The Maritime RobotX Challenge is an international competition amongst academic institutes which has been running since 2014. Every two years, competing schools enter an unmanned surface vessel (USV) to autonomously complete a number of tasks. UQ's RobotX team have been competing since 2022 and are constantly developing new systems to improve on our previous efforts.

In previous competition outings, UQ's vessel has had significant issues in communicating with the shore control centre due to the high RF noise environments created at these RobotX events. In an attempt to overcome these issues, I have created a system which can rotate and precisely direct a high-powered directional antenna towards our USV.