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    The Cambridge Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team develop, design & manufacture general-purpose Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) for science & exploration. The submarines are designed to operate in shallow water (<80m), performing a variety of underwater autonomous tasks. The team is principally composed of Cambridge University students, who work on all aspects of the mechanical, electronic & software design of the AUVs.

     

    With the project founded in 2006, four unique AUVs have been designed & built to date. Our current AUV ('Barracuda') was completed in July 2012, and is currently undergoing improvments. The team competes in the annual Students Autonomous Underwater Challenge – Europe (SAUC-E) competition, which is currently hosted in La Spezia, Italy. The project also has a longer term goal to aid academic research underneath Arctic ice sheets, for which bore-hole deployment of an AUV would significantly help research efforts.

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    • 04/10/2012: CUSU Societies Fair & Freshers Squash As always, this year CAUV attended the CUSU societies fair - a huge collection of hundreds of university societies and groups, advertising themselves to new students of the university. The CAUV team jeb90
    • 02/08/2012: CAUV on NATO TV CAUV has featured heavily in the NATO coverage of the SAUC-E competition, with our very own Ralph Barton taking the starring role!     andy
    • 25/07/2012: SAUC-E 2012 – a roundup   This has been a huge year for CAUV. With stronger industry support than ever before, we set about the design and build of Barracuda, a new vehicle to meet CAUV&rsquo;s long term goals. The ambitiou ralph
    • 12/07/2012: Barracuda qualifies for the finals! CAUV has just qualified for SAUC-E 2012! This means that we will be able to take part in the finals tomorrow, where teams get 30 minute or 1 hour slots for their vehicle autonomously navigate the unde ralph
    • 10/07/2012: Barracuda at SAUC-E 2012 in Italy The weeks of assembly, months of manufacture and intensive year of design are finally bearing fruit! After four days soldering, scripting and sculpting buoyancy foam under the Italian sun, we finally ralph

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