Abstract:
This thesis deals with the four new designs of an autonomous surface marine vehicle
(ASV) that inspired by Liquid Robotic Wave Glider. The wave glider is an autonomous
marine vehicle that is unique in its ability to conserve ocean wave energy as the platform
for energy source. This unmanned vehicle are used as a data collection craft for
researcher to collect oceanographic data such as the salinity of water, the chemical
biological properties in the water, the wave height and wave direction in certain region
and etc. This thesis provides an overview of the Wave Glider vehicles and the process of
creating new hybrid designs featuring the environmental-friendly energy source. This will
be new generation designs of environmental-friendly ASV after the Wave Glider. The
four prototypes are modeled using Sketch Up 8 and SolidWorks™. For further analysis of
the models, simulations were done using ANSYS™. The analyses that were done were on
displacement, resistance and stability.
