The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division, Keyport, in conjunction with the Office of Naval Research (ONR)/NavalX, are sponsoring a prize challenge focused on unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) autonomy (hereinafter referred to as “the Challenge”).
The Navy seeks to enhance the quality of the self-governing controls and functionality of UUVs by developing autonomous algorithms to perform various missions. For the Challenge, participants are expected to develop Robot Operations System (ROS)-based code to perform mission planning and detection of environmental hazards, especially in tires that dive teams are attempting to remediate which were left over from misguided attempts of reef-building efforts during the 1970s. The Navy’s goal in this challenge is to provide data/information to make the remediation more efficient and effective.
NUWC Keyport has established $50,000 as the total amount set aside for cash prizes under this Challenge.
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