Design and development of a low-cost Autonomous Surface Vehicle

Abstract

Marine robotics is a rapidly growing field, with applications of both Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) and Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV) becoming extensive and within reach for many people. Presented is a low-cost design for an ASV, focusing on the ability for the average person with only little mechanical and electrical skills to assemble. The ASV also incorporates a winch into its design, allowing the ASV to perform many tasks that make it stand out from other ASV systems available in the market, A novel system containing both an ASV and an AUV is introduced, where the designed ASV would be able to work with AUV systems to find and collect underwater objects.