MIT Beaver Works: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

July 2024 - August 2024

MIT BWSI

Summary: Developed autonomous control and perception software for an underwater vehicle during the MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute, where teams had four weeks to complete a competitive AUV tagging challenge. Implemented PID control, Apriltag detection and tracking, and autonomous navigation using ROS. Demonstrated system effectiveness in the final competition, where our AUV successfully located and tagged the opposing vehicle before being tagged itself.

Skills

• Software: ROS, Python