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The WSU/OC RobotX Project

A proposed partnership between Engineering Clubs of Olympic College and Washington State University at the Bremerton campus to participate in the RobotX Competition.

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What is the RobotX Competition?

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RobotX is RoboNation’s robotic competition. Through this competition, OC pre-engineering students as a team, aspire to work with WSU Engineering Students to create an autonomous surface vehicle platform(WAM-V Boat) with sensors. The ultimate goal is to compete in the RobotX Challenge that will be held in Hawaii in 2020 & 2022.

The RobotX competition is an international program where innovators can grow their potential and make substantial contributions to the robotics community. Through three distinct platforms:

• Challenge: The Maritime RobotX Challenge is an international, university-level competition designed to broaden students’ exposure to autonomy and robotic technologies in the maritime environment.
  • Student-designed-and-built autonomous robotic surface vehicles must complete a difficult series sensor of based tasks in this growing international competition.
  • Surface Vehicles are built on top of the WAM-V Maritime Vessel.
• Interactive: Launched in 2017, RobotX Interactive Forum (previously known as the RobotX Forum) is a biennial gathering of students, researchers, senior officials and industry leaders engaged in the development and use of autonomous maritime systems.
• Virtual: The Virtual RobotX (VRX) competition challenges student teams to develop innovative solutions in a simulated environment. These solutions can be integrated onto a WAM-V RobotX platform.

RobotX Team Websites

• Embry-Riddle Team RAER The Robotics Association at Embry-Riddle (RAER) draws from a large student body of all experience levels (middle school through PhD) and disciplines.
• MIT MIT and Olin College won the First International Maritime RobotX (2014) Competition.

Competition History

Advancements in autonomous vehicle technology across all domains - air, land, and water - are moving fast in public and private sectors, including academia through research and competitions. In support of these advancements, the Maritime RobotX Challenge was created. In 2012, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) launched the first biennial Maritime RobotX Challenge.

RobotX is RoboNation’s most complex robotic competition to-date. Through this competition, they aspire to engage regional partners around the Pacific Rim while creating a new, high-level competition focused on autonomous surface vehicle platforms and sensors.

Last three RobotX Challenges held

2018 RobotX Challenge: Honolulu, Hawaii

Competition Documents

• 2018 Competition Rules
• 2018 Scoring Guidance
• 2018 RobotX Tasks

Team Engineering Papers

• 2018 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• 2018 University of Florida
• 2018 Old Dominion University
• 2018 The University of Newcastle
• The University of Sydney
• University of Michigan
• Queensland University of Technology
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Osaka University

WSU/OC Proposed Team Organization Breakdown

WSU Engineering Clubs

RobotX Team

OC Engineering Club

Active Partnering

Project Management

Marine Science & Technology

Team Management

Public Relations

Fundraising

ME Students

EE Students

CS Students

Math Students

Software Development

A Word from the Secretary of the Navy

Today, our Navy is less than half as large as when it last faced a major peer competitor in the late 1980s. Meanwhile, U.S. gross domestic product has grown from $5 trillion in 1988 to $19.5 trillion. Our trade by sea has since tripled, from $230 billion to over $880 billion... ...We are also considering how unmanned surface and subsurface platforms not traditionally counted as “battle force ships” (mostly because they have never existed at scale) should figure into our force mix...

References

https://robotx.org/
https://www.onr.navy.mil/
https://robonation.org/