Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India UNDERWATER SEARCH AND SURVEILLANCE VEHICLE

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1 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India NDERWATER EARCH AND REILLANCE EHICLE

2 OERIEW We aim to build economically feasible, user-friendly robot in the realm of semi-autonomous underwater robotics which can be utilized for different industrial, military, monitoring and scientific purposes. MIION Our mission is to provide technology for problems our country has been facing for long. We want to build technology in India for Indian society. We are aimed to develop an indigenous nderwater ehicle which can be mass produced and finds utility in a wide range of underwater tasks like searching water bodies (law enforcement agencies), dam and canal surveys, topological analysis, cleaning and quality monitoring of water bodies (small lakes, ponds, swimming pools) sewage and waste managements and solving various environmental issues which are currently accomplished in highly uneconomical and human resource intensive way.

3 APPLICATION Our primary targets include law enforcement agencies, water body topology survey teams and hydroelectric power projects. Other secondary targets like cleaning swimming pools can be achieved by attaching small modules on the basic structure. A careful observation will lead to the fact that technological solutions capable of operating in river systems are hugely missing in our country. tate Police personnel have shown great interest in such product that can supplement their divers in underwater searches in rivers like the Hooghly. This can be used very easily in searching for structural faults in dams and canals or searching in a pond where it might not be always economically feasible to use a ONAR. The product is a cost-effective and portable carrier for heavy technologies like ONAR. This will be a health-hazard-free technological remedy for replacing or reducing dependence of human divers. ENIRONMENTAL BENEFIT The underwater vehicle can be used for various purposes that will benefit the environment. The designing approach is highly modular such that many varieties of additional sensors and equipments can be mounted with this vehicle. It can be used for cleaning water bodies, for monitoring water quality at inaccessible locations, for surveying river beds etc. Tracking and monitoring of aquatic bio-diversity can be effectively done. Water contamination with toxins can be locally monitored to avoid mass deaths of aquatic life.

4 CRRENT TAT An initial prototype has been designed, fabricated and tested for still water up to depths of six meters. ix waterproof motor-propeller assembly are used instead of thrusters for the prototype and stability is achieved with the help of IM (Inertial Measurement nit).the vehicle is controlled with the help of Arduino microcontroller and wirelessly driven with the help of gaming joystick module which assures user friendly control of the vehicle.

5 TECHNOLOGICAL PPORT REQIRED We require technological support in our current research, which includes the following: Wireless transmission of information from a body deep inside water to a platform outside water. se of latest manufacturing and fabrication technologies Achieving agile movements under large depths. urviving heavy currents on and near surface. Creating a robust control system to ensure vehicle responds as desired. THE TEAM The team comprises of eight students along with a faculty mentor. The details of the team members are as follows: r. No Name Year Field of Work 1 Dhrupal R hah 4 th Control ystem and Design 2 Abhishek harma 4 th Mechanical Design, Team Management 3 Hardik oni 3 rd Power ystems, Algorithms 4 Aditya Pande 2 nd Mechanical Design 5 Akshat Agarwal 2 nd Power ystems, Resource Management 6 Amartya anyal 2 nd Algorithms and Control ystems. 7 Pankaj erma 2 nd Mechanical Design and CFD 8 Yashwanth Kumar 2 nd Algorithms and Coding Faculty Mentor: Prof. Bhaskar Dasgupta Head, Centre for Mechatronics, IIT Kanpur, India.