{"id":24440,"date":"2011-06-14T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=24440"},"modified":"2022-07-29T12:53:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:53:09","slug":"robotics-club-does-it-again-at-roboboat-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/robotics-club-does-it-again-at-roboboat-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotics Club Does It Again at RoboBoat Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition only just completed, the Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ Robotics Club hit the road to Virginia Beach, VA, to participate in the Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) International RoboBoats competition.<\/p>\n

The club brought back a 2nd place and a check for $4,000.00 for the second consecutive year. Sponsored by Army Research Lab’s (ARL) Simulation and Training Technology Center (STTC) and the Institute for Simulation & Training (IST), they competed against 14 other schools from as far away as Taiwan.<\/p>\n

Students are required to design and build an autonomous surface vehicle<\/a> capable of, without any human intervention, channel navigation, obstacle avoidance and other advanced tasks such as spraying water onto shoreline targets. The Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ platform, Boatname the Brave, repeatedly passed through the departing gates and navigated a channel of red, green, and yellow buoys using a suite of sensors that includes a digital compass, laser range finder and digital camera.<\/p>\n

Those watching the live status updates on Facebook over the weekend saw how Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ pushed through multiple challenges such as motor and electronics failure, and pulled together as a team to achieve the best channel navigation capability they have ever performed at the event.<\/p>\n

More information about the event, including video recaps, can be found at RoboBoat.org. More about the Robotics Club and the team is at Robotics.Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½.edu<\/a> and Robotics at Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½ on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Â鶹ӳ»­´«Ã½’s Robotics Club does it again with a 2nd place win at the autonomous surface vehicle RoboBoats competition in Virginia Beach, VA.","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":24445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[1158,2305,4034],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-24440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology","category-student-life","tag-daniel-barber","tag-institute-for-simulation-and-training","tag-robotics"],"yoast_head":"\nRobotics Club Does It Again at RoboBoat Trials | 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