ECOBOT the swarm USV Units

Our main goal was a functional, practical, smooth, and adjustable design. We have three design styles based on the main task for the mission. Those three designs are Loose case design, Swat call design, and Microplastic design. All those designs have common capabilities to monitor, detect, and quantify, and finally collect plastic marine debris.

Ecobot strategy isn’t only to monitor, detect, and quantify but also to collect this debris to make full use of the real-time data. Avoiding data manipulation by weather fluctuation and water flow.

Its cost-efficient design using composite material specifically fiberglass and water-resistant coating to avoid tear and wear.

Using Razer Clearbot design as a basic concept helped us to put more effort and to focus more on the Ai model and our solution strategies.

Loose case design:

Ordinary mission case, starting from mission planning on a user-friendly interface ending with a detailed report for the whole region clarifying the areas of concentrated debris and visualize it to the user.

Using two JOHNSON pump 1000 GPH motors as our propulsion systems controlling them with switch drive high-power MOSFET trigger module and energizing them with lithium polymer battery (11.1 V, 5200 mAH- 35C).

Sailing with help of one GPS module, one IMU 9 DOF, six waterproof ultra-sonic sensors two on the front and four on right and left along sides, two raspberry pi professional infrared cameras one on the front top of the bot, and the second is underwater to detect underwater debris and measure the depth of each.

For safety, we use a water temperature sensor to make sure that our robot is working in a suitable environment and working properly.

Our processor is a Raspberry Pi cluster computer consists of Four Raspberry Pi 4B – 2GB.

Swat call design:

In a disaster condition, the loose case design wouldn’t be suitable. So, in a swarm shape, we made a different strategy for this case using a scaled custom-made bot to collect the huge amount of disaster debris properly and time efficiently.

Microplastic design:

The adjustable bot design helps us with changing the collecting tool to a Selection curve of the 0.333 mm mesh net, often used as a standard mesh size for microplastic net sampling.

This step comes as a final step after we finish collecting all debris types and got rid of them.