5.1 Rules

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5.1 Rules

Code of Conduct: All team members must abide by the RoboNation Code of Conduct while participating in the Competition. Failure to abide by this Code of Conduct at any point during the competition season may result in the disqualification of the team and/or participants from the Competition, components of the competition, the full competition, and/or future competitions.
Vehicle Entry: Teams must build an AUV to compete and enter up to two vehicles in the competition.
1. Rookie Teams: First-year teams are eligible to participate in RoboSub without an AUV. These teams are expected to participate in Design Documentation and send representation on-site at the event as a learning experience. First-year teams must indicate this option in their registration form.
Vehicle Requirements: Teams that arrive at the competition failing to meet the vehicle requirements will not be permitted on the course, until the vehicle is modified to meet all requirements.
AUV Safety: Prior to entering the Autonomy Challenge courses, teams must demonstrate the ability to operate their AUV safely.
Team Composition: Teams must be comprised of 75% or more full-time students.
1. Team Lead: One student member of the team must be designated as the “team lead”. The team lead must be conversationally fluent in English. The team lead, and only the team lead, will speak for the team during competition runs.
Attendance: Teams must have at least one representative present onsite at the competition venue during the competition hours (8:00 am – 5:30 pm) to be eligible for prizes. If teams cannot be onsite, they must notify RoboNation staff in a timely manner.
1. Orientation Attendance: Teams must have at least one representative present for the team orientation. Teams who miss orientation will not be permitted to deploy their AUV.
Potential Damage: RoboNation is not responsible for any damage to a team’s AUV as a consequence of participating in the competition.
Competition Suspended: The officials may suspend the competition at any time they deem that it is required (i.e. for safety or security reasons).
Award Money: Only the student component of each team is eligible for award money.
Judge Decisions: All decisions of the judges are final.
Course Entry: Unless otherwise specified, no team member is allowed to enter the course at any time (this includes wading, swimming and diving as well as floats, boats, etc.) Competition officials are responsible for recovering lost vehicles. Officials make all reasonable efforts to recover a lost vehicle but cannot guarantee that they will be able to do so. All teams recognize that by entering the competition, they risk damage to or the loss of their vehicle. The judges, officials, hosts, and sponsors can take no responsibility for such damage or loss.
Retrieving Vehicle: At any time, the team lead may signal the end of the run and request the retrieval of the vehicle. Only officials may retrieve a vehicle and return it to the dock. The countdown clock for the semi-final performance period stops when the official touches the vehicle and continues its countdown once the vehicle is safely back at the starting location, or the team establishes communication with the vehicle, whichever is first (i.e. if a team has wireless communication with the vehicle, the countdown lock continues while the official returns the vehicle to the start).
Interference: If a vehicle experiences significant interference from a piece of equipment, line, cable or official deployed in support of the competition, the team lead may ask, at that time, to have the clock stopped, the vehicle returned to the dock, and for the judges to add back to the clock their best estimate of the time used in that run up to the point of interference. If the team lead does not make this request in a timely manner (as determined by the technical director) then the option is lost. Interfering with the competition tasks does not qualify for this option, and a vehicle interfering with tasks may be disqualified at the judges’ discretion.
Lock Score: After a run, a team may lock in their current score and use any remaining time to survey the arena. The survey must be completed autonomously. Unlike performing a competition run, the clock will continue to run while retrieving a vehicle. This is subject to change depending on timing and the number of teams.
Mission End: The run ends when any of the following occurs:
- The performance period time limit ends;
- The judges’ order the end of the run;
- The team lead requests the end of the run; or
- The vehicle breaches the surface outside the octagon.

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Code of Conduct: All team members must abide by the RoboNation Code of Conduct while participating in the Competition. Failure to abide by this Code of Conduct at any point during the competition season may result in the disqualification of the team and/or participants from the Competition, components of the competition, the full competition, and/or future competitions.
Vehicle Entry: Teams must build an AUV to compete and enter up to two vehicles in the competition.
1. Rookie Teams: First-year teams are eligible to participate in RoboSub without an AUV. These teams are expected to participate in Design Documentation and send representation on-site at the event as a learning experience. First-year teams must indicate this option in their registration form.
Vehicle Requirements: Teams that arrive at the competition failing to meet the vehicle requirements will not be permitted on the course, until the vehicle is modified to meet all requirements.
AUV Safety: Prior to entering the Autonomy Challenge courses, teams must demonstrate the ability to operate their AUV safely.
Team Composition: Teams must be comprised of 75% or more full-time students.
1. Team Lead: One student member of the team must be designated as the “team lead”. The team lead must be conversationally fluent in English. The team lead, and only the team lead, will speak for the team during competition runs.
Attendance: Teams must have at least one representative present onsite at the competition venue during the competition hours (8:00 am – 5:30 pm) to be eligible for prizes. If teams cannot be onsite, they must notify RoboNation staff in a timely manner.
1. Orientation Attendance: Teams must have at least one representative present for the team orientation. Teams who miss orientation will not be permitted to deploy their AUV.
Potential Damage: RoboNation is not responsible for any damage to a team’s AUV as a consequence of participating in the competition.
Competition Suspended: The officials may suspend the competition at any time they deem that it is required (i.e. for safety or security reasons).
Award Money: Only the student component of each team is eligible for award money.
Judge Decisions: All decisions of the judges are final.
Course Entry: Unless otherwise specified, no team member is allowed to enter the course at any time (this includes wading, swimming and diving as well as floats, boats, etc.) Competition officials are responsible for recovering lost vehicles. Officials make all reasonable efforts to recover a lost vehicle but cannot guarantee that they will be able to do so. All teams recognize that by entering the competition, they risk damage to or the loss of their vehicle. The judges, officials, hosts, and sponsors can take no responsibility for such damage or loss.
Retrieving Vehicle: At any time, the team lead may signal the end of the run and request the retrieval of the vehicle. Only officials may retrieve a vehicle and return it to the dock. The countdown clock for the semi-final performance period stops when the official touches the vehicle and continues its countdown once the vehicle is safely back at the starting location, or the team establishes communication with the vehicle, whichever is first (i.e. if a team has wireless communication with the vehicle, the countdown lock continues while the official returns the vehicle to the start).
Interference: If a vehicle experiences significant interference from a piece of equipment, line, cable or official deployed in support of the competition, the team lead may ask, at that time, to have the clock stopped, the vehicle returned to the dock, and for the judges to add back to the clock their best estimate of the time used in that run up to the point of interference. If the team lead does not make this request in a timely manner (as determined by the technical director) then the option is lost. Interfering with the competition tasks does not qualify for this option, and a vehicle interfering with tasks may be disqualified at the judges’ discretion.
Lock Score: After a run, a team may lock in their current score and use any remaining time to survey the arena. The survey must be completed autonomously. Unlike performing a competition run, the clock will continue to run while retrieving a vehicle. This is subject to change depending on timing and the number of teams.
Mission End: The run ends when any of the following occurs:
- The performance period time limit ends;
- The judges’ order the end of the run;
- The team lead requests the end of the run; or
- The vehicle breaches the surface outside the octagon.