Underwater ROV

The underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) project has a number of goals. We would eventually like to make the ROV autonomous for underwater mapping and search and rescue, but it must first work well under human control. Therefore, we plan to enter it in the non-autonomous International MarineTech Competition this summer to keep us motivated and serve as a good midpoint that we can gauge our progress by. Consequently, we need to design a platform that will not only fulfil the requirements of the MarineTech competition, but can also be adapted into an autonomous vehicle. Most components should be modular so that they are easy to upgrade and replace.