UNDERWATER ROV'S
In our underwater ROV project , we made robots that would be able to move around underwater. The ROV's, or Remotely Operated Vehicles, were built from PVC and hand designed and crafted by each individual group. We built every part of the robots from the frame to soldering the controller. This was our project for Festival Del Sol and it was exhibited there. After working on the project for three months we were proud to show off our hard work done on the robots.
We learned many physics concepts associated with the project. One of the first things we learned about was the design process. We learned about how to brainstorm designs and how this will help with the final product. Then we began doing engineering drawings, or scale drawings to give us an idea of what our robot will look like and how big it will actually be, along with having documentation of our robot. We used these engineering drawings to build our robot from the PVC. My group had a very simple robot so this part was quite easy, but for some groups this took a long time. We also began learning how to calculate buoyancy, pressure, and other things related to what our robots would be doing so we could understand the actual things affecting our robots. This was a lot of hard math, but in the end we could calculate the density, buoyancy, pressure, and anything else acting on our robot.
We learned many physics concepts associated with the project. One of the first things we learned about was the design process. We learned about how to brainstorm designs and how this will help with the final product. Then we began doing engineering drawings, or scale drawings to give us an idea of what our robot will look like and how big it will actually be, along with having documentation of our robot. We used these engineering drawings to build our robot from the PVC. My group had a very simple robot so this part was quite easy, but for some groups this took a long time. We also began learning how to calculate buoyancy, pressure, and other things related to what our robots would be doing so we could understand the actual things affecting our robots. This was a lot of hard math, but in the end we could calculate the density, buoyancy, pressure, and anything else acting on our robot.
Overall, I was immensely proud of our group's accomplishments. We had one of the best performing robots overall being both one of the fastest and strongest. I would not change much about this project, as it was fun, educational, and full of learning. Our group collaborated well together and it was by far my favorite project of the year.
Here is the link to my group's Weebly. It has much more information about the project.
Here is the link to my group's Weebly. It has much more information about the project.