Design and development of a Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle

This paper presents design and development of a small unman submarine. It aims to use to explore underwater. The underwater vehicle is designed to work instead of human beings because there is a risk to use human beings to explore in a difficult to reach and hazardous areas. Human explorer performance under water are limited. Thus, a dedicated tool or device such as a Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle (ROV) is required in helping human to perform these research activities. The vehicle equips with powerful underwater probe sensors to collect underwater data, dc brushless motor for controlling direction as well as real time camera monitoring. It transmits video data and perform an automated drive. The data is sent via underwater cable to computers base station on the coast. The tilt control, achieve automated pitch stability and perform underwater observation through a video camera where surge control is by joystick operated control mechanism. The base station can control the direction of the underwater probes in the desired direction easily and more accurately. The tools used in the developing process is processing program for GUI and microcontroller (Arduino) for reading and controlling all sensors data such as accelerometer, gyro meter and motor speed control in order to keep the vehicle stabilizer movement.