Mechanical and Electronic Systems
- ● Ship design
This
year, we use multihull trimaran hull design for our Roboboat, which is
different from last year. We hope our Roboboat like a real ship such as
military naval ship, so we use Rhino software to design the ship’s
hull. After discussion, a multihull trimaran hull was adopted. Luckily,
the Horizon which is a yacht company can help us build ship. We first
went to the Horizon Company to make PVC board bond together, then
imported Rhino drawing into CNC machine for processing. Finally we
worked on this unmodified ship with grinding, cutting, and painting.
By the sub-hull
on both sides to share the main hull buoyancy makes ship design can be
more slender to reduce resistance while sailing, thereby increasing the
performance of high-speed driving. Multihull trimaran hull design is
also more stable than single straight boat. And propulsion device can
be placed on both sides of the hull to increase the distance of
sub-hull. At a low speed, the propulsion device can be a way to shift
differential, which will help ship turn around in tight areas.
Fig(1) Using Rhino software to design ship hull
Fig(2) Bonding PVC board together in the Horizon Company
