UNDERWATER ROVs
With our team team of four, we designed, constructed, and tested our Rovs. As a team, we all came together to create an original design and prototype for our ROV. An ROV is also known as a remotely opereated vehicle that is connected and controlled by a remote control. As a group we will research other homemade underwater robots and take notes on what worked (or didn't work) and how other ROVs can be used as inspiration for our own.
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This is a slideshow with many photos from our process of building our Underwater ROV that my group and I named MANIAC. If you would like to see more of our work, photos, or our journey through the project, you can click on the link below:
ROV #11's Weebly |
The first idea our group was going to go with was based off of an image that we found on Google. This is was the design we made our straw robot model out of but then we realized that since there was not an accurate design to reference because there was not an accurate description of the dimensions or supply list. We then moved onto YouTube and found a video of an ROV that easily made it's way through the water and was easy to control. We decided that this was the design we wanted to recreate, and it actually had all of the materials we would need listed everything we needed to know in order to build our own ROV (basically a replica). We then made our engineering design blueprints to match the structure of the ROV we were inspired by. The way we constructed our PVC pipe structure for our ROV was by looking at multiple pictures included in the video that showed us different angles of the ROV frame.
What I LearnedOut of all of the skills we learned throughout this project (such as designing, scaled drawings, and cutting PVC pipe) along with concepts (such as pressure, density, fluids, forces, etc), my fvorite skill that I learned was how to solder. This was my favorite part of the process because in middle school I an engineering class, but the teacher was very "protective" of her students so we wouldn't be able to really use the tools without being constantly critiqued because she wanted everything to be done perfectly, which was not the case during this project. Mrs. Quinny of course made sure we were safe, but she gave us the freedom to use the solder on our own and allowed us to make mistakes which then led us to learn how to fix them. I feel like this soldering experience was very beneficial for me because I can apply the skills I learned while using any other tool.
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Project Reflection
From this project, I am most proud of the way that our ROV worked when it was completely finished. Of course successfully finishing a final product makes everyone proud, but I am most proud of our robot because of the obstacles we perservered through the entire project. This is a big accomplishment for our group because we were able to set aside out differences and came together for the one thing that we had in common, which was that we wanted to finish the project with a good grade! There were some times that we would feel like giving up or would complain because not everyone was contributing as much as they could and when things like these happened, we would address them as a group so we could sort it out and move on. In conclusion, I am proud of the way my group was able to work against all odds.