SAUVC 2025

Competition

Autonomous underwater robotics is an exciting challenge in engineering, which participants get to experience at SAUVC. The competition is great learning ground for participants to experience the challenges of AUV system engineering and develop skills in the related fields of mechanical, electrical and software engineering.
Mentorship

Participants will have access to mentors and support. Teams will be assigned liaisons who will be able to provide mentorship and technical guidance as the teams work on designing and building their AUVs. SAUVC emphasises outreach, learning and skill development and we want to ensure everyone learns and grows through the course of SAUVC.
Guest speakers

The competition will also feature workshops and lectures from world renowned experts in the field of marine robotics and autonomous underwater systems to inspire participants with new ideas and techniques to solve challenges and build an interest in careers related to marine robotics.
Get-together

The competition is also about meeting others like us, who are also interested in underwater robotics and autonomous systems, to get to know one another, to share ideas and make connections.

SAUVC 2025 Winners

Mecatron (SG05)
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
HYDROships (ID04)
Shipbuilding Institute of Polytechnic Surabaya
Surabaya, Indonesia
Team Nirma AUV (IN03)
Institute of Technology, Nirma University
Ahmedabad, India
Marine Belido (ID10)
Universitas Multi Data Palembang
Palembang, Indonesia
Manta Ray (HK03)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong

SAUVC 2025 Qualified Teams

Final Rank	Team ID	Team Name	Institute	Location	Qualifiers Rank
1	SG05	Mecatron	Nanyang Technological University	🇸🇬Singapore	6
2	ID04	HYDROships	Shipbuilding Institute of Polytechnic Surabaya	🇮🇩Surabaya, Indonesia	10
2	IN03	Team Nirma AUV	Institute of Technology, Nirma University	🇮🇳Ahmedabad, India	9
3	ID10	Marine Belido	Universitas Multi Data Palembang	🇮🇩Palembang, Indonesia	11
4	HK04	Searious Business	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	🇭🇰Hong Kong	1
5	ID09	Banyubramanta	Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology	🇮🇩Surabaya, Indonesia	15
5	IN07	AUV Society IIITDM	IIITDM Kancheepuram	🇮🇳Chennai, India	14
5	HK03	Manta Ray	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	🇭🇰Hong Kong	5
5	LK01	Team Yathra	University of Peradeniya	🇱🇰Peradeniya, Sri Lanka	20
6	LK02	Team Diyakawa	University of Moratuwa	🇱🇰Moratuwa, Sri Lanka	18
6	ID05	Barelang Marine Robotics Team	Politeknik Negeri Batam	🇮🇩Batam, Indonesia	17
6	IN11	Nautical Navigators	Christ College of Engineering, Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth, Muthoot Institute of Technology and science, KMEA Engineerig college, Vellore Institute of Technology	🇮🇳Kerala, India	16
6	RU02	Hydronautics	Bauman Moscow State Technical University	🇷🇺Moscow, Russia	13
6	SG03	SUTD_UWU	Singapore University of Technology and Design	🇸🇬Singapore	12
6	IN02	Team Black Pearl	Mahindra University	🇮🇳Hyderabad, India	8
6	ID11	N3.2-AUV	IPB University	🇮🇩Bogor, Indonesia	7
6	ID08	Subnautic Rimau	Universitas Sriwijaya	🇮🇩Palembang, Indonesia	4
6	ID02	Tech SAS	Telkom University	🇮🇩Bandung, Indonesia	3
6	AU01	sUNSWim	University of New South Wales	🇦🇺Sydney, Australia	2
6	IN14	Brahmaputra	Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya Engineering College	🇮🇳Anand, India	19

SAUVC 2025 Short-listed Teams

Team ID	Team Name	Institute	Location
AU01	sUNSWim	University of New South Wales	🇦🇺Sydney, Australia
AZ01	DeepDivers	STEAM Azerbaijan	🇦🇿Baku, Azerbaijan
BD01	IUB BongoMarine	Independent University	🇧🇩Dhaka, Bangladesh
BD02	SUST Onushondhan	Shahjalal University of Science and Technology	🇧🇩Sylhet, Bangladesh
HK01	HKUST AUV	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	🇭🇰Hong Kong
HK02	CityUHK Underwater Robotics - PIONEER	City University of Hong Kong	🇭🇰Hong Kong
HK03	Manta Ray	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	🇭🇰Hong Kong
HK04	Searious Business	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	🇭🇰Hong Kong
ID01	FIToplankton	Telkom University	🇮🇩Bandung, Indonesia
ID02	Tech SAS	Telkom University	🇮🇩Bandung, Indonesia
ID03	MARE VICTOR	Airlangga University	🇮🇩Surabaya, Indonesia
ID04	HYDROships	Shipbuilding Institute of Polytechnic Surabaya	🇮🇩Surabaya, Indonesia
ID05	Barelang Marine Robotics Team	Politeknik Negeri Batam	🇮🇩Batam, Indonesia
ID06	N7-AUV	Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB University)	🇮🇩Bogor, Indonesia
ID07	Skullers Boro HMFT-ITB	Institut Teknologi Bandung	🇮🇩Bandung, Indonesia
ID08	Subnautic Rimau	Universitas Sriwijaya	🇮🇩Palembang, Indonesia
ID09	Banyubramanta	Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology	🇮🇩Surabaya, Indonesia
ID10	Marine Belido	Universitas Multi Data Palembang	🇮🇩Palembang, Indonesia
ID11	N3.2-AUV	IPB University	🇮🇩Bogor, Indonesia
IN01	HydroBots HAVOC	KMEA Engineering College	🇮🇳Kochi, India
IN02	Team Black Pearl	Mahindra University	🇮🇳Hyderabad, India
IN03	Team Nirma AUV	Institute of Technology, Nirma University	🇮🇳Ahmedabad, India
IN04	MTS AUV-ZHCET	Aligarh Muslim University	🇮🇳Aligarh, India
IN05	Team Tiburon	National Institute of Technology, Rourkela	🇮🇳Rourkela, India
IN06	Offset	Plaksha University	🇮🇳Mohali, India
IN07	AUV Society IIITDM	IIITDM Kancheepuram	🇮🇳Chennai, India
IN08	Team Varuna	Sairam Institutions	🇮🇳Chennai, India
IN09	Dreadnoughtrobotics	VIT Chennai, University	🇮🇳Chennai, India
IN10	VAUV	Vellore Institute of Technology	🇮🇳Vellore, India
IN11	Nautical Navigators	Christ College of Engineering, Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth, Muthoot Institute of Technology and science, KMEA Engineerig college, Vellore Institute of Technology	🇮🇳Kerala, India
IN12	blue revolution	Manipal University Jaipur (University), BITS Goa (Institute), CSIR-NIO (Institute)	🇮🇳Jaipur, India
IN13	Team BITAUV	Bannari Amman Institute of Technology	🇮🇳Sathyamangalam, India
IN14	Brahmaputra	Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya Engineering College	🇮🇳Anand, India
IN15	AUV-IITK	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, University	🇮🇳Kanpur, India
LK01	Team Yathra	University of Peradeniya	🇱🇰Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
LK02	Team Diyakawa	University of Moratuwa	🇱🇰Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
MO01	Immortal Bird	Pui Ching Middle School, Macau	🇲🇴Macau
MY01	UTM AUV ELITE (UAE)	University of Technology, Malaysia	🇲🇾Skudai, Malaysia
RU01	geek.py	Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU/IMTP)	🇷🇺Vladivostok, Russia
RU02	Hydronautics	Bauman Moscow State Technical University	🇷🇺Moscow, Russia
SG01	HornetX	National University of Singapore	🇸🇬Singapore
SG02	Team Torpedo	PSB Academy	🇸🇬Singapore
SG03	SUTD_UWU	Singapore University of Technology and Design	🇸🇬Singapore
SG04	Venturer SP	Singapore Polytechnic	🇸🇬Singapore
SG05	Mecatron	Nanyang Technological University	🇸🇬Singapore
TR01	ABYSS	Marmara University	🇹🇷Istanbul, Turkey
TR02	MYS Abdülhamid	Selcuk University	🇹🇷Konya, Turkey
TR03	SOBAT AUV TEAM	Gazi University	🇹🇷Ankara, Turkey
TR04	ALESTA	Adana Science High School	🇹🇷Adana, Turkey
TR05	FangTooth	Çapa Science High School	🇹🇷İstanbul, Türkiye
SA01	AquaDrag	King Abdulaziz University	🇸🇦Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Schedule

Day 0: 13 March 2025 (for selected Singapore school student participants only) (Thursday)

08:30 - 15:00

Team registration & talks & hands on workshop & pool sessions

Fab Lab and Singapore Polytechnic pool

Day 1: 14 March 2025 (Friday)

09:30 - 11:30	Team registration & vehicle setup	Hall
11:30 - 12:30	Welcome address Safety & logistics briefings Competition rules briefing	Hall
12:30 - 17:30	Team Practice and Testing Rounds	Small Pool
17:30 - 18:00	Team pack-up Teams may carry their AUVs back with them at the end of the day's activities or choose to leave them in Hall on their allotted tables	Small Pool / Hall

Day 2: 15 March 2025 (Saturday)

08:00 - 08:45	Team arrival & preparations
09:00 - 17:00	Team Qualification Rounds Each team given a slot based on the ballot system.	Qualification Arena
9:20 - 18:00	Team Practice Rounds Time slots for dummy props post qualification run, as allocated by slot manager	Main Arena / Small Pool
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch Team captains collect lunch boxes for team	Pool Side
17:30 - 18:00	Team pack-up Teams may carry their AUVs back with them at the end of the day's activities or choose to leave them in Hall on their allotted tables	Pool Complex / Hall

Day 3: 16 March 2025 (Sunday)

08:00 - 08:15	Team arrival and preparations	Hall
08:15 - 09:00	Teams to carry their AUVs to the pool area	Pool Complex / Hall
09:00 - 17:30	Competition rounds	Main Arena
12:00 - 13:30	Bento box counters open, team captains collect boxes	Pool Side
17:30 - 18:00	Team pack-up Teams MUST carry their AUVs back with them at the end of the day's activities	Pool Complex / Hall

Day 4: 17 March 2025 - participation by invitation only (Monday)

17:15 - 17:30	Team arrival at gala dinner	Shaw Foundation Alumni House
17:30 - 17:50	Team participation certificates given	Shaw Foundation Alumni House
17:50 - 18:20	Prize announcement and distribution	Shaw Foundation Alumni House
18:20 - 18:40	Talk on Leveraging on sensors and robotics for subsea Singapore - by Daniel Tan, MPA	Shaw Foundation Alumni House
18:40 - 19:00	Talk on Introduction to the Offshore Oil and Gas industry and the careers driving it - by Raj Nagalingam, FET Subsea	Shaw Foundation Alumni House
19:00 - 19:10	Introduction to Schmidt Ocean Institute	Shaw Foundation Alumni House
19:10 - 19:20	Group photo	Shaw Foundation Alumni House
19:20 - 21:00	Gala dinner	Shaw Foundation Alumni House

Travel

Getting to Singapore

Singapore is one of Southeast Asia's largest aviation hubs, so unless you're coming from Peninsular Malaysia or Batam/Bintan in Indonesia, the easiest way to enter Singapore is by air. In addition to Singapore Airlines, Singapore is also home to low-cost carriers Scoot and Jetstar Asia. In addition to the locals, every carrier of any size in Asia offers flights to Singapore, with Air Asia and Firefly operating dense networks from Singapore.
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COVID-19 & Safe Management

The event will be organized based on current safe-management measures and best practices in place at the time of the event. This may affect the number of teams, supporters, visitors that may be allowed to attend the event. Teams traveling for the event will be responsible for ensuring they meet the criteria required to enter Singapore for the event. The safety of participating teams and all involved individuals will be of the highest priority during the event.
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Visa

Many nationalities can enter Singapore without a visa. Refer to the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority for current guidelines. Entry permit duration depends on nationality and entry point. Most people get 14 or 30 days, although EU, Norwegian, Swiss, and US passport holders can get up to 90 days. If you are a registered team and need invitation letters to apply for a Visa to Singapore, please contact your Team Liaison.
Get Around

Getting around Singapore is easy. The public transportation system is extremely easy to use and taxis are reasonably priced. All public transport systems in Singapore use the EZ-link contactless RFID farecard or a Nets Flash Pay card. You can store value on it and use it on trains (MRT) and city buses. The card can be bought at MRT stations can be "topped up" in increments at the farecard vending machines or 7-Eleven stores. Taxis use meters and are reasonably priced and honest. Mobile apps like Gojek and Grab are handy in getting Taxis.
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Accomodation

Accommodation in Singapore is expensive by South-East Asian standards. Backpackers' hostels can be found primarily in Little India, Chinatown, Bugis, Clarke Quay and, the East Coast at about $25-40 for a dorm bed. Some hostels will rent out whole rooms. Alternatively, the entire dorm room (4 or more beds) can be booked. This provides space for equipment. Check out 65hostel, Airbnb, 9flats for more options.
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