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Designing a rigid sailing catamaran, developing the remote control of its electric motors and creating the telemetry system to manage the boat from the ground are the objectives of the Final Degree Projects (TFG) that four students of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena are carrying out (UPCT) and that will result in a low-cost unmanned boat.
In the project, called VNAS (Autonomous Surface Navigation Vehicle), researchers from the Industrial, Telecommunication and Naval Schools of the UPCT participate, as well as a professor from the Faculty of Computing of the University of Murcia, it is part of the Project-Based Learning methodology and has a financing of 5,000 euros from the UPCT itself for Teaching Innovation initiatives.
The project is part of the agreement between the UPCT and the Real Club de Regatas de Cartagena.
The final goal is the development of a rigid sailing catamaran of six meters in length that can participate in the transatlantic race for autonomous vessels 'The Microtransat Challenge'.
The prototype on which the students are working will be fed in principle by batteries, although the final development will have total autonomy by having solar panels for the generation of electrical energy.
Industrial robotics, control systems, navigation and teleoperation, radars and naval constructions are some of the technological areas covered by this multidisciplinary project that also starts from the accumulation of knowledge and experiences accumulated by the teams of UPCT students in which students design and manufacture competition vehicles or innovative technological devices.
Specifically, the bidirectional and real-time telemetry system that will be developed from the studies carried out by the MotoUPCT team.
The student of the Navales School Virginia García Egea has been in charge of designing the catamaran, while the student of Industrials Daniel Martínez Martínez has been in charge of the control of the boat engines and the students of Telecommunication Alejandro González Redel and Hassan Bahari Rhaetassi they have developed the system of remote control of the boat and reception of the information provided by the sensors with which it will be equipped.
The researcher in Telecommunications José María Molina García-Pardo coordinates the project, which also includes Industrial Engineering professors Antonio Mateo Aroca, Miguel Almonacid, David Herrero Pérez and José Manuel Cano;
Leandro Ruiz Peñalver, from the Naval School, and the UMU professor Humberto Martínez Barberá.
Source: UPCT
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