Unmanned surface vehicle for underwater trash cleaning
Project Description
This project is related to the Smart Sustainable Campus Project “Sustainable Smart Marine Grid (SSMG) - Solar-powered base stations for continuous underwater surveying and trash cleaning”. Within this project, the investigators propose a system to collect underwater trash at the HKUST seafront area. The proposed system is composed of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) acting as the major travel device of the system. The USV is connected to an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) that is equipped with cameras and a gripper to detect and collect underwater trash. This UROP project will focus on the development of the unmanned surface vehicle.
Supervisor
SCHARFF, Rob Bernardus Nicolaas
Co-Supervisor
YEUNG, Sai Kit
Quota
3
Course type
UROP1000
UROP1100
UROP2100
UROP3100
UROP3200
UROP4100
Applicant's Roles
The applicant’s role is to design, build, and test an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) equipped with PV-panels, surface antenna, and underwater GPS base station.
Applicant's Learning Objectives
- Explain the principles and challenges of photovoltaics, underwater communication, above-water communication, localization, and propulsion for USVs
- Select suitable photovoltaics, communication, localization, and USV propulsion hardware based on a list of design specifications
- Create a working prototype of a PV-powered USV with communication and localization capabilities.
- Select suitable photovoltaics, communication, localization, and USV propulsion hardware based on a list of design specifications
- Create a working prototype of a PV-powered USV with communication and localization capabilities.
Complexity of the project
Moderate