Today were the final runs of the AUVs. After the qualification, we ranked in 9th position out of the 10 teams that made it in the final. Our team was able to do one test in the morning to validate that our software was working properly. Our final round was at noon. Unfortunately, it seems Murphy was still close. We were not able to do more than pass the gate. After some analysis of the logs, we found that the problem was a bad setting in our vision software. The settings to detect pipes were not entered properly, thus eliminating our pipe detection capabilities. After 2 minutes of search patterns looking for pipes, our mission timed out and we headed for the pinger since it is worth a lot of points. Because of a problem with the elevation of our passive sonar board, the vehicle was not able to tell when it was above the pinger. To fix this problem we made our vehicle look for the briefcase while navigating toward the pinger to know when we are over the briefcase. During the final run, while heading for the pinger, we passed over the bins. Our vehicle mistook them for the briefcase only for some frames, creating a false positive. Sadly it was enough to enter to grab state but our vehicle could not find the briefcase anymore since it was not there for real. Our vehicle then surfaced in the middle of Transdec. This run gave us the last rank in the final, giving us the 10th position out of 30 teams this year.
We would like to thank all our sponsors who helped us this year. Without each and every one of them we would not have been able to participate to that competition and build this vehicle. Their help was much appreciated and we hope to do business with each of them again next year.
We would also like to thank all the members who worked on the project this year. Without their help, our prototype would not be what it is today.
We would like to congratulate the teams from the University of Victoria and Rhode Island who respectively ranked 2nd and 3rd this year.
Finally, we would like to congratulate the team from Cornell University, CUAUV. They were able to complete the whole obstacle course in less than 12 minutes. They made an extraordinary job that no one has been able to do this year. With that awesome run they ranked 1st.
We will be back to the competition next year for sure so keep watching our website for updates trough out the year as we will do our best to keep you informed of our latest developments.
Good luck to every team and see you all next year!
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