Floating robot for marine life monitoring

Abstract

This project is to develop a stabilised platform to carry a number of instrumentations and communication equipments. Those on board instruments include camera for marine life monitoring, sonar for seabed profiling, and many environmental impact assessment (EIA) devices for other instrumentation. The platform we developed can provide image and data capturing, and it also linked to base station servers via wireless network. The image and data can be sent to the server via the network. The manoeuvring of the platform’s position and dynamic position stabilisation is controlled by the on board PC-104. The actuation for the platform manoeuvre is controlled by using four motor sets, electronic compass and a real time operation system Linux with Real Time Application Interface (RTAI).