Some Background
For those of you who happen to stumble across this site without a proper introduction, perhaps I should let you know what this whole thing is about.
I am one of the senior members of the AUV team at the University of Texas at Dallas. We are preparing an entry for
AUVSI's
9th International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition. Fundamentally, we have to make a robotic submarine that performs several tasks underwater completely without human interaction. I will try to explain the various bits we need to do as I talk about the state of the various systems that try to accomplish each task. If you don't want to wait for that, you can read the official
mission.