Team Inspiration’s RoboBoat team consists of 4 core team members and 10 supporting members, with a team range from local high schoolers, Mesa College Impactship program, and SDSU. 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, Crusader, instead of building a new ASV, despite the considerable technical difficulties encountered during the 2025 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 five missions, using the design from the 2025 Roboboat competition, a custom water gun, and a racquetball launcher to complete the Rescue Deliveries task. We additionally completely overhauled our software architecture, combining the modularity and perception of our RoboSub 2023-2025 architecture with the localization capabilities developed for our RobotX 2024-2025 system, using a rudimentary simultaneous mapping and localization (SLAM) system for the first time.