SubjuGator 9 is the 9th iteration of the SubjuGator Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. It is designed for the RoboSub international robotics competition.

During summer 2025, I served as team lead for the SubjuGator team, leading the development and testing of the vehicle in preparation for RoboSub 2025.

My primary technical contributions were to the mechanical design of multiple pressure vessels and sensor mounts for the vehicle. Additionally, I contributed to software systems, primarily the mission planner system. This was written in Python using ROS2 to enable high-level autonomous behaviors, such as multi-stage missions.

At RoboSub 2025, our team had our best performance in 5+ years, placing 12th out of 55 teams internationally.