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Rapidly Sinking Submersible

Company: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Major(s):
Primary: ME
Secondary: EE

Non-Disclosure Agreement: NO

Intellectual Property: NO

Design the electronics of a small submersible designed to rapidly fall through the ocean to the sea floor (1,000+ m). This includes the electronic control computer (maybe a raspberry pi), some sensors and possibly actuators. The team will need to contend with limited space and limited power requiring the team to examine different options and make trade-off between functionality and low size, weight, and power (SWaP). Additional stretch tasks could be: 3d print a model to show a final layout and test in a shallow body of water, explore the addition of a spinning flywheel to help with stability, devise and incorporate a retrieval system.