The Autonomous Maritime Robotics Association (AMRA) is a student government organization at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Our student-run organization is dedicated to advancing underwater robotics through research, design, and competition‑ready autonomous vehicles. Every year, we make extensive improvements to our core systems. Over the past year, we have set up on our new wide-body frame, nicknamed Hammerhead. We are leaving the previous iteration, Nautilus, pictured below, behind because we lacked room to grow our sensor suite.

As part of our latest upgrades, we are designing a 30 A high‑current power distribution board to power the compute stack on our competition AUV. Onboard, we run a LattePanda Sigma and a Jetson Orin; these are needed in conjunction with each other to run and process the machine learning and vision models. An AUV is an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. Hammerhead, our flagship AUV, is currently undergoing extensive experimentation using advanced sensors and cutting-edge techniques such as machine vision, machine learning, and SLAM. Meet the Team!!

We participate in 2 competitions every year, the RoboNation Robosub Competition and the MateROV competition. Our newly designed board incorporates configurable bank switching, allowing us to meter each power rail in real time and sequence their activation, thereby preventing sensitive processors and peripherals from causing harm from inrush stress during startup. An on‑board RP2050 microcontroller handles the logic: it collects voltage and current telemetry, drives MOSFETs for each bank, and communicates that status upstream to the main OBC over a lightweight serial link. This serial link is also capable of configuring the state of each bank, granting fully autonomous control or the power draw to the OBCs. Together, these features give us extensive control and monitoring of power delivery, improving fault isolation, and paving the way for more intelligent and autonomous energy management as the mission evolves.

I am currently a rising senior, studying Electrical Engineering. I joined this student organization driven by my passion for problem-solving and my knowledge of programming. After directing the project for a few years, I switched to a technical advisory role. Here, I teach new students concepts important to robotics, such as finite state machines, byte manipulation, and systems programming, as well as electrical concepts such as voltage regulation, BLDC motor control, and battery management. I intend to pursue a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and plan to continue contributing to the field of maritime robotics.

• vicor
• MateROV
• Embry-Riddle
• ERAU
• AMRA
• power distribution
• submarine
• AUV
• robotics