P08456: Lighting System for an Underwater Robot

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Project Overview

This team is responsible for designing and implementing a lighting system for an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV). The lighting system provides sufficient light for objects to be clearly identified by the ROV pilot in a variety of water conditions and depths. A lighting system appropriate for most possible conditions has been developed. LEDs are be used as the illumination source to reduce power requirements and heat generation. The lighting system is also incrementally dim-able and multi-spectrum lighting is available to the operator. Hardware and software has been designed to be as similar as possible to the modular, scalable land-based robots; the thruster units can also be controlled with the same software package. In addition, the team is responsible for the design and construction of enclosures which are suitable not only for the lighting system, but the thrusters designed by the thruster team (P08454); the lighting team has consulted with the thruster team and they have assisted as necessary. Furthermore, the enclosures are also mountable on the 10kg payload robot for land-based testing.

Funding for this project has

been provided by Dresser Rand.

Team Members (Left to right): Jeremy Schiele (ME-Project Manager) Benoit Hennekinne (EE-Electrical & PCB Design), Jonathan Lent (ME-Housing Design), Justin Van Slyke (ME-Mounting Design & Testing), Ryan Seeber (CE-Software Design & Controls)

Administrative Information

Project Name: LED Lighting For an Underwater ROV
Project Number: P08456
Project Family: Sustainable Technologies for the Global Marketplace
Track: Sustainable Products, Systems, and Technologies
Start Term: 2007-1
End Term: 2007-2
Faculty Guide: Dr. Wayne Walter; wwweme@rit.edu
Graduate TA: Erin Gillespie; emg3482@rit.edu
Primary Customer :: Dresser-Rand; Don Wehlage; dwehlage@dresser-rand.com
Secondary Customer: RIT Robotics Platform; Dr. Ed Hensel; echeme@rit.edu
Tertiary Customer :: Hydroacoustics Inc.; Dan Scoville; dscoville@hydroacousticsinc.com