X4-ROV: the open source underwater vehicle

• Main Authors: Zainah, Md. Zain, Khairil Ashraff, Ab Rahim
• Format: Book Section
• Language: English; English
• Published: Springer Singapore 2018
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/21417/1/X4-ROV-%20The%20open%20source%20underwater%20vehicle.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/21417/7/book26.1%20X4-ROV%20The%20open%20source%20underwater%20vehicle.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/21417/; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-981-10-8788-2_29
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Pahang

The biggest bottleneck of currently available Remotely Operated Ve-hicles (ROVs) is the cost of the systems. Therefore, to reduce operational costs and system complexity, the development of micro or handheld inspection ROVs has been increasing lately. An open-source underwater vehicle startup has con-tributed to the community by producing cheap ROVs, encouraging users to de-velop their own underwater vehicle. In this project, a low-cost ROV prototype, called X4-ROV using open-source OpenROV computer hardware and software is developed. This new design includes hardware, firmware, software and con-trol architectures.