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First day in San Diego

Jul 12, 2011
by SubjuGator
calibrations, competition, day1, kona kai, Twitter
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Today was our first day in San Diego. We are staying at the Kona Kai on Shelter Island, as per the usual competition host hotel. It is a great location overlooking the bay and a huge marina. We started off with a nice team breakfast at the Red Sails Inn. This is an annual event that the team participates in every year thanks to Dr. Schwartz. Our sub was supposed to arrive yesterday (Monday) at 10:30am guaranteed next day air by FedEx. The sub ended up missing a flight in memphis so it didn’t make it by Monday. The sub was delivered Tuesday morning around 11am, and we were happy to find out that FedEx refunded our shipping charge for their mistake. Good enough for us.

Once the sub arrived, we began reassembling the components which we had to take off during shipping, e.g., the two vertical thrusters and one strafe thruster. Our new Pelican case was awesome so we didn’t have to take any of the sub apart during shipping. A nice change from last year.

We ran several errands to Target, Home Depot, Von’s and a local hardware store to get extra supplies that we forgot or planned to buy. Tonight we plan to recalibrate the sub (hard and soft iron calibrations since components on the sub have moved and the earth’s magnetic field is different in cali) and dynamic current calibration since thrusters were removed and added back. Tomorrow we will head to the Transdec to begin our first day of testing at the competition facility at 7am.

Check back here on our blog for more team updates or follow us on Twitter: SubjuGatorUF. The competition is open to the public on Saturday and Sunday for the semi-finals and finals. The finals on Sunday is also broadcast live online at http://www.robosub.org.

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The Machine Intelligence Laboratory (MIL) provides a synergistic environment dedicated to the study and development of intelligent, autonomous robots. The faculty and students associated with the laboratory conduct research in the theory and realization of machine intelligence covering topics such as machine learning, real-time computer vision, statistical modeling, robot kinematics, autonomous vehicles, teleoperation and human interfaces, robot and nonlinear control, computational intelligence, neural networks, and general robotics. Applications of MIL research include autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), autonomous water surface vehicles (ASVs), autonomous land vehicles, autonomous air vehicles (AAVs including quadcopters and micro air vehicles, MAVs) , swarm robots, humanoid robots, and autonomous household robots.

MIL’s SubjuGator is the three time champion autonomous submarine of the RoboSub AUVSI/ONR underwater competition (2005-2007), and placed in the top 3 in eleven of the 21 years of the competition (including second place in 2012, 2013 and 2014). MIL’s NaviGator AMS, is the defending champion in the Maritime RobotX Challenge (from our victory in our only entry in this biennial competition in 2016). In 2013, MIL participated for the first time in the RoboBoat AUVSI/ONR water surface vechicle competition with our PropaGator robot boat; we won! In 2014, we earned second place in the RoboBoat competition. We also won the static division of the 2011 ION Robot Lawnmower competition with MIL’s InstiGator robot lawnmower.

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