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AUV ZHCET Club Autonomous underwater vehicle is the vehicle which travels underwater without requiring input from an operator/pilot. Autonomous Underwater vehicles (AUVs) have the potential to revolutionize our access to the oceans to address critical problems where the approach of the human is quiet intractable such as underwater search, mapping, climate change assessment, marine habitat monitoring, and shallow water mine countermeasures. They have the potential to become ubiquitous tool for ocean exploration and sampling. All these above tasks can be performed properly only with the proper integration of the mechanical, computer and the electronics systems. The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Club was established in October.2017. However, the seniors of our college had already been working on the design of such vehicles with a vision to bring innovation into the field of Marine Industry and Underwater Exploration. We were however unable to actually bring our designs to life due to various financial factors. Recently however with the formal establishment of the student group as a club, we have gained increased recognition and also got the chance to prove the working of our design at Singapore AUV challenge last year, made possible through funds from the Alumni and university. This set of hardworking and interdisciplinary students has been working on innovative and trending fields in Computer Science, Electronics such as Computer vision, image processing, Underwater Acoustics Signal Processing etc., which provides us exposure to upcoming technologies. The mechanical components, hence the students working on them, are tested for their ability most adversely due to the prospect of high pressure underwater environment. Most of the research that goes on into building these self ‘swimming’ vehicles are done by students with help from university professors. The team has won several accolades for the College and the University, which include:  Qualified PDR & CDR Round of SAVe-NIOT, Chennai competition in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018.  Recognized among the nation’s top 10 innovation club at FINE-2018 at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi  Awarded as the most liked vehicle in Singapore AUV Challenge (SAUVC-2018).  Won the best design technical paper presentation in 2nd USCEI, New Delhi  US Patent entitled as “A low cost autonomous underwater vehicle having 5 degree of freedom and 2 thrusters”  India Patent entitled as “6 pin underwater electrical connector”. In order to test our AUV against the AUV’s of other institutes we participate in national and international competitions. Till now we have participated in SAVe- NIOT and SAUVC, Singapore and are planning to participate in ROBOSUB, San Diego.