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Interested in joining the team for 2024-2025? Fill out our interest form for information about our mass meeting and to sign up for coffee chats (free coffee!) with team officers: https://forms.gle/MMrAUHdfYhWRmkTL7We are an engineering team that designs, fabricates, and programs a robotic surface vessel that can navigate obstacles and perform tasks on the open water all on its own with no human interaction. Working year-round, the team competes internationally against other autonomous boats every March in RoboNation's RoboBoat Competition in Sarasota, Florida. Last season, we took home 6th out of 28 teams, and won two awards - but this year, we're chasing the top. Our team is multidisciplinary, and has no barrier to entry - we encourage students from all different schools and colleges within the university with only a persistent curiosity and good spirits required. The goal of the team is to create a functional, efficient vessel while seeking out opportunities for learning and growth every step of the way. Bringing up questions and proposing adjustments are encouraged, as they help make a more cohesive team and a better overall product. The team is split up into five main subteams: Mechanical, Electrical, AI, Advanced Capabilities, and Business. The mechanical team designs and fabricates a new boat for competition each year, employing naval architecture and marine engineering principles to create resilient, waterproof hulls that can cut smoothly through the water, and a deck and superstructure that can support and protect the electronics housed within the boat. In addition, they provide support for mounting sensors onboard and help facilitate the boat's testing in the water in the Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory. Students majoring in ME, NAME, ISME, RE, and many others can find their interests here! Our electrical team is responsible for all electronics onboard - they ensure that the boat has a reliable, safe electrical system capable of supporting the immense amount of software running on deck, which is crucial to our overall performance. Every year, they build a full computer capable of supporting our AI team's work, designing printed circuit boards (PCBs), and protecting everything in secure housing. Students majoring in Computer and Electrical Engineering, as well as those interested in integrated systems in general, are encouraged to join! The AI team develops all of the boat's software, and consists of the bulk of our team - without them, our boat would simply be a sitting duck. Their team consists of multiple parts - Computer Vision, Task Planning, and Navigation/Controls. All of these make up a software pipeline that work in tandem to perceive tasks and obstacles, plan paths around or toward them, and navigate the boat according to that path. Computer Science and Robotics Engineering students, as well as anyone interested in programming, is encouraged to join! The Advanced Capabilities team is an interdisciplinary unit that works closely with other subteams to develop task-specific hardware and software that can vary wildly with the changes in competition challenges every year. Members work on specific mechanisms, and are responsible for everything from CAD, electronics, and embedded software, while ensuring integration with other subteams. Lastly, the Business team is what holds our team together - not only do they coordinate the finances and budget for the team, working to secure private sponsorships and manage funding, but they also market the team to the rest of the university and the world. Through outreach events, interaction with other teams and even some of our competition, to managing our technical documentation and presentation material for both our judges and the sponsors we work with, they ensure a unified brand and a team that can continue to reach new heights. While STEM students are highly encouraged, the business team also offers endless opportunities for those from any other discipline - everything f
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