SONIA 2001 : Take II

摘要

SONIA 2001 is an autonomous submarine project that has been built by the école dernTechnologie Supérieure to compete for a second time in the AUVSI's 4th InternationalrnAutonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition.rnThe result is an impressive design that fits in a box 5’ long (6’ if we include the robotrngripper), 3’ in width and 2’ high with a dry weight of 180 pounds. It has a top speed of 0.5rnm/s and autonomy of up to one hour.rnSensors provide information on attitude, altitude, depth and forward object detection. Anrnarray of three hydrophones provides the submarine with a ping rate and a vector toward thernunderwater pinger.rnTwo thrusters provide forward, vertical, pitch and rotational motion while a robot gripperrnpermits retrieving simple objects such as the competition’s recovery marker.