Saturday was the day of the semi finals. We had a successful run, we attempted to autonomously navigate through the gates, take a sonar scan, and follow the harbour wall using sonar localisation. Due to a minor software fault, Rinzler decided to stay in place and scan the harbour after navigating through the gates, this provided us with some really useful sonar images we can work with in the future.
The veteran teams demonstrated some impressive control and navigation. The rest of the teams performed admirably proving to be a useful day for all.
Sunday is Finals day. The top five teams competing are Lubeck, Girona, Ensta, Bremen and Heriot-Watt. The rest of the teams are competing in our own sub tournament, where we will be traced by the harbours blue view sonar and we have to impress the judges with some interesting control.
We will update when we have more information, and below are some photos from our semi finals run.
Finally a very happy birthday to Gareth!!!
The sub had a little peak at the sky before diving again.
Birthday boy with his cake!
Southampton-Birmingham during their semi final run.