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Indian National Competition on Students Autonomous underwater Vehicle (SAVe)  The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, joined with IEEE-Oceanic Engineering Society - India chapter and Ocean Society of India conducts a competition for students pursuing engineering degree to visualize and design an autonomous underwater vehicle. The conceptual basis for Student Autonomous underwater Vehicle (SAVe), is to build a highly mobile autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) based on engineering principles. The aim of this competition is to attract young talented students to work on under water technology and new frontiers of ocean technology and kindle their innovative thinking in the unexplored area of ocean environment and observation. NIOT has been continuing this capacity building exercise in the field of Underwater Technology by giving technical support to the selected student teams for developing their AUVs and is sponsoring the winning team of SAVe to participate in the International ROBOTICS competition organized at San Diego USA.

This innovative initiative was launched in 2011 and so far, NIOT received 17473 website hits, 257 registrations were made and 127 teams had submitted their Preliminary Design Reports (PDR) and 60 teams made oral presentation of Conceptual Design Reports (CDR) to improve their presentation and handle question and answers skills; 28 teams participated in final competition and demonstrated their working and engineered AUVs at swimming pool.

Most of the teams used 4-5 thrusters configurations to have 6 DOF controlled by mostly Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) interfaced with control unit (CPU) and powered by commercial LiPo battery packs. Till now, 3 teams have participated in International competition held at AUVSI foundation San Diego, USA and totally 8 prototypes of AUVs were developed by engineering students in India since year 2011.

Students have come up with a brilliant ideas of naming their vehicles for the competition such as AUV Amogh, Sedna, Poseidon, Tiburon, Jal Netra, Varun, Samudra, Zyra, Leviathan, Delfino, Hydra. The competition received overwhelming response from different institutions in which IEEE- OES has come forward to extend financial support. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) also has shown interest to provide support for the competition to improve the awareness as well as encourage Students in the field of underwater technologies.

The success of this competition is based, in part, on the fact that India has eight AUVs having different configurations from the following institutions:

1) Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 2) Indian Institute of Technology Madras 3) Saveetha Engineering college Chennai 4) SRM university Chennai 5) Panimalar Institute of Technology,Chennai 6) Indian Maritime University Vishakhapatnam 7) Delhi Technological University,Delhi 8) Ambedkar Institute of Advanced Communication Technologies and Research.Delhi

This is a major contribution by students in the field of Underwater Technology