Our team started working on remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) under the ITU Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering in 2016. In order to combine their 2-year experience in underwater robotics with autonomous technologies, the team was established as ITU AUV Team in 2018.
The ITU AUV Team, which has achieved great success in competitions it has participated in Turkey and abroad, has set its main goal as representing our country and our university in the best way possible in various AUV competitions to be held in Singapore, Italy and the United States.
ContactThe competition, which was first held in 1997 at the TRANSDEC owned by the United States Navy in San Diego, California, is the world's most prestigious autonomous underwater competition. It is organized by the AUVSI association and Robonation.
As ITU AUV Team, we continue our preparations for the RoboSub 2025 competition with the strength we have gained from our previous successes. Our team continues to work hard to take our engineering capabilities one step further and represent our country in the best way possible.
As ITU AUV Team, we are working hard to participate in the Teknofest 2025 Unmanned Underwater Systems category. In this process, our goal is to further develop our engineering skills, create innovative designs and represent our country in the best way in the field of underwater technologies.
In 2024, at the 27th RoboSub competition organized by AUVSI and RoboNation, the ITU AUV Team achieved great success with our vehicle Taluy and our dedicated team. We were awarded first place in the Technical Presentation category, third place in the Technical Documentation category, and as the only team capable of completing two tasks simultaneously, we received the Best Performing Vehicle award. These achievements once again demonstrated our team's engineering competence and innovative approach to autonomous systems.
The RAMI Competition, held for the first time in the city of La Spezia, Italy in 2022, is a competition consisting entirely of autonomous tasks that encompass challenging missions difficult for operators to perform. The competition takes place in open water in La Spezia. With various demanding tasks involving variable depths, currents, and murky water, the competition expects the underwater vehicles to observe a leaking pipe and repair it autonomously.
The competition, which mainly hosts teams from European countries at the graduate level, saw ITU AUV Team's participation in 2023, where they finished 2nd and were awarded the Best Technical Presentation Award.
The Singapore AUV Challenge (SAUVC), first organized in 2013, is a competition aimed at bringing together different disciplines to produce robots capable of performing autonomous tasks in challenging underwater conditions.
The ITU AUV Team competed in 2022 with 42 different AUV teams from 19 countries as the only team representing Turkey, and achieved World Championship by becoming the winner.
The competition, which was first held in 1997 at the TRANSDEC owned by the United States Navy in San Diego, California, is the world's most prestigious autonomous underwater competition. It is organized by the AUVSI association and Robonation.
In 2021, we represented our country and university in the international underwater robotics community as the only team from Turkey participating in RoboSub2021, which was held online due to the COVID outbreak.
Our team received the Most Innovative Design Award, which is one of the honorable mentions given due to the inability to give ranking awards, in the Unmanned Underwater Systems competition at Teknofest 2021. There were three main reasons for being worthy of this award, which were the mechanical system, system design, and algorithm design.
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2024
1st place in the Technical Presentation.
3rd place in the Technical Documentation.
Best in Style Award
2023
Placed second in competition tasks.
Best technical presentation award.
2022
First place among teams around the world.
2021
Finalist.
2021
Most innovative design award.
ITU Maslak Campus, Istanbul/Turkey
ituauvteam@gmail.com
auv@itu.edu.tr
