The O.R.C.A. Team

Who We Are

Project ORCA is an MIT studentgroup interested in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) technology.Our main activity is constructing entries for the annual AUVcompetition. This competition, organized by Association for UnmannedVehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and the Office of Naval Research(ONR), is designed to

... advance the state-of-the-art of AUVs bychallenging a new generation of engineers to perform realisticmissions in the remote underwater environment.

MIT won first place in the 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, and 2004competitions, came in second place in the 2000 competition, and fourthplace in the 2003 competition.

	Prof. Franz Hover Faculty Supervisor
Rachel Sharples Class of 2010 Mechanical Engineering
	Yazan Aldehayyat Class of 2012 Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
Richard Dahan Class of 2012 Mechanical Engineering and Management
	Matthew Perkins Class of 2011 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Iman Fayyad Class of 2012 Architecture
	Boon Teik Ooi Class of 2012 Computer Science and Mathematics
Jean Martin Class of 2012 Aeronautics and Astronautics