Onward and Downward!
This is a video of our final run at the 2007 10th annual ONR & AUVSI Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition. In our last run we just barely missed surfacing in an octagon. Had we come up only a few inches in the direction of the octagon, we would have been in the finals.
The song that […]
This is the new design that we are leaning towards. It is based loosely on the idea of a blimp or airship with a single thruster in the front. In the coming months we will be building and testing it.
This is a short rough CAD-sketch and animation of the design.
Today’s experiment demonstrated the depth control algorithm that allows the AUV to maintain a fixed depth autonomously.
The closed loop system consists of the depth control program running on the F2812 DSP board, a pressure sensor, the two vertical thrusters and the driving MOSFET. The software continually monitors the output voltage of the pressure sensor, […]
This is the first in-water test in preperation for the 2007 competition.
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