description: "LazerShark is our first Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and was engineered for the 2025 <a href='{{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/robosub'> RoboSub</a> Competition. The vehicle was designed, manufactured, and tested over the course of one year by a small team of students–most of whom had prior experience with ROVs through the MATE competition, but no background in AUVs. With limited time, resources, and team capacity, we focused on optimizing for fast iteration, simplicity, modularity, future expandability, and reliability over creating a polished final product. <br>We built the majority of subsystems in-house, including the chassis, electrical box, and custom PCBs. Wherever possible, we reused components, tools, and knowledge from our past ROV projects. This gave us a head start on core systems such as the electrical stack-up, enclosure design and embedded software stack.<br>The result is a modular AUV built to take on the challenges of autonomous underwater navigation. Although the LazerShark is not the final evolution of the CRC’s AUVs, it reflects a year-long journey of trade-offs, rapid learning, and practical engineering grounded in our team’s prior experience."
0 commit comments