The CityU Underwater Robotics Team has won the Second Prize in the 10th International Underwater Robot Competition which was held in Hefei, China. The team, comprising three CE/CDE students namely Chan Peter, Cheng Yuk Shing and Tang Ka Chung and students from Department of Physics and Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, is supervised by Dr Ray Cheung (Associate Professor, EE) and Dr Yajing Shen (Assistant Professor, MBE).
There were over 100 teams from Asia, including teams from Peking University, National Taiwan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, joined the competition. Participating teams had to create a control algorithm instructing the robotic fish to complete different tasks such as scoring the most balls in a net in 10 minutes or picking up floating garbage from the lake.
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