Towable Rov

Projects General Guidance
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Hi all,

I am looking to try and create a towable rov using aduino, with a camera, depth and altitude meters, water temperatures, dive wings to control depth of rov in tow, also i would like to a metal detector to scan the seabed for metals.

I have tried serching the internet for opensource projects, OpenRov have stopped but still have a forum uo and running, but can not find anything else. willing to get a open sauce project on the go if there is enough interest.

Any help and guidance is much appreciated

Kind Regards
Kyle

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Welcome to the forum

What do you envisage the Arduino being used for in your project ?
What sensors do you envisage using (vision, temperature, pressure, other) ?
Will the Arduino be positioned in the ROV, in the controller or both ?

What experience of electronics and programming do you have ?

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I was ppaning on using arduino as a main board, tethered to laptop, i have dabbled in programming and web programming, im assuming the programming will be minimal with out the use of thrusters, would be using a dive wing to control depth of rov as it is gotting towed

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It sounds like the Arduino will be in the ROV, measure depth (maybe using a pressure sensor) and adjust dive wing(s) in order to maintain a set depth. A PID loop would seem to be ideal for that and there an Arduino library that can be used

Would it be good enough for the ROV to have a target depth set before it is put in the water or is it necessary for you to be able to control and/or monitor the depth whilst the ROV is submerged ? What sort of depths, and hence the length of cable between the surface and the ROV, are we talking about here ?

Will the Arduino be controlling anything else, such as other sensors that need to be turned on/off and/or monitored monitored. Will data collected be stored on the ROV or transmitted to the surface in some way ?

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Yes Arduino would be the mother board and relaying all info to a monitor, and some basic controls or to a laptop, to relay pitch adjustments for the dive wings no need to have a set depth, just ability to lift or drop thr rov using dive wings,

Trying to keep it all simple at the moment and progress in future

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OpenRov was a great online project shame it has stopped could of transferd a lot if ideas like the cockpit

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