Design Brief:
Design, construct, optimize, and operate the electronics for an Underwater Remote Operated Vehicle for a team of students to complete an oil spill capping and cleanup simulation underwater that demands the device to move in three axes, have modulating motor speeds, and conduct movements in the most efficient way possible.
Specifications:
The specifications for this Underwater ROV in this challenge is to:
1. Have the ROV, and only the ROV, be placed in the testing facility pool after judge inspection of the vehicle for any disqualifying modifications.
2. Replicate the Underwater ROV mission British Petroleum (BP) executed which consists of numerous parts.
3. The first task is to stop the flow of a simulated oil spill.
4. The next task is to cap the well of flowing ‘oil’ released every 10 seconds.
5. Collect any oil that was already released and collected on the surface.
The ROV must have an arm constructed by the Mechanical Engineer, SE, and the Hull must be designed by a Civil Engineer, DE, and the electronics be developed by the Electrical Engineer, myself. We have to incorporate these different personal accomplishments into a single unified coherent Remote Operated Vehicle in Systems Engineering II under the guidance of Mr. Cuttrell and Ms. Green, Technology Instructors.
The Limitations:
My team has some limitations that it has to guide itself upon often throughout the design and construction process of this project. These limitations were set into place to make the competition fair and equal on as many premises as the competition could place on it. This is suppose to remove any external variables that could give a team an advantage another team couldn’t have had. Such limitations include:
1. What items we can and/or cannot use in this competition
2. What types of items will disqualify us from the competition
3. Restriction among the grounds of movement from tethering cable
4. Physical size of the testing facility / pool we are using at the competition
5. The regulations that we have to abide by for fairness between all participants in this year’s competition.