Remotely Amphibian Vehicle

Yeoh, Eik Keong (2016) Remotely Amphibian Vehicle. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia . (Submitted)

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Abstract

This project is mainly focusing on the development of the Remotely Amphibian Vehicle (RAV). RAV is considered as a drone or vehicle that can operate autonomously or remotely controlled by a user. The term “amphibian” is referring to a vehicle that is capable of functioning in dual environments, which is in aerial and aquatic. In order to achieve that purpose, the ability of flying and submerging are being implemented into this RAV. This innovation mends to assist and help human in aquatic operation as well as aerial activity. However, this is still a very recent concept with numbers of limitation and challenge. Challenges like transition in medium has limited and affected the performance of the vehicle in terms of flying capability or submerging ability. Available model in the market is either robust in flying, but imperfect in submerging and vice versa. Hence, this project is to design and develop a remote control amphibian vehicle that can fly and submerge in order to overcome the challenge mentioned. The denser material is preferable for body frame fabrication because a body design with low volume and lesser drag is recommended to achieve a better performance in transition medium. To validate and verify the performance of this RAV, a series of simulation and experiment will be carried out. This RAV is tested and verified of able to fly in the air as well as submerge into underwater and capable of hovering like a normal quad-copter up to a height of 200 cm and submerge about 50 cm of depth. The RAV has successfully achieved the aim of travel in both mediums.

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