NURC National Underwater Robotics Challenge entry from Carl Hayden H.S.

By falconmaster
@ June 22, 2008

• Actuators / output devices: 8- seabotix Thrusters, 4 for vertical, 4 for horizontal
• Control method: Fiber Optic teleoperated
• CPU: IFI Control system
• Operating system: IFI
• Power source: 24 Volts Lipo, regulated to 12Volts
• Programming language: C
• Sensors / input devices: Teperature, depth, video
• Target environment: underwater, pool, lake, ocean

Here is an ROV built for the National Underwater Robotics Challenge. This video clip shows the mission and then shows one of the teams, Carl hayden High School, Falcon Roboitics team's ROV, Amanda going through its mission at 4 x the speed. You can learn more about this competition at www.h2orobots.org

Students at the school spen three months designing and building this rov based on the legacy knowledge from the four years prior experience.for pictures of the construction

http://picasaweb.google.com/john.h.842/Amanda

Control system: Innovation FIRST used in FIRS Robotics, Operator Interface, Robot controller

Tether: Fiber optic using IFS Transceivers

Speed Controllers: Victor 884

Manipulators: Three Jaw Grabber-Seabotix and Parallel Grabber -Seabotix

Lights: LED cluster from Superbright LEDS

Cameras: LCA 7700 from Light Camera Action

Thrusters: 8-Seabotix SBT 150- four vertical, four horizontal, each produces 6.4lbs of thrust

Bouyancy: Syntactic Foam from Syntech

Frame: Pultruded Fibergalss from Creative Pultrusions

Connectors: Underwater tight connectors from Subconn

Cable joining compound: Scotchcast