Autonomous vehicles are becoming more and more prevalent in military, private industry and residential applications. Unfortunately, research currently being done in the area of autonomous underwater craft is often hindered by expense. It was desired to build a craft at WPI which could serve as an inexpensive test-bed for future research and implementation of control algorithms, etc. The vehicle's construction required the design and manufacture of a number of components including water-jet stabilization thrusters, propeller driven main thrusters, a complete multi-hub electronic sensor and drive control system and individual sensors such as a tri-axial sonar unit as well as a capacitance based water-leak sensor. A Lexan heat forming process was also developed for hull construction.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• French, Maxwell E.
• David, Radu Alin
• Habin, Brandon Michael
• Kejriwal, Akhil

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042809-153324

Advisor

• Michalson, William R.
• Hussein, Islam

Year

• 2009

Date created

• 2009-04-28

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering
• Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright