Portable Remotely Operated Underwater Smart Vehicle with a Camera and an Arm

Abstract

In this paper we present a remotely operated underwater smart vehicle. We demonstrate that smart features can be added to a dumb analogue remotely operated underwater drone by a small team of engineers on tight budget. Our vehicle maintains compass and depth headings, records video to an onshore terminal. In addition, our vehicle has a remotely operated arm with 3 degrees of freedom. Our ROV won the first prize on AquaRoboTech 2018 competition and has a potential to be upgraded with advanced machine vision algorithms.