On Saturday, April 27, area residents will have the opportunity to see how the best
and brightest students from six Indiana colleges and universities have met the challenge
of developing unmanned vessels that could assist in future U.S. Navy missions.
The first Artificial Intelligence Maritime Maneuver Indiana Collegiate Challenge (AIMM
ICC) will feature teams of students from Trine University, Purdue Fort Wayne, Purdue
University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, the university of Notre Dame and
Indiana University.
Each team has built a low-cost, low-profile vessel (LPVs) guided by artificial intelligence
(AI).
The challenge will begin at 10 a.m. on Lake James near the Potawatomi Inn at Pokagon
State Park and is expected to conclude about 5 p.m. Each LPV will seek to complete
the most objectives in the least amount of time.
The event is open to the public.
AIMM ICC is the result of a collaboration between Trine University and Naval Surface
Warfare Center Crane Division, funded by the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval
Research under ONR award number: N00014-23-1-2661 supported by efforts led by U.S.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-3rd).
The goal of the challenge is to provide a low-cost, easy-to-build, LPV that can be
made fully autonomous for a variety of mission sets, including intercepting illegal
drugs.
For more information, visit trine.edu/innovation-one/aimm