Design lake cleaning autonomous surface vessel
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2019-06
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Ahmad Nur Iman Bin Md Isa
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Lakes are valuable as a water source and for outdoor activities like fishing, water transport, recreation, and tourism. In Malaysia, Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) is not widely used. Hence, with new technology the development of project like this can be commercialized and by using renewable energy, the ASV can reduce pollution. ASV is widely used in the field of ocean engineering for its autonomy, where it saves human effort and provide a sustainable solution to the pervasive problem. Human workers and human operated machine is conventional ways to clean the lake but there are risks to the human operator involved. In order to avoid these risks, we propose to develop a lake cleaning ASV that is able to collect trash and debris on the surface of the lake. The proposed ASV can be operated semi-automatic using wireless control mode. In this project, rubbish bin mechanism to trap rubbish and wireless communication to operate the ASV are designed. ASV can collect rubbish effectively during the cleaning process and remove waste to a designed area for collection. At the end of this project, the ASV can be used to collect rubbish effectively on the water surface in autonomous or manual mode.