international unmanned surface vehicles competition singapore 2014
INTERNATIONAL UNMANNED SURFACE VEHICLES COMPETITION SINGAPORE 2014 Meeting with ONR 21 Feb 2012 @ DRTech 4-44e
Agenda • Competition Objectives • Venue and Date • Concept – – – – – –
Key Tasks Standard USV Platform Judging Criteria Participants Workshop/Symposium Prizes and award/Grant to participants
• Committee • Planning Timeline • Beyond 2014 • 22 Feb - Opportunity to visit the site and walk the ground
Objectives • To foster student interest in robotics and autonomous systems operating in the maritime domain. • To promote discussions and collaborations on innovative technologies and approaches with universities and organizations developing autonomous unmanned vehicle technologies.
Venue and Date • The Floating Platform @ Marina Bay • Aug/Sep 2014 – National Day Parade 9 Aug – F1 Race 21-23 Sep
Key Tasks • To demonstrate autonomy in navigation. • To demonstrate obstacle avoidance capabilities. • To demonstrate launching and recovering of subsystem. • To demonstrate docking with other platform, moving or stationary. • To demonstrate object identification, both above and underwater.
Standard USV Platform
Provided by Kelly Cooper, ONR
Judging Criteria • Paper, oral presentation, website, and inwater performance components. • To foster interactions and sharing among the participants, tasks and rules that require 2 or more universities to perform the tasks together could be included.
Participants • Suggest participation at University level instead of at National Level. • NUS, NTU and SUTD in Singapore have expressed interest to participate. • ONR’s considerations to limit it to only 4 teams.
Workshop/Symposium • To conduct workshop/symposium as part of the competition programme.
Prizes and award/Grant • For discussions. • RoboBoat 2011 for top teams are as follows : 1st Place - ($6,000), 2nd Place - ($4,000), 3rd Place - ($3,000), 4th Place - ($2,000), 5th Place - ($1,000), 6th Place - ($500), 7th Place - ($500). Awards ($500) such as Best paper, Best presentation, Best performance may also be awarded.)
Organising Committee • Chairmen – Prof Chan Eng Soon, Dean Engineering NUS – Dr Chan Yew Wing, Dy CRTO DRTech
• Two Committee – Technical Committee – Event Committee – ONR and AUVSI participation – DARPA?
Planning Timeline Mar 12
Set up of Organising Committee.
Aug 12
Formulation of competition format, rules & regulations and Judging criteria.
Oct 12 Oct 12
Set up of Website, promulgate details of the competition. Invitation to participate
Dec12
Confirm participants
Jan 13 – Aug 14
Design and build phase
Sep 14
Singapore International USV Competition
Beyond 2014 • Competition could be hosted by other countries. ONR to host in 2015? • Could expand to include multi-vessel, multi-domain competition.
Budget/Financial Considerations • ONR as a sponsor of the activity. • Sponsoring Program Officer for this and future follow-up event. • Funding sources.
Any Other Matters
Agenda • Competition Objectives • Venue and Date • Concept – – – – – –
Key Tasks Standard USV Platform Judging Criteria Participants Workshop/Symposium Prizes and award/Grant to participants
• Committee • Planning Timeline • Beyond 2014 • 22 Feb - Opportunity to visit the site and walk the ground
Objectives • To foster student interest in robotics and autonomous systems operating in the maritime domain. • To promote discussions and collaborations on innovative technologies and approaches with universities and organizations developing autonomous unmanned vehicle technologies.
Venue and Date • The Floating Platform @ Marina Bay • Aug/Sep 2014 – National Day Parade 9 Aug – F1 Race 21-23 Sep
Key Tasks • To demonstrate autonomy in navigation. • To demonstrate obstacle avoidance capabilities. • To demonstrate launching and recovering of subsystem. • To demonstrate docking with other platform, moving or stationary. • To demonstrate object identification, both above and underwater.
Standard USV Platform
Provided by Kelly Cooper, ONR
Judging Criteria • Paper, oral presentation, website, and inwater performance components. • To foster interactions and sharing among the participants, tasks and rules that require 2 or more universities to perform the tasks together could be included.
Participants • Suggest participation at University level instead of at National Level. • NUS, NTU and SUTD in Singapore have expressed interest to participate. • ONR’s considerations to limit it to only 4 teams.
Workshop/Symposium • To conduct workshop/symposium as part of the competition programme.
Prizes and award/Grant • For discussions. • RoboBoat 2011 for top teams are as follows : 1st Place - ($6,000), 2nd Place - ($4,000), 3rd Place - ($3,000), 4th Place - ($2,000), 5th Place - ($1,000), 6th Place - ($500), 7th Place - ($500). Awards ($500) such as Best paper, Best presentation, Best performance may also be awarded.)
Organising Committee • Chairmen – Prof Chan Eng Soon, Dean Engineering NUS – Dr Chan Yew Wing, Dy CRTO DRTech
• Two Committee – Technical Committee – Event Committee – ONR and AUVSI participation – DARPA?
Planning Timeline Mar 12
Set up of Organising Committee.
Aug 12
Formulation of competition format, rules & regulations and Judging criteria.
Oct 12 Oct 12
Set up of Website, promulgate details of the competition. Invitation to participate
Dec12
Confirm participants
Jan 13 – Aug 14
Design and build phase
Sep 14
Singapore International USV Competition
Beyond 2014 • Competition could be hosted by other countries. ONR to host in 2015? • Could expand to include multi-vessel, multi-domain competition.
Budget/Financial Considerations • ONR as a sponsor of the activity. • Sponsoring Program Officer for this and future follow-up event. • Funding sources.
Any Other Matters
