About Hydra
The goal of our project is to develop a swarm robotics system of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that would aid in the search and retrieval missions for flight recorders. Each robot in this system will contain light and acoustic sensors to communicate with one another and determine the location of the missing black box. The robots will demonstrate the ability of decentralized control algorithms to command swarms of AUVs through tests where the swarm randomly searches for a beacon and tests where the swarm signals for the beacon and moves towards it. These prototype tests will be used to present the project's applicability to real-world problems, such as the search and retrieval of a flight recorder.
