Below are videos taken from our personal and underwater cameras while performing mission tasks. Unfortunately the video compression seems to mess with the color a little.

New: Nova's Final Run at the AUVSI/ONR AUV competition.

Nova's run on August 2 that won the AUVSI/ONR AUV competiton for Cornell University.

Video taken during the final run for the webcast with commentary. Includes video of Nova completing all tasks from a combination of diver camera and seabotix ROV camera.

Video from the downward camera of the Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team's vehicle Nova during its final run during the AUVSI/ONR AUV competition at TRANSDEC in San Diego, CA. This run was untethered and fully autonomous. During this run, Nova won the competition by completing all tasks perfectly except for marker dropping, where the darts land on just outside of the correct targets. The downward camera view shows Nova autonomously following pipelines, centering on the bins, dropping markers, centering on the briefcase and surfacing in the recovery zone.

Video from the forward camera of the Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle team's vehicle Nova during its final run during the AUVSI/ONR AUV competition at TRANSDEC in San Diego, CA. The forward camera view shows Nova autonomously ramming the buoy, centering and going under the barbed wire, firing torpedoes through the nest, and surfacing in the recovery zone.

Nova in Cayuga Lake

On July 12, Nova was deployed off of the Haendel into Cayuga Lake as part of the Cayuga Lake Floating Classroom Project. Below are videos from the forward and downward cameras of the vehicle as it autonomously completes a 10m by 10m visual macrophyte growth survey on the southwest end of the lake.

Nova Completes Entire Vision Mission Autonomously

With the competition only a couple weeks away, the team has been testing daily at Teagle Pool. Below are three videos of Nova completing the course. The first video shows both the forward and downward views from the vehicle. The second and third videos show the views from the downward and forward cameras, respectively, of a different arrangement of the course.

Triton Runs Mini-Mission

In preparation for the team's 10th Anniversary celebration, Triton runs a mini-mission. The vehicle follows pipelines, hits the buoy, drops markers into bins, and surfaces in the recovery zone.

Buoy Homing

During a pool test in Teagle Pool, Triton rams a bouy, backs up, then goes over it during a fully autonomous mission run.

For a high resolution version (6.8 MB), click here.

Multiple tasks

Here the vehicle follows a pipe until it finds a box with a spade in it. Once it finds the spade it centers itself over the box and slowly lowers itself to an altitude of 1 meter. Once complete the vehicle then surfaces.

The video can be seen on youtube and embedded below. For a higher-resolution version (2.8 MB), click here.

Pipe following videos:

The mission being run starts with a zigzag search until the pipe is found. Once found the vehicle centers itself over the pipe. Once the pipe is centered in frame, the vehicle grabs the heading and follows it. After the second pipe, the vehicle takes off for the safe (which you can't see in thedownward camera).

The video can be seen on youtube and embedded below. For a higher-resolution version (4.5 MB), click here.

Suit Recognition Videos:

Here the vehicle centers over a box with a club in the center of it. Once it is centered the vehicle will lower itself to an altitude of 1 meter from the bottom of the pool.

The video can be seen on youtube and embedded below. For a higher-resolution version (4.7 MB), click here.