MUN RoboSub AUV

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About MUN RoboSub

MUN RoboSub is an engineering student group at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN). The group is comprised of engineering students with diverse backgrounds working on bringing a concept to reality. Designing a Bio-inspired Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to represent MUN in the RoboSub AUV International Competition, held each summer at the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific's TRANSDEC Anechoic pool in San Diego, California.

What is an AUV?

AUVs are unmanned underwater systems intelligent enough to perform sub-sea navigation and other purpose-specific operations. Major applications include commercial, research and military, and operations include ocean mapping and survey, underwater asset inspection, water sample investigations and underwater warfare etc. At a low level of analysis, the AUV is capable of such applications by integrating a variety of sensorscombined with a means of propulsion(hardware), control(software) and a power supply, which translates to how long the vehicle can be operational.

Figure (on the left) shows the classic Remus AUV developed by Hydroid as an example.

What is RoboSub Competition?

RoboSub is an international student competition. Student teams from around the world design and build robotic submarines, otherwise known as Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV). The behaviors demonstrated by these experimental AUVs mimics those of real-world systems, currently deployed around the world for underwater exploration, seafloor mapping, and sonar localization, amongst many others.

Learn more about RoboSub on their official website here.