Abstract
There is a major need for underwater technology for monitoring marine archaeology in a peninsular country like India. In this paper, a compact and economical observation-class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) has been designed and developed for aquatic monitoring and underwater surveys, primarily for archaeological purposes. The ROV is capable of operating at depths of 100ft. It has a USB camera for its vision and can be operated from a surface vehicle whose GPS location is geo-tagged on the video, recorded by the camera. Such an arrangement will help in informing the archaeology department about artifacts that are found in various GPS locations. To eliminate the problem of drag due to heavy tether, a two-wire tether has been implemented using the concept of powerline communication, which serves as the communication link between the ROV and the surface vehicle. The two-wire tether also enables faster video transmission. The control panel of the ROV is a PHP-based graphical user interface (GUI) which is capable of recording and displaying the sensor data. The ROV has been named as ‘ROV CHOLAN’, to commemorate the Chola dynasty (300s BCE – 1279 CE) as the artefacts it may find will belong to that period.
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