An Autonomous Submarine

The simplest description of the project is a submarine robot. This vehicle must be completely autonomous, (having no tether or outside control) and capable of sucessfully negotiating a course set forth by the contest hosts. The mission describes the functions and capabilities needed to sucessfully complete the coarse. These can change from year to year and are posted by the contest holders in the spring around March, giving each team time to adjust their designs to accomodate the mission. The submarine must first and formost negotiate and navigate the environment of the mission. Secondly, a series of sensors for determining position, external communications with devices planted by the contest host, and finding structures and targets defined by the mission statement. Thirdly do all this better and faster than everybody else.