Development of Marine Robot to Collect Eggs of Coral Using Drone Flight Controller

Abstract

Coral plays an important role in the marine ecosystem. They provide spawning sites and living spaces for fish, and control the concentration of the oxygen and carbon dioxide. However nowadays the percentage of living coral is getting less than the past, due to human-related activities. There are several researches on conservation, restoration, displacement, etc., of coral leaf. In order to conduct these researches appropriately, coral eggs are essential. However, it needs a lot of time and cost to obtain coral eggs, and there is a lot of burden on researchers. To solve this problem, we propose an un-manned full automatic air boat robot using a drone flight controller (FC) to collect coral eggs from the sea. This paper describes the prototype implementation of our air boat.