Autonomous Under Water Base Profiling System

In today's technically advanced world autonomous systems are gaining rapid popularity. The goal of this project was to develop a system that could demonstrate this autonomy, as well as serve as a platform for future research work in the field of autonomous surface vehicles. The system presented is a powerful and relatively inexpensive Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV). It brings about a combination of sensors integrated in such a way so as to provide simultaneous autonomous navigation, data acquisition and data transmission to base station through a wireless module. There is also a software interface developed to provide an interactive environment between the user and the system enabling the user to plan the path of the boat, upload the mission-plan into the system and to display real time data obtained from the sensors, speed of the boat and the battery health of the system.

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The authors, Yasir Tahir, Tashfeen Malik, Muhammad Sikandar and Shahab Ahmed are all graduates from GIKI (Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute) which is the top ranked university in the country, conducted this research project as their Final Year Project and are all currently employed in research and development work in various industrial projects.