{"id":65617,"date":"2007-07-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-students-place-2nd-in-international-underwater-vehicle-competition\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T00:00:00","slug":"uri-students-place-2nd-in-international-underwater-vehicle-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/07\/uri-students-place-2nd-in-international-underwater-vehicle-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 students place 2nd in international underwater vehicle competition"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tTeam brings home $4,000 prize<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 July 24, 2007 — A team of 溏心vlog免费B站 students and their coach won $4,000 for placing second in the 10th annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition, sponsored by the U.S. Office of Naval Research and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe students competed July 13 through 15 against 27 other teams \u2013 the largest field in the history of the competition \u2013 from the United States, Canada, India and Japan at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego. The University of Florida placed first, while Ecole de Technologie Superieure of Canada placed third and Cornell University placed fourth. 溏心vlog免费B站 won the competition in 2000, the first year it entered.<\/p>\n


\nThe event challenges student engineers to build a miniature robotic submarine that can self-navigate and independently perform realistic missions. This year\u2019s mission involved finding the underwater starting gate, docking at a buoy, following a pipeline, dropping a marker into a bin, detecting an acoustic beacon, and finding and retrieving a \u201ctreasure.\u201d Once launched, the vehicles had to complete the mission without any external guidance or control.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cHalf of the challenge is designing, building and programming the vehicle and preparing for the competition,\u201d explained team captain Michael Palmieri, a 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate student from Falmouth, Mass. \u201cThe other half happens at the competition itself, adjusting to the circumstances at the venue and fixing things that might go wrong. Every team had things to fix when they got there. You just hope it\u2019s not catastrophic.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nPalmeiri and teammates Georges Dossot of Farmington, Conn., Matthew Jewell of Old Lyme, Conn., and Jonathan Byron of Davis, Cal., said that the biggest obstacle was the poor visibility in the pool. Their vehicle used two video camera systems to complete its mission, but the cameras had difficulty seeing through the murky water.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe poor visibility required us to make a lot of last minute adjustments,\u201d said Jewell.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn addition to cameras, the 溏心vlog免费B站 vehicle \u2013 a 3-foot long tube sitting on a triangular base and dubbed RAM-Boat 8 \u2013 was equipped with a sonar system, four thrusters for propulsion, two Netburner microcontrollers, eight battery packs, and a grappling hook to pick up the treasure.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOur approach was very different from most of the other teams,\u201d explained Dossot. \u201cThe other teams used very expensive electronics that were over-engineered. For many of the teams, that was the source of their failure.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe seven teams that made it to the final round of competition were very closely matched, though the 溏心vlog免费B站 students said that the team from Florida was the clear winner.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIn the finals, our turn came toward the end, so we had the advantage of watching the other teams and knowing exactly what we needed to achieve to win,\u201d Byron said. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOur vehicle was also programmed not to spend too much time on any one task,\u201d said Dossot. \u201cSeveral of the other vehicles didn\u2019t have time to complete the course because they wasted so much time on a task their vehicle couldn\u2019t do.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAdded Palmieri, \u201cWe were also able to make adjustments really quickly when we needed to.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tIn the end, the competition was a tremendous learning experience that the 溏心vlog免费B站 students said was both fun and useful to their future career paths.<\/p>\n


\n\tAccording to coach Robert Tyce, a 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of ocean engineering, \u201cthe team worked hard to dramatically upgrade last year\u2019s fourth place robot with new wireless internet computers and cameras plus new custom mission software. But with 28 teams competing this year we were only 12th after the first round of judging and had lots of difficulties communicating with the robot. To the team\u2019s credit, they then worked day and night to revise their robot\u2019s programming and achieved spectacular runs on the third day when it really counted, putting 溏心vlog免费B站 in third place for the finals. We managed to pull ahead of the second place team in the finals, but the University of Florida team was unbeatable this year.\u201d <\/p>\n


\n\tIn addition to the underwater competition, the contest included preparation of a journal paper and website (oce.uri.edu\/~auv) describing how the vehicle was designed, and a visual display and inspection of the vehicle for technical merit, design, safety and craftsmanship.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn addition to Palmieri, Dossot, Jewell and Byron \u2013 all of whom were on hand in San Diego for the competition \u2013 the 溏心vlog免费B站 team included Darren Flynn of Providence, R.I., A.J. Fournier of East Hartford, Conn., Daniel Maher of Eastchester, N.Y., Andrew Valainis of Warwick, R.I., Charles Tyce of Coventry, R.I., and Gregor Langer of Braunschweig, Germany. The team was coached by Tyce and advised by 溏心vlog免费B站 Professor James Miller and industry representative Henry Sharpe III.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe 溏心vlog免费B站 team was sponsored by Raytheon Co., Harris Acoustic Products, Subconn, SeaBotix, BBN Technologies, and the 溏心vlog免费B站 Partnership for Ocean Instrumentation.<\/p>\n


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\nThe 溏心vlog免费B站 underwater vehicle team, (l-r) Coach Robert Tyce and students Michael Palmieri, Matthew Jewell, Georges Dossot and Jonathan Byron, pose with their vehicle, RamBoat-8.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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