Computer aided design and analysis of ocean cleaning robot

Abstract

This project thesis presents the computer aided and analysis of ocean cleaning robot. There are several issues that have a significant impact on the world of which are present oil spill has the potential to harm the ocean, coastal fishing, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds. The purposed of this thesis was the development and virtual testing of five ocean cleaning robots that can operate to absorb oil spills on the ocean's surface involves five different types of tanks. It consisted of five simple concepts and easy to build. In general, these robots had included one or more aqua-robotic mechanisms where capable of collecting pollutants from water bodies while afloat in contaminated spill zones. In addition, this project also focuses on the analysis of data that was conducted virtual analysis using ANSYS of the candidate designs in view of stability, drag coefficient, powering and time to be taken to clean up a contaminated area. Therefore, it can be hypothesized that the robot is capable to perform highly repetitive task with availability of several or no human supervision. With the creation of this robot it is envisaged that the amount of human workers and time involved in the process of cleaning the ocean can be reduced, while at the same time improving the efficiency of the ocean cleanup activities. At the end of the project, each robot being tested to prove that which one had very high effective performance in the process of cleaning the ocean.