Team SONIA, Ecole de Technologie Superieure 1
SONIA 2006: A Leap Forward
Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux, Martin Morissette, Team SONIA
Abstract
SONIA 2006 is an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) built by students from École de
Technologie Supérieure (ETS) to compete at the AUVSI & ONR’s 9th International Autonomous
Underwater Vehicle Competition. The vehicle is capable of agile underwater maneuvers and can
accomplish a variety of mission objectives. Tasks such as exploration, inspection, marking and
mapping are performed autonomously with the aid of our vast array of instruments. The electrical
and mechanical systems have been completely renewed to render the vehicle scalable. A
navigation unit, dual cameras, a hydrophone system and four channels of active sonar provide
total awareness to push us ahead. With a dry weight of 20kg and compact design, a single
operator can deploy the submarine. SONIA 2006 can dive down to 10 meters and keep running
for up to 120 minutes using NiMH accumulators. Additionally, our powerful and flexible software
architecture allows rapid adaptation to different scenarios and insures precise execution. We feel
that this year, we progressed from “making it” to “making it right”. This is the most robust
SONIA platform ETS has ever built.
Quick Facts
Gross weight: 20 kg Thrusters: 6x SeaBotix SBT150
Dimensions (LWH): 1.01x0.43x0.46 m Cameras: 2x Unibrain Fire-i
Max speed: 1 m/s Sonars: Passive and active
Max depth: 10 m Autonomy: 0.75 to 2.0 hours
Introduction
The SONIA student club of Ecole de
Technologie Superieure is a group of
volunteer students working to develop an
innovative and high-performance
autonomous submarine within the context of
an international e ...