Remotely Operated Vehicle for Underwater Inspection


EOI: 10.11242/viva-tech.01.05.011

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Sreetish Mundayat, Amaan Saiyed, Raj Shinde, Prof. Bhushan Save, "Remotely Operated Vehicle for Underwater Inspection", VIVA-IJRI Volume 1, Issue 5, Article 11, pp. 1-5, 2022. Published by Computer Engineering Department, VIVA Institute of Technology, Virar, India.

Abstract

The remotely operated underwater vehicle also known as ROVs are like underwater robots designed to explore different depths of water for industrial and research purposes. There has been an increased risk to human life during underwater explorations, different types of observational and work-class ROV are used to reduce such problems. The Mini observational class ROV proposed in this paper is equipped with different sensors like BME280 and MPU6050 to collect temperature, pressure, humidity as well 6-axis digital motion track of the vehicle respectively during its operation, since it is an observation class ROV it also has an onboard camera, all the data from the sensors and the video feed from camera are sent to the ground by Raspberry pi 4 a microcomputer connected to the internet through Ethernet protocol. The motion control of the mini ROV in different directions is initiated by a transmitter and receiver, dc brushless motors are used as thrusters which are attached to a cylindrical PVC pipe. The DC brushless motors provide the required translational, ascent, or descent movements of the vehicle. The design of the mini ROV provides good stability, portability, it is cost-effective and it can be operated in deep-water and for shallow water applications.

Keywords

Brushless Motor, Camera, Internet, PVC pipe, Raspberry Pi 4, Underwater Exploration.

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