Results of the 9th Annual Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition

Here's the final standings for the 9th Autonomous Underwater Vehicle competition:

1. University of Florida
2. Duke University
3. Ecole de technologie superieure
4. University of Rhode Island
5. University of Texas at Dallas
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7. Cornell University
8. University of Central Florida
9. North Carolina State University (this is my team!)
   
10. Southern Polytechnic State University
11. University of Toronto
12. Virginia Tech
13. University of Ottawa
14. University of Victoria
15. Amador Valley High School
    
16. Georgia Tech
17. San Diego City College
18. University of Colorado Denver
19. University of Southern California
20. Kyushu Institute of Technology
21. Indian Underwater Robotics Society

The top two teams, UF and Duke were both competing with an old vehicle. Duke has used the same vehicle for a number of years and basically has a pretty easy job of it. The same goes for Cornel, MIT, and others. UF won first place last year and has a really nice vehicle.

My team, NCSU, took 9th place. We didn't have quite enough man-power on the software side of things and has some system malfunctions the night before our second qualifier. Our vehicle is pictured up at the top.

All the teams were required to submit a jornal paper for evaluation. You can find links to all the team papers here. They're easy to read and informative.

You can find more media coverage of the event here, here, here, and here.