Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle Systems & Intelligent Robotics (AUVSIR) RoverSub

The focus of this project has been to expand into a field of adaptability with development of the amphibious “RoverSub”. The Oregon Tech AUVSIR Club has been a dominantly “RoboSub” club, where the focus has been on an underwater robot dedicated to completing varying unique challenges. These tasks are translatable to real-world interactions between robots and necessary future work, but we at AUVSIR believe that there is an untapped capability for current robotics to expand into multiple fields of navigation and environment traversal to explore wider arrays of missions. Combining both land, water, and even air in the future, all in a singular package, will open up the ability for intuitive exploratory and sustainable platforms. These platforms will be able to engage missions on other planets with arduous and inconsistent terrain environments, most specifically including icy/deep water moons and planets such as Europa, Triton, and others. The on-board package for this “RoverSub” will include an autonomous navigational control system, complemented by internal measurement units, external sensors, and our intuitive stereo vision system. The coded system behind all this is meant to be hyper-aware, taking many things into account. The entire platform is meant to be modular, easily repairable/replaceable, and even fully self-sustaining with future development goals.