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Talos RoboSub 2025 Prequalification
We are happy to announce that Talos has once again successfully prequalified for the RoboSub competition! For those unaware, prequalification is an optional autonomous challenge completed prior to the competition that proves the vehicle can autonomously navigate underwater. Doing so means the team can advance directly to the semifinals at competition, and completing it this early in the year gives an advantage when picking semifinals time slots. Thanks to everyone on the team for their continued hard work keeping Talos operational and getting it to this point this year!
Watch our prequalification run below:
Talos’ New Downwards Facing Camera
After significant design work, UWRT successfully installed a Downwards Facing Camera (DFC) inside its primary vehicle, Talos. This was done to aid with the bin and table tasks, leveraging the strength of the team’s vision models to improve the simplicity and: Read More: Talos’ New Downwards Facing Camera
UWRT Achieves Second at RoboSub 2024
This year, the team went out to California to compete in the international RoboSub competition. UWRT came prepared to put its best foot forward, but had some difficulties in the semifinals, just missing the cutoff to enter the finals. However, they were given the: Read More: UWRT Achieves Second at RoboSub 2024
Talos RoboSub Prequalification
We would like to happily announce that our vehicle, Talos, has successfully completed RoboSub prequalification! Prequalification is an optional submittable before the competition, where the team can advance directly to the semifinals without needing to qualify by: Read More: Talos RoboSub Prequalification
UWRT April 2023 Newsletter
General Subteam Updates STEMBot We have one more session of STEMBot Program where Rosemore Middle School students will compete to see which of them can get through the underwater obstacle course the fastest! These last four weeks of teaching students the: Read More: UWRT April 2023 Newsletter
UWRT March 2023 Newsletter
General Subteam Updates Electrical Team The electronics for Talos have been fully assembled! After a long time in the making, the Mark 2 electronics system has reached the point where it can run the robot. Mark 2 has taken all of the lessons learned from the previous: Read More: UWRT March 2023 Newsletter
UWRT February 2023 Newsletter
General Subteam Updates STEMBot Program Robot AssembleWithin the last few weeks, team members have been hard at work fixing up the five STEMBots that will be used in our outreach program starting February 27th. The batteries needed to be redone, a new software: Read More: UWRT February 2023 Newsletter
UWRT December 2022 Newsletter
Autumn Semester 2022 All of our subteams have continued to make progress on their goals this month. This month we are taking a break from technical subteam updates and instead will be highlighting the team’s outreach, specifically with Cristo Rey Columbus High: Read More: UWRT December 2022 Newsletter
UWRT November 2022 Newsletter
Subteam Updates Mechanical 3D Printer The team has been finalizing CAD designs based on suggestions from a prior design review. A new electronics housing was designed with improved cooling, better wire management, and is cable of supporting larger filament spools. The: Read More: UWRT November 2022 Newsletter
VectorNav Sponsorship
Author: Cole Tucker This year at Robosub, the team experienced a set of major failures with their Inertial Measurement Unit or IMU. The team encountered an issue where the driver could cause the device to enter a corrupt state and need sometimes minutes of work to: Read More: VectorNav Sponsorship
UWRT October 2022 Newsletter
Subteam Updates Mechanical Smart battery housings have been working with Navionics on the required dimensions and features. They have been researching sizing for o-ring grooves, and have done initial brain storming and concept sketching on various ideas. Some ideas: Read More: UWRT October 2022 Newsletter
UWRT September 2022 Newsletter
RoboSub Competition Standing Our hard work has paid off! During the 2022 RoboSub Competition at The University of Maryland, we competed against nearly 40 other teams from 11 different countries. Overall, we placed 3rd in Design Documentation! In addition, we received: Read More: UWRT September 2022 Newsletter
Natural Language Processing, Robots, and Research
A Quick Interview with Parth Parekh by: Isabella Richardson It’s Fall 2021, Parth Parekh and his roommates Jake Imyak and fellow UWRT member Cedric McGuire are in the midst of a difficult, yet interesting class on Natural Language Processing (NLP) at OSU. NLP is: Read More: Natural Language Processing, Robots, and Research
The Center of Mass Device
An overview of how we experimentally determine the center of mass of Tempest.
Underwater Claw Development
Author: Nathan Becker Figure 1: The final claw assembly The Problem With an underwater claw, the main challenge is having a reliable way of transmitting the motion of the motor into the jaws of the claw while keeping the motor dry to not fry its electronics. A: Read More: Underwater Claw Development
April Updates 2022
Subteam Updates Mechanical The Mechanical team meets Sundays after S’ups (noon EST) and once every week on Wednesdays at 7:00pm EST in the lab room at Dreese Labs. For more information, email richardson.1082, reach out to Isabella Richardson at Microsoft Teams: Read More: April Updates 2022
STEMBot Outreach Program
By: Matt Fisher and Parth Parekh For the past year and a half, the Underwater Robotics Team (UWRT) at Ohio State has been working hard making an affordable STEM program to reach underprivileged schools in the Columbus area. UWRT is celebrating the successful: Read More: STEMBot Outreach Program
Cameras on Maelstrom
In the underwater domain, we are quite limited as to the types of sensors we can use to understand our surroundings. Cameras (backed by a decent image processing algorithm) are the most inexpensive and reliable way to achieve this. Maelstrom has three cameras in: Read More: Cameras on Maelstrom
JLCPCB
The Underwater Robotics Team at The Ohio State University has been building robots for over a decade. The team started building robots with a handful of Remote Operated Vehicles and has, in the recent past, focused on building autonomous systems. Every year our: Read More: JLCPCB
Resilience in Robotics
The Underwater Robotics Team has kept up progress this semester in spite of the transition to online meetings. The team’s consistent meetings and drive to stay involved has led to a redesigned electrical system, improved navigation and task management systems, and a: Read More: Resilience in Robotics
The Spirit of Discovery – COVID-19 UWRT Update
As a completely student-run project organization, the OSU Underwater Robotics Team works together to design a robot that is used in the international RoboSub Competition held in California every year. More than 50 teams from around the world are tasked with designing: Read More: The Spirit of Discovery – COVID-19 UWRT Update
