ORCAS is an undergraduate research team within the Olin Robotics Lab working on designing, manufacturing, and maintaining a fleet of autonomous submersible platforms for use in a variety of applications. We aim to give all of our platforms autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance, as well as more mission- specific capabilities and hardware dependent on current lab projects. Another goal is to create collaboration ability between submersibles and, possibly, between a submersible and another class of vehicle (land, air, etc) to allow greater customization of robotic tools per mission. Some students are gaining skills through this research to enable them to compete in the RoboSub Competition.
For more information, navigate to the github wiki or contact project leaders Christina Segar at [email protected] or Isaac Vandor at [email protected]