What is an ROV:
ROV stands for Remote Operated Vehicle. Our vehicle will travel underwater and complete a number of tasks within a time limit. The operator will use video cameras and controlers to move the device through mazes and pick up objects.
The Competition:
The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center and the Marine
Technology Society’s (MTS) ROV Committee to organize the annual ROV design
and building competition for
high school and college students. Employers – industry, businesses, government
agencies, and research organizations – and working professionals are becoming
involved
in the event by donating funds, building supplies, equipment, and facilities
and
volunteering their time and technical expertise as mentors, technical assistants,
and
judges to support the competing teams.
Who Are We:
President: Heather
Secretary: Lauren
Treasurer: Bridget and Thaddeus
Advisors: Alex and Franz
Our Mission:
This year we will be competing at the Natural Bouency Lab at NASA in Houston Texas. The competition will consist of a 40 foot dive through a two feet by two feet hole. Once at the bottom we have to recover science probes, restart a comunications link, and take the temperature of a water stream as well as take a fluid sample. The story is that a previous trip to Europa, a planet of Jupiter, has failed and we have to help revive and recover that mission. It looks to be a lot of fun, and we look to take the gold home this year.
MISSION TO EUROPA
The EXPLORER class underwater competition sends teams on a simulated mission to Europa, one of the six known moons to orbit the planet Jupiter. Europa is believed to have an ocean of water beneath its icy surface.
EXPLORER class teams will get one attempt at the mission to Europa. That score will be added to the engineering and communication score to determine the total, overall score for the competition.
The mission to Europa consists of 4 tasks. Each task is worth 30 points with
the possibility of a time bonus score. The time allotted to complete these 4
mission tasks (i.e., the mission performance period) is 30 minutes, plus 5 minutes
to set up your system and 5 minutes to demobilize your equipment and exit the
control shack. Your team will receive 1 point for every minute and 0.01 point
for every second under 30 minutes remaining. Your ROV does not need to return
to the surface between mission tasks.