Underwater Robotics

About the activity

Students will arrive at KGV each day as normal and meet at 8:15am in DT6. Sessions will begin at 8:30am and students will be dismissed at the normal school finish time.

The aim of this week is to design and build underwater robots designed to perform specific tasks. 

The basis of the work carried out will be simulated real life challenges as identified by the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES).   The programme will start with the participants learning simple design basics with each student assembling a fully functional Mini-ROV. Students will keep and take home this ROV.  Participants will then progress on to investigating how to design and build a larger, more task capable underwater robot. Teams of three to four students will design and assemble task specific robots. 

Tasks and challenges will be set up in the school swimming pool for the teams to demonstrate their ability to control their robots.  Typically, this will involve maneuverability, taking environmental measurements and sample collection. Teams will learn the required skills to design and construct robots that can compete in the annual Hong Kong IEEE CT/OES ROV Challenge or any of the other CT/OES challenges happening in SEA.

In addition to being fun and educational, this activity connects participants with professionals from marine industries, and those involved with marine conservation, as well as promoting the development of technical, problem solving, critical thinking, and teamwork skills.

The programme will run at KGV D&T Workshops and the Swimming Pool.