Systems Center in San Diego, California, USA
Date
July 28 - August 2, 2009
Mission run-down
- Navigate through underwater gate
- Inspect a pipeline and follow it
- Find and connect with underwater buoy
- Drop marker in bin with a specific shape
- Naviate under barbwire
- Send a torpedo shape projectile in a vertical square
- Locate acoustic beacon(pinger) position and navigate towards it
- Pick up a safe box
- To surface within a specific zone over the acoustic beacon with thesafe box
Consult the official mission specifications and rules
General layout of the arena
Competition results
- First Place: Cornell University $10K
- Second Place: University of Victoria $4K
- Third Place: University of Rhode Island $3K
- Best New Team: St. Georges $1K
- Most with the Least: FAU $500
- Best technical paper: Kyushu $500
- TSA Award: Embry Riddle $500 (vehicle was significantly damaged in shipping by the TSA
- 4th place UCF
- 5th place U Texas @ Dallas
- 6th place USC
- 7th place FAU
- 8th place U Maryland
- 9th place Kyushu Institute of Tech
- 10th place ETS
- 11th place Amador
- 12th place iBotics
- 13th place US Naval Academy
- 14th place Delhi College of Engineering
- 15th place SDCR
- 16th place NC State U
- 17th place Saint George's
- 18th place VT
- 19th place U Toronto MDA
- 20th place U Florida
- 21st place ARVP
- 22nd place MIT
- 23rd place SPSU
- 24th place Embry Riddle
- 25th place KAIST
- 26th place UWF
- 27th place U Ottawa
- 28th place Pacific Nautilus
- 29th place U Colorado @ Denver
- 30th place McGill U