Meet Our 2023 RoboSubs

Our 2023 RoboSub system consisted of two Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV)

2023 Season Recognition

Special Mentorship Award

3rd Place Design Documentation

2nd Place Webpage Design

2nd Place Team Video

7th Worldwide - 3rd in the US

Onyx

ONYX robot 3D model

Weight

With 1 battery: 55.6 lb

Degrees of Freedom

3 translational (x,y,z)

3 rotational (roll, pitch, yaw)

Power System

Lithium-ion battery 14.8V, 15.6Ah (x2)

Wireless Communications

Succorfish Delphis modem

Wifi

Dimensions

24.5”w x 31”l x 19.5”h

Endurance

Normal usage: 1.5 hour runtime

Main Processor

Jetson Xavier NX

Propulsion System

T200 thruster (x8)

Full throttle FWD/REV thrust @ nominal (16V) 11.6 / 9.0 lb f

Sensors

Blue Robotics low-light camera

OAK-D Lite (x2)

OAK-D PoE

Imaging scanning sonar

Navigation System

Pixhawk orange cube

Teledyne Xplorer DVL

Software Architecture

Robot Operating System (ROS)

Payload

Gripper

Torpedo launcher

Marker dropper

Acoustics

Hydrophone array of AS-1 Hydrophones (x3) and custom digitally adjustable notch filter circuit

Græy

Graey robot 3D model

Weight

With 1 battery: 43 lb

Degrees of Freedom

3 translational (x,y,z)

3 rotational (roll, pitch, yaw)

Power System

Lithium-ion battery 14.8V, 15.6Ah

Wireless Communications

Succorfish Delphis modem

Wifi

Dimensions

22”w x 22”l x 16”h

Endurance

Normal usage: 1 hour runtime

Main Processor

Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB (companion computer)

Propulsion System

T200 thruster (x8)

Full throttle FWD/REV thrust @ nominal (16V) 11.6 / 9.0 lb f

Sensors

Blue Robotics low-light camera (x2)

Ping Echosounder sonar (x2)

Navigation System

Pixhawk orange cube

Software Architecture

Robot Operating System (ROS)