Design and Fabrication of River Cleaning Robot

Abstract

Environmental pollution is one of the most severe global threats that require suitable solutions to control air, soil and water pollution. Thus, the implementation of proper and innovative measures is a requisite for controlling pollution. More than two third of earth's crust is covered with water out of which less than 2.5 percent is available for human consumption. This fact makes it serious to check the cases of water pollution. Many of the initiatives are taken to control pollution such as manual and machine-based cleaning which needs human supervision all the time. The need of manual labour for removing waste can hazard the person. Therefore, a robot that cleans the waste autonomously from the water can make a significant impact on pollution control. However, the proper designing of such a robot is a challenging task. In this paper, the design and analysis of a river cleaning robot are explained. The mechanism is designed to perform different applications such as collecting the floating waste, underwater inspection, etc. The robot consists of a frame, cylindrical hull, thrusters and wide arms for waste disposal. The determination of hydrodynamic coefficients using ANSYS fluent solver, hydrodynamic modeling, static structural analysis, buckling analysis of hull and development of prototype are also included in this paper.