Underwater Drone Design Competition
Meet our team,
Motivation
As an engineering advisor, I managed a team of high school students that attended TeknoFest Underwater Drone Design Competition. The premise of the competition was to design an underwater drone from scratch that could compete to achieve certain tasks the best. After going through three stages of proposal reports, our team made it to the finals to compete in the TeknoFest!
Our team decided to design all of the components of the drone, including propellers and its hub, structural components like chassis and electronics hub, and a unique configuration of motors for best possible control. Using Solidworks, we worked on stress testing the chassis components, fluid analysis on propellers for optimal design.
Here is our drone before the competition!
The purpose of the competition was to promote engineering knowhow to be generated in Turkey, by Turkish students. For this reason, teams were asked to use parts manufactured in Turkey or designed by the team itself. In this spirit, besides the electronics, our team designed and built all the components from scratch. This allowed the team and I to go through an engineering design process that was comprehensive to a degree that none of us experienced before.
Our client was Nimish Pujara, professor in University of Wisconsin-Madison that researches coastal environment changes, fluid interactions, turbilance and more! A few years before our project, he devised a unique sensor that could directly measure forces acting on a particle, by utilizing an IMU sensor and water tight spherical encasing.
Revise design for simplicity and organization of components
Revise design for simplicity and organization of components
Revise design for simplicity and organization of components
Modeling work
Our client was Nimish Pujara, professor in University of Wisconsin-Madison that researches coastal environment changes, fluid interactions, turbilance and more! A few years before our project, he devised a unique sensor that could directly measure forces acting on a particle, by utilizing an IMU sensor and water tight spherical encasing.