Personal ROV

My entry for the Freescale Xtrinsic contest. A small-sized, personal remotely operated underwater vehicle. Useful for inspections, archaeological and marine research or plain fun. It does not need a tether to the control unit, since signals are transmitted/received by a "floating antenna buoy" connected to the ROV.
It uses Freescale Xtrinsic accelerometers and pressure sensors together with a tilt compensated magnetometer (a digital compass) and MEMS gyroscopes to provide heading and location data (basically, a navigation device that needs no GPS - also known as "dead-reckoning"). Referencing it's location to the location of the control unit (which is GPS enabled) provides the user with a fairly precise georeferenced location of the ROV.

The ROV itself is powered by high capacity Li-Poly batteries, has three brushless motors for motion and two high-intensity LED lights that illuminate the field of view of the pan/tilt mounted HD Camera.

The video was created in only 5 days (could've been better if I knew of the contest earlier...) using Blender for 3D animation and compositing.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Freescale
• Xtrinsic
• Contest
• ROV

[peachmunich]

Hi, this is really a professional looking animation! Do you want to build the ROV in real? Or is it just a concept for the contest? My design is nearly the same and i had problems with the weight distribution. The back cover plate will have to be very thick, because of the massive pressure. So the ROV will get much overweight on the back! I had to solve this with a swimmer at least. Best regards.