This project is intended to provide a market assessment of the emerging industry of hull cleaning robots to help the United States Coast Guard with their mission of reducing the spread of non-indigenous marine species. We researched the feasibility of these technologies that stakeholders need to be aware of, including the regulations and state of the market. The project resulted in a comprehensive list of every hull cleaner that we were able to identify and their functionality along with design parameters.

• 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

• O'Connor, Brendan Willstan
• King, Evan Fitzgerald
• Curran, Andrew Patrick
• Lowe, Carolyn Marie

Subject

• Industry
• Computing
• Environment

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-121416-161958

Keyword

• Introduced organisms
• Robotics

Advisor

• Hanlan, James P.
• McCauley, Stephen M.

Year

• 2016

Center

• Washington, DC Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• United States Coast Guard (USCG)

Date created

• 2016-12-14

Location

• Washington

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright