Introduction & Table of Contents
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This Team Handbook contains information that teams need to compete at the 2025 RoboSub Competition. It includes task descriptions, rules, and requirements, and other guidance and specifications. Teams are encouraged to read this document for a thorough understanding of what is necessary to compete effectively.
RoboSub is an international student program established to generate, cultivate, and enhance a community of innovators by challenging new generations of engineers capable of making substantive contributions to the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) domain.. Student teams tackle fundamental challenges in the design of ocean systems, while getting hands-on experience by designing, building and testing a fully (AUV). By providing a venue and mechanism to share knowledge and innovate, students are primed for jobs in developing, documenting, testing and managing state-of-the-art systems.
The nominal winners are those teams that have scored the most points. The real winners are all those participants who have learned something lasting about working together to create an autonomous system that accomplished a challenging mission in a complex environment.
The goals of the RoboNation student competitions are to provide opportunities for students to experience the challenges of systems engineering, to develop skills in accomplishing realistic missions with autonomous vehicles, and to foster relationships between young engineers and the organizations developing and producing autonomous vehicle technologies. The objective is to produce the people who will push the envelope in the future. Competitors gain an appreciation for the tradeoffs inherent in any system design and the lessons learned in transitioning from a working bench prototype to operating reliably in the real world.
Maritime autonomous technology is critical to monitoring and healing our oceans. Developing human resources to expand this effort is even more essential.
