Robotic Submarine Running Debian Wins International Competition (debian-news.net)

A team of 35 students from Cornell University won the recent Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition with a submarine running Debian. In addition, Debian was used to design the electronics, and various other free software tools were used for image processing and video capture. "The competition takes place in a large acoustic testing pool operated by the US Navy SPAWAR Systems Center. It calls for entries to pass through a gate, follow a path, ram a submerged buoy, fire through a square target with small torpedoes, drop markers into bins containing simulated targets, recover a PVC target and surface through an octagon shape, all without human intervention."

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