I'm currently a student at Stockbridge High School, in Michigan. Our mission objective is to travel to the Republic of Palau to search of planes downed in the Battle of Peleliu during WWII.
In the past years my team took our old rov "Dingnar."
This year we undertook designing a new rov for our mission.
We initial decided to use the OpenROV as the control system in the beginning of the year, but for whatever reason we could not get it to work reliably enough for our purposes. I was going to program a different system using mbed, but since we decided not to use the OpenROV in our main rov so close to our departure date (end of March) we decided to fall back on using vex like our team used in year's past. To transmit the video to the surface we are using a raspberry pi connected to a powerline ethernet box.
Specs:
Vex pic microcontroller
Max Depth: around 300 feet (Max our thruster say they are good for. Electronics housing max depth is 400)
Main frame is made from aluminum
Multiple HD cameras
24 volt Power System
Vex Controller
4 Thrusters
High Powered LEDs
Please feel free to ask any question.
