Design Ideas

Introduction
As we are designing this underwater robot, we are placing all of our ideas online to keep track of them. Furthermore, this page serves as a collaborative area for our team members to post ideas.  These ideas are only preliminary and are in no way a reflection of our final underwater robot.  This is merely the first step in our design process, brainstorming.


April 10, 2012

                 

April 11, 2012

12V liquid pump 350 gallons/ Hour (sparkfun.com)

Proposed chassis design made of small (3/4"-1") PVC.  Utilizes hydrodynamic design unlike many other underwater ROVs that are square or block like.

 




 This is a small, powerful, and affordable pump that I think can act as the thrusters on the ROV. One of these pumps can be placed on both sides of the ROV. Turning on both pumps at the same time will propel the ROV forward. Turning each pump on individually will turn the ROV. We can also use one of these pumps to fill a ballast tank. The ballast tank will allow the ROV to change depth. 

(Brian Evans)

Bilge pump modification ( instructables.com)

This is an example of a thruster modification that someone made with the same bilge pump. We can do the same modification and improve the maneuverability of the ROV. I would also use a four blade propeller instead of the two blade propeller that is shown in the picture.  (Brian Evans, April 13,2012)














April 13, 2012                                                                                                          

Black and white camera system (Cabela's.com)                                 

This camera system can be mounted to the ROV. We can use this to keep track of our direction in murky water. We can also use this to explore the bottom of the body of water that the ROV is submerged in.

(Brian Evans)
















April 18, 2012

A possible design for the propulsion system using water pumps. The internal structure is likely to be modified to improve the hydrodynamics and buoyancy systems.
(Ben Schanck)




















April 18, 2012

http://www.ceruleanplains.com

Here is a very fundamental design for the chassis support of our Sea Perch system. We definitely intend on not building our own to be as flat and basic as the one pictured to the left but it gives us some elementary idea to jump-start our project.
(Tayo Kuku)