Next Meeting:

AUV Meeting

When: Tue. Nov 24, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Where: NBRF

Next Dive:

Nothing scheduled in the next 60 days

Next Event:

Nothing scheduled in the next 60 days

AUV team meetings are held every Tuesday and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the  Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility (NBRF), Building 382.

From the campus main entrance:

1. Go straight at the main gate from Route 1 and follow campus drive to the traffic circle with the big "M".
2. Turn right onto Regents Drive.
3. Turn right onto Technology Drive. It is just past the farm on the left and the Animal Science building on your left.
4. NBRF is the second building on your left. When you get to the front door, there will be a doorbell three feet to your right. Ring it and it will open after a few seconds.

You can also get directions to NBRF from  Google Maps or find it on the offical  UMD campus map.

Tortuga, R@M's AUV

Journal Paper

The 2009 Journal Paper is now complete! Download the PDF.

The 2008 Journal Paper. Download the PDF.

The 2008 sonar design manual is now available. Download the PDF.

The 2007 Journal Paper is also still available. Download the PDF.

Media Coverage

Robotics@Maryland AUV Team covered in the Los Angeles Times, July 15, 2007: It's the Super Bowl with a Science Bent: Students' creations are put to the test in an underwater robotics contest in San Diego.

Excerpt from article:

"It was time for the robotics squad from the University of Maryland to put Tortuga through its underwater paces. ‘We need to put a diagnostic on the board so we know the pressure at the surface,' said Stepan Moskovchenko, 20. Joseph Gland, 24, questioned the way the craft was descending in the practice pool.' That's not the desired angle; that's a weird, secondary, shadowed angle,' he said. 'It's trying to yaw a lot,' warned Joseph Lisee, 21, as he monitored readings on a laptop. And so it went in warm-ups for the Super Bowl of underwater robotics: the 10th annual Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Student Competition, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and co-hosted with the Assn. for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, a trade group of manufacturers. The competition ends today. At stake is a $20,000 prize and serious bragging rights wherever students of robotics assemble."