Design and development of unmanned surface vehicle hull for water quality monitoring system / Abdul Qaiyum Bin Haji Ramli

Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Technology

Project Paper (Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Hons.) (Electrical)) -- Universiti Malaysia Pahang – 2021

In this modern era, there is a lot of industry sector to produce advance technology. Hence, people love to have machine with technology in order to make their work life easier. With no required lot of movement and effortless, no wonder these advance machines have high demand in global market. Because of this factor, lot of country make this sector as one of their main economy to generate main source of income. Despite of this increasing industry factor, many of the factories did not care about their surrounding environment especially when releasing their waste materials in variety way of form whether in solid state or liquid mainly to the river. Most of these waste materials have one common characteristic which are mixing of chemical substances that may give harm to surrounding ecosystem. This harmful chemical wasted could cause death to aquatic life even to human as river also is one the main source to human for their daily uses. Thus, this problem needs to be solved by create or build a device to monitor the quality of the water. The most sufficient device that suitable to monitor this situation is Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV). This USV will have one main task which is to monitor the quality level and give information to people in instant with real time data. Hence, the purpose of this project is to develop and design an USV that will be used in specific area. The USV required a suitable design to be used in the main streams such as in the river environment. The design of the USV should consider several aspects such as in term of overall cost, durability of the boat, and the capability movement. These aspects also can be achieved by doing some research on previous project or in existing market. Other than that, the right tools and material will affect the durability of the USV to overcome variety of whether condition and environment. As for the movement of the boat, it required good mobility components and mechanisms in order to change the direction of the boat. The USV boat also need to be stable to prevent the boat to be flipped upside down.