Current underwater inspection vehicles are either extremely slow or high priced despite their plethora of use cases. The Tethered Submersible Surveyor is an underwater, semi-autonomous tethered vehicle designed to glide across the ocean floor for fast close inspection work. The tether provides the craft's primary propulsion as well as communications and power supplied from a boat on the surface. The TSS aims to enable applications such as topology scanning, utility mapping, and other surveying applications.

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Creator

• Ward, Benjamin L.
• Conklin, Jason A.
• Huang, Jeffrey Y.
• Kirschner, Ravi S.

Subject

• Environment
• Infrastructure
• Water
• Project-Based Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 23176
• E-project-050621-154144

Mot-clé

• 3D Printed
• Submersible
• Underwater
• Robot
• Tethered
• ROV

Advisor

• Michalson, William R.
• Bogdanov, Gene

Year

• 2021

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
• 14 - Life Below Water

Date created

• 2021-05-06

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Robotics Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright