Gators wins Autonomous Underwater Vehicle competition.
http://www.auvsi.org/competitions/water.cfm
I took a couple of classes at MIL, including Machine Learning 1-2 and Robotics. I recall building a TJ robot using http://www.mekatronix.com/detailed/tjpro.htm
I think I did a project using “Reinforced Learning” among others,
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/jair/pub/volume4/kaelbling96a.pdf