Design And Development Of Underwater Thruster For Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)

Wong, Grace Mee Sing (2019) Design And Development Of Underwater Thruster For Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

In the underwater research, Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) are created to assist human due to the efficiency,safe approach and lower operating cost. AUV was an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle with simply computer-control system operating underwater and thruster is one of the important parts which is for moving mechanism in the water and allow the AUV to submerge. The cost for developing the thruster is expensive and it is no fixed procedure to design the thruster based on the propeller design such as size and number of blades of the propeller. Thus, this project is focused on the design and development of the affordable, easy to fabricate and can produce high thrust underwater thruster. In designing the underwater thruster, SolidWorks software is used to design and undergoes stress and strain test. Hardware that discusses and included propeller,nozzle, type of motor and submersion that achieve a certain performance in terms of speed and thrust. Propeller which design in 30 degrees and with two, three, four and five blades. Nozzle design also follow the Kort design to produce high thrust for the thruster. Type of the motor used are A2212 dc brushless motor, D2830 power series dc brushless motor, M100 andM200 for comparing the thrust and speed for the motor. D2830 has the highest speed when compare to others type of motor which means that D2830 have higher speed than others. AUV used thruster to move in pitch, raw and yaw direction by using programming code. The analysis for the thruster can be recorded which is speed, thrust, stress and strain. A2212 DC brushless motor has cheapest price and the speed also approximate to the D2830 DC brushless motor.

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