Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (CUAUV)
The Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (CUAUV) team is a group of over 40 students ranging from freshmen to PhDs who work together to build robotic submarines.
The team brings together students from eight majors in three different schools in a multidisciplinary effort to solve a complex problem. The primary goal of the team is to win the AUVSI/ONR autonomous underwater vehicle competition. The team has been very successful at the competitions, having won the overall competition two years in a row and taken first place for design for the past five years running.
As the team has matured, a secondary goal has emerged—to apply the vehicle as a research tool in Cayuga Lake to assist in local environmental efforts. Throughout these pursuits, CUAUV is dedicated to providing Cornell engineering students, especially undergraduate students, with a wide exposure to team oriented design experiences. The team and vehicle have been featured numerous times at oceanographic and unmanned conferences and in
magazines and is highly regarded in industry.
Faculty Advisors
Professor Graeme Bailey, CS
Professor Alan Zehnder, MAE
Bruce Land, ECE
Team Leader
Markus Burkardt
