New Wave Media

Teledyne RD Instruments, a company in acoustic Doppler current profiling and navigation innovations, is a cosponsor in the 18th annual international RoboSub AUV competition, a STEM event held in San Diego and open to the community free of charge. Cosponsoring as part of the Teledyne Marine group of companies, Teledyne RD Instruments has been sponsoring this event for more than a decade. Along with cosponsoring the event, the company adds it is also the Doppler velocity log (DVL) supplier of choice for several teams competing this year.

 

“Giving back to the student engineering community is very important to us, and cosponsoring this engaging competition has always been rewarding in many ways,” said Harry Maxfield, vice president of sales and marketing at Teledyne RD Instruments. “Organizations such as the AUVSI Foundation are the cornerstones that foster the professional growth of tomorrow’s scientists and engineers.”

 

Presented by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Foundation (AUVSI), the competition is open to high school students and college teams from around the world. According to the official rules of RoboSub 2015, the goal of the competition is to “provide opportunities for students to experience the challenges of system engineering, to develop skills in accomplishing realistic missions with autonomous vehicles and to foster relationships between young engineers and the organizations developing and producing autonomous vehicle technologies.”

 

Other Teledyne Marine companies cosponsoring the event include Teledyne Impulse, as well as Teledyne SeaBotix, which will be hosting an on-site Thruster Pit Stop where they will service and repair thrusters for competing teams. Additionally, all five winning teams in last year’s competition were powered by Teledyne SeaBotix thrusters. 

 

The competition will be held July 20-26 at SSC Pacific TRANSDEC in San Diego.