When a person falls off of a large ship, it takes several minutes to assemble a rescue team, during which the person may be lost forever. To maximize the likelihood of rescue, a GPS-based rescue system was designed that could be automatically deployed. This system includes a small, battery-powered victim locating unit, designed to be installed on lifejackets; a rescue vehicle, which autonomously navigates to the victim using GPS; and a mothership host system, which provides navigation vectors to steer the rescue vehicle to the victim and back to the mothership successfully.

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Creator

• Kindle, Alexander Lawrence
• Stocker, Justin Alan

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042811-121920

Advisor

• Cyganski, David
• Duckworth, R. James

Year

• 2011

Date created

• 2011-04-28

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright