RoboSub is a competition whose goal is to advance the development of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) by challenging a new generation of engineers to perform realistic missions in an underwater environment. It was launched in 1997 and is co-sponsored by the RoboNation (formerly the AUVSI Foundation) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The event also serves to foster ties between young engineers and the organizations developing AUV technologies. The competition is open to high school and college teams from around the world. Since about 2002, it has been held each summer at the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific's TRANSDEC Anechoic pool in San Diego, California. In 2022, the competition took place at the University of Maryland, College Park.
There were no live competition winners in 2021 as the competition was held online. Instead, competitors were judged on submitted videos, reports, and website. [1]
Year | 1st place | 2nd place | 3rd place |
---|---|---|---|
2024 | Si Se Puede Foundation | The Ohio State University | Cornell University |
2023 | National University of Singapore | BRAC University | University of Alberta |
2022 | National University of Singapore | Amador Valley High School | Carnegie Mellon University |
2021 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
2020 | Team Inspiration | Si Se Puede Foundation & Arizona State University | Tecnológico de Monterrey |
2019 | Harbin Engineering University | Far Eastern Federal University / Institute for Marine Technology Problems | Arizona State University Polytechnic |
2018 | Harbin Engineering University | National University of Singapore | École de Technologie Supérieure / California Institute of Technology (shared) |
2017 | Cornell University | Far Eastern Federal University | National University of Singapore |
2016 | California Institute of Technology | Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay | Cornell University |
2015 | San Diego State University | National University of Singapore | Maritime State University |
2014 | Cornell University | University of Florida | École de Technologie Supérieure |
2013 | Cornell University | University of Florida | Far Eastern Federal University |
2012 | Cornell University | University of Florida | École de Technologie Supérieure |
2011 | École de Technologie Supérieure | Cornell University | University of Florida |
2010 | Cornell University | U.S. Naval Academy | University of Maryland |
2009 | Cornell University | University of Victoria | University of Rhode Island |
2008 | University of Maryland | University of Texas at Dallas | École de Technologie Supérieure |
2007 | University of Florida | University of Rhode Island | École de Technologie Supérieure |
2006 | University of Florida | Duke University | École de Technologie Supérieure |
2005 | University of Florida | École de Technologie Supérieure | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
2004 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cornell University | École de Technologie Supérieure |
2003 | Cornell University | École de Technologie Supérieure | Duke University |
2002 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cornell University | University of Florida |
2001 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Amador Valley High School | University of Florida |
2000 | University of Rhode Island | Cornell University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (tie) | U.S. Naval Academy |
1999 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | University of Florida | Florida Atlantic University |
1998 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Stevens Institute of Technology | University of Florida |
Autonomy Challenge Awards
Design Documentation
Judges Special Awards
Per the Final Rules and Mission, "The fundamental goal of the mission is for an AUV to demonstrate its autonomy by completing an underwater Ides of TRANSDEC mission. The vehicle will be able to commence in training (dock/release buoys), pass over an obstacle course (PVC pipe to pass over), enter the gladiator ring (drop markers), Et tu Brute? (shoot torpedoes through a cutout), feed grapes to the emperor (manipulate a cylinder), and finally collect the Laurel wreath and crown the emperor (find a pinger, grab an object and move/release the object)."
Overall Winners
Video Winners
Technical Design Report Winners
Website Winners
Special Awards
Best New Team: St. Georges ($1000) Most with the Least: Florida Atlantic University ($500) Best technical paper: Kyushu ($500) TSA Award: Embry Riddle ($500) (vehicle was significantly damaged in shipping by the TSA)
École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), founded in 1974, is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and affiliated to the Université du Québec system. The school specializes in applied teaching and research in engineering as well as transferring advanced technologies to companies.
A grande école is a specialized top-level educational institution in France and some other previous French colonies such as Morocco and Tunisia. Grandes écoles are part of an alternative educational system that operates alongside the mainstream French public university system, and take the shape of institutes dedicated to teaching, research and professional training in either pure natural and social sciences, or applied sciences such as engineering, architecture, business administration, or public policy and administration.
Mines Paris – PSL, officially École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, is a French grande école and a constituent college of PSL Research University. It was originally established in 1783 by King Louis XVI.
An institute of technology is an institution of tertiary education that specializes in engineering, technology, applied science, and natural sciences.
IMT Nord Europe or École nationale supérieure Mines-Télécom Lille Douai is a French graduate school of engineering. It is located in the Hauts-de-France region, shared between 2 campuses: the science campus of the University of Lille ; and the city of Douai. It is accredited by the Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur (CTI) to deliver the French Diplôme d'Ingénieur.
The Grenoble Institute of Technology is a French technological university system consisting of eight engineering and management schools.
A concrete canoe is a canoe made of concrete, typically created for an engineering competition.
Omer is the name of a series of human-powered submarines. The submarines were built by students of the École de technologie supérieure in Montreal, Quebec, for the International Submarine Races. As of 2014, Omer teams hold the human-powered submarine world speed records for two-seater and non-propeller categories. Those records are :
The Federal University of Itajubá, is a federal university located in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is considered the first technological university and one of top ten engineering schools in Brazil. Extremely reputable among Brazilian engineering schools, it carries more than 100 years of tradition in teaching, with emphasis on Electrical Engineering – which is one of the best research institutes on Power Systems field in Latin America – Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Materials Engineering, Automation and Control engineering and Computer Engineering.
Supmicrotech is a French school of engineering. It is part of Polyméca, a network of schools focusing on mechanical engineering.
In French law, établissement public à caractère scientifique, culturel et professionnel is a formal category of more than one hundred and thirty public higher education institutes in the fields of sciences, culture and professional education. EPSCP have legal, administrative and financial autonomy in the French education system.
The Escola Politécnica of the University of São Paulo is an engineering school at the University of São Paulo (USP) in São Paulo, Brazil.
The University of Douala, is located in Douala in Cameroon. The University of Douala is one of the eight public universities of Cameroon and has around 40.000 students, 600 teachers and around 600 administrators and collaborators.
Bordeaux Institute of Technology- ENSEIRB-MATMECA School of Engineering is a French Engineering Grande École located in Bordeaux and specialized in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Science, Telecommunications, Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics.
The ESIEE Amiens is a French Graduate School of Engineering located in Amiens delivering the equivalent of a master's degree. The school was established in 1992 and is part of the ESIEE network.
ENSCI–Les Ateliers, the École nationale supérieure de création industrielle, is a French design school located in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. As a public commercial and industrial establishment under authority of both the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Industry, it is the first and only French national institute exclusively devoted to the advanced studies in design. It is a member of the Hautes Études-Sorbonne-Arts et Métiers cluster and of the Conférence des grandes écoles.
KEDGE Business School is a triple accredited French business school and grande école. The Grande Ecole was founded in 2013 from the merger of two middle business schools: Bordeaux Ecole de Management, founded in 1874 in Bordeaux; and EUROMED Management in Marseilles, founded in 1872 in Marseille. KEDGE has campuses in France ; Senegal (Dakar); Côte d'Ivoire (Abidjan); and China.
Phoeurng Sackona is a Cambodian academic, engineer and politician who is the current Minister of Culture and Fine Arts. She is a member of the Cambodian People's Party. She also serves as the President of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Technology of Cambodia. She is also the daughter-in-law of former Minister of Culture Chheng Phon.