UM:Autonomy is an award winning, undergraduate team from the University of Michigan. Every year we build an autonomous boat to participate in the AUVSI (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International) Roboboat competition. The boat, which is completely designed and programmed by the students, must complete a wide range of challenges that are designed to expose students to the many difficulties of autonomous operation.
The 2013 competition includes buoy channel navigation, deploying and controlling an amphibious vehicle, target detection, capturing a flag from another moving boat and firing a dart gun at a target.