ITU Maslak Campus, Istanbul, Turkey auv@itu.edu.tr

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About Us

Our team started working on remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) under the ITU Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering in 2016. In order to combine their 2-year experience in underwater robotics with autonomous technologies, the team was established as ITU AUV Team in 2018.

The ITU AUV Team, which has achieved great success in competitions it has participated in Turkey and abroad, has set its main goal as representing our country and our university in the best way possible in various AUV competitions to be held in Singapore, Italy and the United States.

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Singapore AUV Challenge

The Singapore AUV Challenge (SAUVC), first organized in 2013, is a competition aimed at bringing together different disciplines to produce robots capable of performing autonomous tasks in challenging underwater conditions.

The ITU AUV Team competed in 2022 with 42 different AUV teams from 19 countries as the only team representing Turkey, and achieved World Championship by becoming the winner.

Robosub

The competition, which was first held in 1997 at the TRANSDEC owned by the United States Navy in San Diego, California, is the world's most prestigious autonomous underwater competition. It is organized by the AUVSI association and Robonation.

In 2021, we represented our country and university in the international underwater robotics community as the only team from Turkey participating in RoboSub2021, which was held online due to the COVID outbreak. We continue our efforts for RoboSub2024 with this goal in mind.

Teknofest

Our team received the Most Original Design Award, which is one of the honorable mentions given due to the inability to give ranking awards, in the Unmanned Underwater Systems competition at Teknofest 2021. There were three main reasons for being worthy of this award, which were the mechanical system, system design, and algorithm design.