MOOS-DAWG'13

Autonomy Competition Sponsor: Battelle

Battelle is the primary sponsor for the MOOS-DAWG'13 marine autonomy competition. They have funded the development of the new MIT course, 2.680 Marine Autonomy Sensing and Communications, which contains autonomy competitions like this one as part of the student lab work. They have funded the acquisition of the Kingfisher unmanned vehicles (shown below) used in this competition. They have co-funded the build-out and lease of the new laboratory facilities at the Autonomy Bay at the MIT Sailing Pavilion. They have also funded the development of the 2014 autonomy competition, the Hunter-Prey challenge problem, involving multiple unmanned surface vehicles hunting for an evading underwater vehicle. Battelle has also sponsored the further developments of core MOOS comprising MOOS-V10 over the last 12 months. We are forever grateful for their support. Battelle POC, Dr. Robert Carnes.

Hardware Sponsors: Clearpath Robotics, Scientific Systems Company Inc. (SSCI)

The hardware used in the MOOS-DAWG'13 Autonomy Competition is the Clearpath Robotics Kingfisher platform. MIT presently owns and operates four M100 platforms shown on the left below, and we expect to be additionally using two of the newer M200 platforms by the time of the competition in July. Primary funding for the vehicles has been provided by http://www.battelle.org. Additional support has been provided by Clearpath Robotics in the form of generous educational discounts, and Scientific Systems Company, Inc., in the form of a donated M200 platform.