Hardware Setup Guide

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Hardware Setup Information The system diagram of the Autonomous Water Rover is as follows : Figure 1 System Diagram The various components in the above figure are as follows :- ●Power System: The power generation, storage and distribution includes the following main components : ○Battery : LiPo will be used to ensure operation of rover for over an hour on one charging ○Solar Panel : A 50W Solar Panel is used to charge the 12 volt battery and also increase the operation period
○Charge Controller : A 20A 12V waterproof solar panel charge controller will be used ○Voltage regulation : Voltage regulators will be used to always keep the supply voltage for the pumps constant i.e. 12V to obtain similar performance even at different battery levels. Also 5V and 3.3V voltage regulators will be used for obtaining required supply voltage for the Rpi controller board, Navio2, telemetry and all installed sensors on the rover ●Raspberry Pi 3b : It is a single board computer which will be used for complex path planning through ardupilot, hosting the web interface, providing live video streaming and communicating with sensor nodes ●Navio2 : It is an autopilot Hat for Raspberry Pi 3b which simplifies autonomous navigation by bringing multiple sensors on a single board and by seamless integration with Raspberry Pi. It also has analog to digital converters along with pulse generators to produce pulses which can control servo motors. The following sensors will be used by the Autonomous Water Surveillance Rover : ○GNSS Receiver : Tracks GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo and SBAS satellites for accurate positioning ○Dual IMU : Accelerometers, gyroscope and magnetometer readings will be used for orientation and motion sensing ○High resolution barometer : Senses altitude with 10 cm resolution and can be used to relay accurate location information along with GPS ○Communication Ports : UART interface will be used to relay information through telemetry radio ●Ground Control Station : It could be any windows based personal computer having Mission Planner installed ●Local Area Network : A LAN is created to access the website hosted on the raspberry pi. It is not needed for operation in autonomous mode

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