SubjuGator repeats at 9th annual AUV competition

by Donald Melanson, posted Aug 9th 2006 at 2:36PM

Those peeps from the University of Florida's still awesomely-named SubjuGator team have dominated the annual Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition once again this year, repeating their hard-fought victory from last year's event. Like last year, the competition entailed finding a docking station, inspecting a pipeline, and surfacing in a recovery zone, all autonomously, of course. The SubjuGator bot itself, however, went under some major changes for this year's event, with about 70% new parts, although it's still based on a single-board Pentium M system running Windows XP. We'd suggest the other teams start working to increase their game now, cause the odds seem to be shaping up well for a three-peat.

[Thanks Sean C]

Filed under: Robots

Tags: autonomous underwater vehicle, autonomous underwater vehicle competition, AutonomousUnderwaterVehicle, AutonomousUnderwaterVehicleCompetition, auv, subjugator

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CJ @ Aug 9th 2006 3:10PM

Yabbut I'm just so nervous that they're going to be going for their three-peat and blue screen...

Has no one ever heard of Linux or (as much as I hate to say it) Mac? IMHO, Windows has too much "prettification" to be a true autonomous system.

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Jay @ Aug 9th 2006 4:18PM

GO GATORS!!!

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Ron Carovano @ Aug 9th 2006 4:50PM

I second the motion! GO GATORS!!!!!

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Tyler @ Aug 9th 2006 10:47PM

Go Gators!!! and IN YOUR FACE, all of you that thought we only won sports championships and that your puny schools were where real research and development happened.

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a10 @ Aug 10th 2006 1:16AM

This weekend was also the first SAUC-E (Students Autonomous Underwater Challenge - Europe) competition. The winner was a team from Girona (Catalonia, Spain) that used linux as the main OS.

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joe @ Aug 10th 2006 11:17AM

i, for one, welcome our submarine robot overlords

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Kyle @ Aug 11th 2006 1:25PM

CJ - why the XP hate? Obviously it has worked for them twice...whereas I'm sure there are plenty of *losers* who used linux based systems...they're probably just not using any crap drivers from 3rd parties -- the cause of most of those blue screens...

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William @ Aug 13th 2006 4:49PM

I've posted the final standings and links to all the competitor's websites here:

http://www.gorobotics.net/The-News/Latest-News/Results-of-the-9th-Annual-Autonomous-Underwater-Vehicle-Competition/

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Xchus @ Sep 19th 2006 5:44PM

Hell yeah, Go Gators! and this is not the only competition that we have won, our Micro Air Vehicle team has won many competitions too, among other competitions. So again Go Gators!!!!

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