Team Inspiration’s RoboBoat team consists of 4 core team members and 10 supporting members, with a team range from 8th grade to college senior. For the first time in our team’s history, our software team was based on the West Coast of Florida — this, combined with limited manpower, led us to focus on augmenting our existing ASV, Barco Polo, instead of building a new ASV, despite the considerable technical difficulties encountered during the 2024 season. Mitigation of technical difficulties inherited from last year revolved around the electrical system — we worked hard to modify our electrical box, changing out faulty regulators, improving device placement, and increasing the workmanship quality overall.

We planned to begin the process of building a robust system that would have the capabilities to attempt all six missions, designing a custom water gun and racquetball launcher to complete the Rescue Deliveries task. We additionally completely overhauled our software architecture combining the modularity and perception of our RoboSub 2023/24 architecture with the localization capabilities developed for our RobotX 2024 system, using a rudimentary simultaneous mapping and localization (SLAM) system for the first time.