MIT Arcturus Autonomous Robotics Team

I was part of the MIT Arcturus Autonomous Robotics Team from fall 2022 to spring 2025. MIT Arcturus primarily competes in the RoboBoat Autonomous Surface Vehicle Competition, although we also competed in the 2023 Njord Autonomous Ship Challenge.

Here is our 2025 competition boat, Fish 'N Ships :)

We also tested our algorithms in the Virtual RobotX (VRX) Gazebo simulation environment. The video below shows one of our implementations of the "Follow the Path" task using the A* path planner.

More details can be found in the MIT Arcturus website and our 2025 RoboBoat Technical Design Report:

The ROS 2 autonomy stack source code can be found on GitHub.