Achievements

2026

AqUaVision 2026
1st Place, 2nd Place & More

Team Nira and Samira achieved a major sweep at the national-level competition hosted by the IEEE OES Student Chapter at IIT Madras. Secured four primary honors: 1st Place, 2nd Place, Best Poster Presentation, and Best Video Submission. Won two XSENS sensors valued at ~₹6 Lakhs.

AMUROVc 4.0
Second Runner Up

Team Nira secured the 3rd place position at the AMUROVc 4.0 competition conducted by the MTS-AUV ZHCET Club at Aligarh Muslim University, in partnership with IEEE RAS and MT Society.

2025

SAUVC 2025
5th Place

The team achieved its highest rank to date in this international competition, placing 5th out of 41 teams from 13 different countries.

AqUaVision 2025
2nd Place

The society secured 2nd place in this national-level AUV competition hosted by the IEEE OES Student Chapter at IIT Madras.

IIT Bombay Competition
1st Place

AUV Marco demonstrated its capabilities by dominating at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and securing 1st place at the competition.

2024

SAUVC 2024
Qualified for Onsite Round

Team members represented our college in an international level competition at Singapore in SAUVC 2024. Engineered the AUV Marty for this competition.

IEEE OCEANS 2024
Paper Presentation

Team members presented their research paper, "Analysis of Underwater Coral Reef Health Using Neural Networks," at the prestigious conference in Singapore.

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2023

MATE ROV World Championship
3rd Place (Worldwide)

Team Nira, as the sole representative from India, achieved a podium finish by securing 3rd place globally in the Ocean Exploration Video Challenge component of the championship held in Longmont, Colorado, USA.

2022

SAUVC 2022
Top 30

Team Shaurya competed with their vehicle "NEMO" (AUV V3.0), securing a spot among the top 30 teams globally.

MATE ROV 2022
Global Participation

The team represented India at the global MATE ROV competition with their vehicle "Cholan," focusing on sustainable development goals.

AUV Symposium, Singapore
Paper Presentation

Following the competition, Team Shaurya's research paper was accepted into the IEEE Journal of Ocean Engineering (a Q1 journal) and presented at the symposium.

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Research Publication
Bio-Inspired ROV

Team members published a paper titled "Design and Performance Analysis of Bio-Inspired Remotely Operated Robot," based on their work for the MATE ROV challenge.

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2021

Global OCEANS 2021
Research Paper Publication

Team members Mayank Navneet Mehta, Subash Mylraj, and Vishva Nilesh Bhate published a paper titled "Development of AUV for SAUVC During COVID-19," detailing their design and testing of control and vision algorithms.

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2020

SAUVC 2020
Participation

The society returned to the competition with their improved AUV V2.0, demonstrating enhanced autonomous capabilities.

2018 - 2019

SAUVC 2019
17th Place

The team successfully participated in their first international competition with their debut vehicle, AUV V1.0. The challenge involved complex tasks in navigation, visual identification, and robotic manipulation.

Foundation

The AUV Society IIITDM Kancheepuram
was founded in 2018.