Bumblebee Autonomous Systems

04/12/2022

Team Bumblebee has just returned from the 2022 Maritime RobotX Challenge hosted by RoboNation - AUVSI Foundation at the Sydney International Regatta Centre (SIRC) in Sydney, Australia.

In spite of it being the middle of the exam season, the team managed to push the development for the co-deployment of the Bumblebee Autonomous Surface Vessel 3.0 (BBASV 3.0) as well as Bumblebee's first Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Jellyfish 1.0.

After a hard-fought week alongside all the teams from across the globe, Team Bumblebee is proud to announce a 1st runner-up finish in the overall autonomy challenge, best system assessment and 1st place for overall design documentation.

The lessons learnt and experience gained has been insightful and will definitely serve as an impetus to drive fresh development and an overhaul of the full Bumblebee Autonomous Maritime System vehicle suite. Team Bumblebee will come back stronger and better in the 2024 edition of the Maritime RobotX Challenge!

Autonomy Challenge Awards
Champions : Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
1st runner-ups: National University of Singapore
2nd runner-ups: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung
3rd runner-ups: University of Sydney

05/08/2022

Team Bumblebee participated at the 2022 International Robosub competition held at the University of Maryland. After 7 days of intense competition between 39 teams from all over the world, We are proud to announce that we have clinched the following awards:

1st in Autonomy Challenge
1st in Design Documentation

We would like to extend our sincere appreciation to and all of our other sponsors for your continued support!

RoboNation - AUVSI Foundation
University of Maryland
National University of Singapore
DSO National Laboratories

20/08/2021

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the International RoboSub Competition was conducted online. Teams were required to submit their Technical Paper, as well as 2 other videos to showcase their vehicles. Watch Team Bumblebee's Official Video Entry for RoboSub 2021!

20/08/2021

We are proud to announce that Bumblebee Autonomous Systems has clinched the First place for Website Design and Second place for our Technical Report in the International RoboSub 2021 competition!

Check out our award winning website at https://bumblebee.sg/

10/08/2020

Bumblebee Team Video for online RoboSub 2020. We are still working hard!

Bumblebee is a team of undergraduates from the National University of Singapore. This video was made for RoboSub 2020, introducing our members, along with th...

11/04/2020

Ideas for learning about the Oceans during this period!

06/12/2019

Congratulations to the team again! We concluded the RobotX 2019 interactive forum on a very high note. Our software team has spent the last few months working on the Virtual RobotX challenge - a simulated maritime robotics challenge. We are pleased to announce that the team came in fourth place just behind KAIST's NIROM, University of Sydney and Georgia Tech. Our systems were tied for First place in the Autonomous Docking Task with KAIST. The last few days have been exciting and we thoroughly enjoyed the spirit of collaboration that permeated through the conference. We would like to thank the folks at Robonation, ONR, and FSTD for organizing and supporting this fantastic event. We also would like to thank Carlos Aguero and the people at Openrobotics and the Naval Postgraduate School for developing such a robust simulation environment - the VRX platform has been and will be an invaluable tool for helping us test the correctness of our algorithms. Once again we would like to thank our sponsors including our title sponsor, National University of Singapore for supporting us. We would also like to thank all the teams that participated and shared their information at the robotX forum. It has been a truly eye opening experience for us.

04/12/2019

Concluded Day 1 of VRX Interactive Forum with a welcome party, engaging with some of the experts and familiar faces. Really grateful to the organizers to create a supportive and collaborative industry!

04/12/2019

Here for some interactive session @ RobotX Interactive Forum