Innovation Project

Engineering Design steps were leveraged through out our Innovation Project:

Identify

We met with many ocean exploration experts such as:

To understand the challenges faced by them.

We documented some of the challenges and created a list of ideas related to those disciplines.

Using the weighted score methodology all of our ideas were evaluated and selected our project:

Individually we drafted our idea on the white board while brainstorming and having fun

We reviewed our designs with robotics professors, such as Dr Chris Roman (URI) / Dr Sean (USF) / Dr Sattar (UM).

Based on their feedback we choose the best design to create a POC.

Underwater Sample Line (USL) 1.1 - for Single Body ROV

Underwater Sample Line (USL):

Underwater Sample Line (USL) is a device that can make repeated trips between the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) and the Research Vessel delivering the collected samples, while ROV continues its exploration.
USL is based on zip-line mechanism, to make the trips.
USL is designed to carry existing sample boxes.

Dual Body System:

Has Towsled ROV (Argus / Atalanta)
- Lights the seafloor below
- Multiple Cameras
- Reduces ships movements for exploration ROV
Exploration ROV (Hercules / Little Hercules)
- Neutrally buoyant
- Carries basic camera and light arrays
- Equipped with manipulator arms for collecting samples.

Underwater Sample Line (USL) 2.0 - for Dual Body ROV

Benefit of USL:

Potentially save $75,000 per expedition, when collecting biospecimens / geology specimens.

Collecting more samples will facilitate research and help us improve on

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