EMBEDDED WIRELESS DATA

ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR UNMANNED

VEHICLE IN UNDERWATER
ENVIRONMENT

PRESENTED BY
REVATHI. D
(12TC0043)

INTRODUCTION

Underwater Robots gather information

which is difficult for human being.

Used by scientific communities to study the

ocean, freshwater & underwater environment

ZigBee is used for wireless network and

monitoring applications.

OBJECTIVES

To design a wireless underwater robot security purpose

for understanding water environment with the help of
electronics, motion control and sensor system.
Manual water Sampling labour, limited special and
temporal variations, highly affected by bad weather
conditions, resource, and time intensive.
Water outlining
Tracking
Boundary Monitoring
Mapping

BLOCK DIAGRAM OF ROBOT MODEL

UNDER WATER VEHICLE

Three Types of Underwater Vehicles are

Remote operated vehicle (RUV's)

Unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV's)
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV's)

WORKING PRINCIPLE OF ROBOT

DC MOTOR is used for controlling the

movement of robot with small coil for
rotating purpose.

Robot direction is controlled by ZigBee with

help of microcontroller.

DESIGNING PROCESS REQUIREMENT

CAMERAS
MOTORS
RELAYS
MICROCONTROLLER PIC16F877
RS232
POWER SUPPLY

WIRELESS PINECOM CAMERA

Transmits clear sharp colour live time video to the

receiver unit up to 300 feet apart (Line Of Sight)

MOTOR UNIT

To make the robot mobile, we need motors,

wheels, casters or tracks. The motors are
controlled by relay and driver circuit.
The series combination of resistor and
capacitor is called as Snubber circuit.
When the relay is turn ON and turn OFF
continuously, the back EMF may fault the
circuit. So the back EMF is grounded through
the Snubber circuit.

CIRCUIT FOR MOTOR WITH RELAY

RELAY CIRCUIT

RS232

The voltage level that corresponds to logical

one and logical zero for the data transmission
& control signal lines.

Valid signals are either in the range of+3 to

+15 volts or the range -3 to -15 volts with
respect to either the ground/common pin

MICROCONTROLLER

The Microcontroller used is PIC16F877.

Flash type reprogrammable microcontroller.
Programmed using embedded C language.
Calculates the corresponding time to distance
measurement & it on the computer.
Interfacing is done through serial ports.
RISC based - fabricated in CMOS immune
to noise.

TOOLS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND DATA

AQUISITION

ZigBee is a specification for suite of high level

communication protocols
Used for creating personal area networks.
Based on IEEE 802.15 standard.
Transmits data over long distance by passing
the data through intermediate devices to
reach more distant ones, by creating a mesh
network.

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ZigBee Specification:

Input present at PORTD of transmitter Atmega8 is

transmitted wirelessly to the PORTD of receiver Atmega8

ULTRASONIC SENSORS

Non-Contact distance measurements are about

2 cm to 3 meters
Transmits an ultrasonic burst and provides output
pulse that corresponds to the time required for the
burst echo to return to the sensor.
By measuring the echo pulse width,the distance of
the target can easily be calculated.
By replacing these sensors with sonar, the
underwater monitoring will be possible.

TEMPERATURE SENSOR

Thermistor is used for measuring the

temperature of underwater.

Types of temperature
Positive

Temperature Coefficient.
Negative Temperature Coefficient.

OUTCOMES

Effective
data
environment.

acquisition

for

underwater

Provides subsurface data on a larger scale and higher

frequency than traditional UIN at a cheaper budget
and sustainable to all weather conditions

Gathering ocean, fresh water, unclean water, dirty

water data in real-time will be very cost effective will
be obtained.

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High performance UUV that can provide

continuous efficient water monitoring.

The long endurance enables the UUV to explore

underwater bodies, acquiring data over large
areas.

When at surfaces, it will send collected data to

shore and receives new commands via the
ZigBee wireless technology.

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Data acquisition will help the government,

municipality corporations for monitoring the
cleanliness of rivers, tanks, dams, sewage
blockages.

By replacing RF with sonar, underwater

images in unclear water which could not be
seen by cameras can also be seen clearly.

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