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Team AUV · VIT Pune

Underwater vehicles, engineered end to end

A student team building autonomous underwater vehicles. Mechanical design, embedded systems, controls and perception, taken from CAD through simulation to the tank.

What we do

Design, build and validate autonomous vehicles

Design and build

AUVs for RoboSub and related challenges, from hull form and thruster layout to pressure housings and mass budget.

Sense and decide

Sensing, navigation and onboard autonomy running on embedded flight hardware, with real sonar in the loop.

Validate early

Hardware and software proven in simulation and on the bench before anything goes into a tank.

  • Mechanical
  • Embedded systems
  • Controls
  • Perception

Selected work

isonavi

Autonomous underwater reconnaissance for post-flood disaster response. A vehicle designed for opaque, fast water where divers cannot work and optical cameras see nothing.

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Station keeping envelope
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Depth rating
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Thrusters
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Acoustic detection, held out real sonar
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Technology readiness

Per subsystem, on the 9 point scale. The autonomy stack flies on real flight hardware. No physical vehicle exists yet and nothing has been in water.

  • Autonomy: estimation, control, mission logic TRL 4
  • Actuator interface TRL 4
  • Acoustic perception TRL 4
  • Geometric detection and mapping TRL 3
  • Vehicle structure and hydrodynamics TRL 3

Contact

Sponsors, collaborators and future members

VIT Pune