2000 AUV Competition

For the 2000 AUV competition, we had to build a submarine that was capable of being released by a team of navy divers, and with the touch of a button send the vehicle on its way.

The competition was judges with points, for every requirement the vehicle completed it received a certain number of points as displayed in the table below. We broke the mission down and prioritized each requirement based on difficulty and point benefits, as I will list now.

  • Performance Measures 

    • Autonomous Control - Necessary for all other aspects of the mission, therefore will be required to achieve before anything else.

    • Determining the ping rate - Does not require being near the beacon however is necessary for all other performance points.

    • Flash Rate - if using the ping we are able to triangulate the beacon then we can home in on it and once in close proximity determine the flash rate.

    • Return the Recovery Marker - Obviously if this can be achieved all other requirements will be met and therefore it places low on the list.

    • Time - Insignificant unless multiple teams return the Recovery Marker.

  • Subjective Measures

    • Achieve as many points as possible on all of them in no particular order.

Performance Measures Max. Points
Determine the ping rate of the beacon 100
Qualified entry that, fully autonomously, dives and travels at least 5 meters underwater in a controlled manner 200
Determine the flash rate of the beacon 300
Return the recovery marker 1000
Finishing the mission with T minutes (whole or fractional) remaining of the 30 minutes allotted for the task T * 50
Subjective Measures  Max. Points
Technical Merit (from Journal Paper) 150
Written Style (from Journal Paper) 150
Safety of Design (From Static Judging) 100
Technical Merit (From Static Judging) 100
Craftsmanship (From Static Judging) 100
Team uniform (From Static Judging) 10
Discretionary Points (Awarded After Last Competition Run) 90

The Difficulties of all the requirements for the performance measures only yielded partial points of the autonomous control for our team, however we did really well with our Journal Paper and Static Judging, which left us with 6th place as viewable in the below points breakdown.

Category Max Pts AVHS Cal Poly Cornell ETS FAU MIT
Technical Merit 150 124 122 131 116 126 141
Written Style 150 128 125 131 117 122 142
Safety of Design (Static Judging) 100 90 78 94 69 88 91
Technical Merit (Static Judging) 100 89 80 94 65 87 91
Craftsmanship (Static Judging) 100 84 80 93 64 85 87
Uniform (Static) 10 8 4 8 8 6 6
Discretionary Points 90 78 75 79 76 72 72
Sub-Total 700 601 564 630 515 586 630
Determine Ping Rate 100 0 0 100 0 0 100
Travel 5m w/control 200 150 200 200 0 0 200
Determine Flash Rate 300 0 0 0 0 0 0
Return Recovery Marker 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finish Mission T minutes early T*50 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 3800 751 764 930 515 586 930
               
Category Max Pts Stevens UCD UF URI USNA UWF
Technical Merit 150 131 126 140 117 127 116
Written Style 150 127 131 144 112 128 120
Safety of Design (Static Judging) 100 93 79 88 92 93 85
Technical Merit (Static Judging) 100 92 78 90 89 86 81
Craftsmanship (Static Judging) 100 93 74 89 93 89 85
Uniform (Static) 10 8 7 6 9 7 8
Discretionary Points 90 75 70 77 82 78 78
Sub-Total 700 619 565 634 594 608 573
Determine Ping Rate 100 0 0 0 0 0 0
Travel 5m w/control 200 100 0 100 200 200 200
Determine Flash Rate 300 0 0 0 300 0 0
Return Recovery Marker 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0
Finish Mission T minutes early T*50 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 3800 719 565 734 1094 808 773
 

Competitors - Ordered from first place to last

We learned a lot from this mission and plan to take this knowledge to the next level in the following year's competitions.

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