Design and testing of underwater thruster for SHRIMP ROV-ITB

Abstract

Shrimp ROV is the most recent underwater vehicle that has been developed at Center for Unmanned System Studies (CentrUMS)-ITB. This type of vehicle is typically designed for environmental or scientific surveillance mission as well as for Small Observation ROV with military functions. One of them is Minesweeper ROV. The present study consists  the thruster design of ITB SHRIMP-ROV as its main propulsion device. In the thruster design, we used and applied Finite Element Analysis for calculating structural strength and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for identification of fluid characteristic on thruster. All the testing at this stage is performed in the laboratory.