The RoboSub team from Washington State University is
competing in the International RoboSub Competition in San Diego this week.
More than 30 national and international teams will release
the autonomous robots they’ve spent months designing, building and testing into
an underwater obstacle course. The competition is sponsored by the Association
for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Foundation (AUVSI) and the U.S.
Office of Naval Research (ONR).
According to the AUVSI Foundation website, the goal of the
competition is to advance development of unmanned vehicles by giving the new
generation of engineers an opportunity to perform realistic missions with vehicles
they have created.