Odyssea: amphibious and modular ROV for maritime hull cleaning

Project Motivation

The maritime industry faces a century-old problem with marine fouling which causes ships to slow down by causing drag on the ship hull. This causes ships to burn more fuel (and money) and emit even more greenhouse gases.

Design Solution

Our technology, Odyssea, uses a dual propulsion technique to control the amount of fluid passing through to navigate better along the sides and the bottom of a ship hull to clean marine fouling.

Our beachhead market is Singapore's ship owners and operators, who have to borne the cost of additional fuel wastages.

Odyssea: Amphibious and modular ROV for maritime hull cleaning
Prototype of Odyssea

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Prototype of Odyssea with remote control

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Awards & Achievements

  • Smart Port Challenge 2019 Finalist
  • NUS Innovation & Enterprise Grant
  • Signed letter of intents with two industry partners

Project Team

Students:

  • Matthew Woo Shung Wah (Mechanical Engineering, Class of 2020)
  • Michelle Felicia (Civil Engineering, Class of 2020)
  • Shen Chenhui (Electrical Engineering, Class of 2020)

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