Computer aided design and analysis 'wave glider' data collection craft

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.