Underwater remotely operated vehicle for surveillance and marine study

Oceanic exploration has become an emerging field of research due to many resources located in the deep sea. Robots are used in sea exploration as it is very difficult for the human beings to carry out exploration work due to harsh sea environment. Development of underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) is an important area of research. This paper describes a simple ROV prototype based on low cost boards, Raspberry Pi and Arduino UNO. The underwater platform consists of simple control system, camera, gripper and basic equipment. The manoeuvrability consists of forward-reverse motion, submerge under surface motion. The ROV has been tested for the above basic operations.