SubjuGator takes top honors in 8th Annual AUV competition

And with a name like SubjuGator, what do you expect, really? This past weekend saw the 8th Annual Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition in San Diego pitted 19 collegiate teams against each other to complete three tasks: finding a docking station, inspecting a pipeline, and surfacing in a recovery zone. The University of Florida's SubjuGator dethroned MIT to walk away the victor — an autonomous submarine designed to operate underwater at depths in excess of 32 feet. The unit is controlled by over 10 microcontrollers and peripherals, and is based on a single-board Pentium M system running Windows XP. No word if Ballmer performed the monkey dance upon hearing the news.

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[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

Greg (other contributor #2) is one of my roommates. He worked on the audio subsystem, but I haven't heard from him since the competition, so I don't know if they had to make any of the last-minute changes he thought they might have to.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

More info to be had at http://subjugator.org/

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

It's got a 60GB HDD and 1GB RAM, who would have thought that an autonomous submarine would need those sorts of capacities. I'd be curious to know the utilization factor.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:24AM]

Yes, Cornell lost...lol ...with all sponsers they got... oh boy! USC did pretty good!