Underwater ROV, Cal Poly Robotics
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We're a new team working on an on-going Cal Poly Robotics club project, and just qualified to go to the international MATE competition with our Underwater ROV! This means we need to take 6-10 people, and our ROV, to St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada from June 24-28th, 2015. Our team consists of 1st-4th year Computer Science, Mechanical, Materials, and Electrical Engineering majors at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Since the competition is after finals, we'll be coming from various parts of California and its surroundings. Plane tickets will be $800-1100 apiece, we need lodging while we're at the competition, and we have to pay to ship our ROV (affectionately called "Santiago", although the name is somewhat contested)
We've put a lot of time and effort into designing, building, and testing this ROV, and are continuing to develop its capabilities for competition in St. John's. Please help us get there!
Our ROV in the pool during a practice run before qualifiers. It has to remove the black cap, insert a smaller ring, and replace the cap. Then it has to insert a pipe into the arm sticking out to the left.
This is what the bot looks like now. At the beginning of the year, it looked like this:
We've added functional modules to its frame, enabling us to lift and insert things underwater.
More background and motivation:
The underwater robotics project of Cal Poly Robotics Club has been on-going for several years, but this is the first year we have the personnel, ambition, and ability to build an Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (UROV) to compete in the 2015 Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Competition. The MATE competition is designed for teams to build UROVs capable of performing underwater tasks required in real life. Although our project has been small in the past, it is a valuable interdisciplinary experience for the project members to build a bot whose electrical and mechanical systems are successfully integrated to complete mission objectives at the MATE competition. We made a UROV chassis last year, and are now prepared to do something new for Cal Poly Robotics, taking the club to an international competition that will both challenge us and gain recognition for Cal Poly in the underwater robotics field. This expansion in project goals has brought an expanded need for funding, and we are no longer able to rely on the small funds from CP Robotics that have kept us alive in the past. The competition is more than simply meeting action objectives with the UROV; it also requires each team to write and submit a technical paper that will be published online, and present their work to the judges during the competition. The electrical and mechanical design, manufacturing, coding, and testing will challenge team members of different disciplines to collaborate on designing, manufacturing, and implementing all systems, as well as utilizing our communication capabilities to document and promote the UROV.
Since the competition is after finals, we'll be coming from various parts of California and its surroundings. Plane tickets will be $800-1100 apiece, we need lodging while we're at the competition, and we have to pay to ship our ROV (affectionately called "Santiago", although the name is somewhat contested)
We've put a lot of time and effort into designing, building, and testing this ROV, and are continuing to develop its capabilities for competition in St. John's. Please help us get there!
Our ROV in the pool during a practice run before qualifiers. It has to remove the black cap, insert a smaller ring, and replace the cap. Then it has to insert a pipe into the arm sticking out to the left.
This is what the bot looks like now. At the beginning of the year, it looked like this:
We've added functional modules to its frame, enabling us to lift and insert things underwater.More background and motivation:
The underwater robotics project of Cal Poly Robotics Club has been on-going for several years, but this is the first year we have the personnel, ambition, and ability to build an Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (UROV) to compete in the 2015 Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Competition. The MATE competition is designed for teams to build UROVs capable of performing underwater tasks required in real life. Although our project has been small in the past, it is a valuable interdisciplinary experience for the project members to build a bot whose electrical and mechanical systems are successfully integrated to complete mission objectives at the MATE competition. We made a UROV chassis last year, and are now prepared to do something new for Cal Poly Robotics, taking the club to an international competition that will both challenge us and gain recognition for Cal Poly in the underwater robotics field. This expansion in project goals has brought an expanded need for funding, and we are no longer able to rely on the small funds from CP Robotics that have kept us alive in the past. The competition is more than simply meeting action objectives with the UROV; it also requires each team to write and submit a technical paper that will be published online, and present their work to the judges during the competition. The electrical and mechanical design, manufacturing, coding, and testing will challenge team members of different disciplines to collaborate on designing, manufacturing, and implementing all systems, as well as utilizing our communication capabilities to document and promote the UROV.
Organizer
Shelby Boyd
Organizer
San Luis Obispo, CA