Press

Competition Papers

Conference and Journal Publications

Azi-Drive: A Novel Thruster Mapper for Twin Propeller Maritime Vessels
PropaGator 2: A Planing Autonomous Surface Vehicle with Azimuth Rim-Driven Thrusters
Controlling an Overactuated Vehicle with Application to an Autonomous Surface Vehicle Utilizing Azimuth Thrusters
UAV Performing Autonomous Landing on USV Utilizing the Robot Operating System

Press Announcements

RoboBoats show off their moves in ONR competition, July 20, 2015
PropaGator Practices for Competition, June 27, 2015
Tribal youth close out 2014 with holiday atmosphere and emphasis on STEM, January 9, 2015
UF Engineers Display Intelligent Machines at Robot Demo Day, December 10, 2014
UF lab makes robots with common tech, October 27, 2014
Students help Navy build RoboBoats, July 31, 2014
Students’ robots to be demonstrated in New Engineering Building, April 22, 2014
Ro, ro, robot boat wins first place, July 17, 2013
Robotic boats have mind of their own on water, July 15, 2013

Winner of the 2013 RoboBoat competition, PropaGator is an autonomous surface vehicle designed and built by students at the Machine Intelligence Lab (MIL) at the University of Florida. This is the third year the University of Florida has participated in the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) Foundation’s surface vehicle competition. The PropaGator team is comprised of graduate and undergraduate students of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering.

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