This Monitoring Probe (also known as the Micro-ROV) is a tool designed for the 2019 Purdue IEEE ROV Team for the 2019 MATE International Competition. As a member of the tools team, I designed this tool to jettison from the main ROV, traverse down a 6″ diameter corrugated tube, and investigate a dam’s structural support at the end of the tube. The final product is a 7″ long, fully-enclosed PET-G shell, and is powered via a Blue Robotics T200 Thruster.
As a disclaimer, I did not design the camera or the camera enclosure, that was done by another member of our team who specialized in the robot’s cameras.