Design and Development of Amphibious Surveillance Vehicle

Project Abstract / Summary : DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF AMPHIBIOUS

SURVEILLANCE VEHICLE

B. Dhivakar, S. Dinesh Kumar.

Department of Production Technology, Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai.

Project Mentor: Dr. R. Sivaramakrishnan, Associate Professor, Department of Production Technology, Madras Institute of Technology.



ABSTRACT



There has been significant interest in the development of vehicles capable of amphibious operation. The functioning of autonomous and semiautonomous vehicles is critical in shallow water areas though it has a wide range of application for military and civilian operations. Hence the main difficulty is transition of vehicle between locomotion modes in aquatic and terrestrial areas.

Therefore, the project is focused on designing of a vehicle which can be used on rough terrains, on water surface and also submersible. Here specifically wheels are modified into propeller. Design mainly concentrates on increasing the stability of the vehicle on land and in water. Here the specially designed wheels of the vehicle play a vital role for increasing the stability in both land and water. The optimized configuration of the vehicle is 70cms long and 60cms wide and it contains 18 wheels, 14 wheels on terrain and other 4 wheels for climbing obstacles and 8 wheels are used as propellers for motion in water. This design innovation will simplify autonomous control problem and gives the vehicle revolutionary agility and stability.

This design innovation will simplify autonomous control problem and gives the vehicle revolutionary agility and stability. In the event of crisis situation, a primordial task for the natural calamities and rescue services is to assess whether there are human victims in the incident site. However, in many cases, one needs to enter the danger zone just to make this assignment. To end this, this vehicle has been designed in such a way that it can move on land, surf over the water and under the water for surveillance and rescue operations. This vehicle has wide applications such as reconnaissance, tactical surveillance and victim rescue. In future an arm can be fixed to this vehicle for object handling and grabbing of the victim.

Why did you choose to work on this project topic : Till now the controlling of underwater robots is hard and making autonomous robots is more tougher job.but our model eliminates this issue by offering greater stability and control(stability achieved using Inertial Measurement Units.)

Project Category : Robotics / RC / Automation
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Institute/College Name: Madras Institute of Technology
City: chrompet,chennai.
State: Tamil Nadu
Participating Team From: Final Year