So my final year project was to build a sensor sub-system
for an ROV. An ROV is a remotely
operated vehicle so it's essentially a
mini submarine I built a module that has all the different sensors on it
temperature sensor, pressure sensors, PH sensor
together with a Raspberry Pi and my
laptop I can then use that to go
to the sea or anywhere there's a body
of water to collect data, at different depths
So my final year project is investigating platooning
trains. A platoon is a group of vehicles
usually currently road vehicles that follow
each other very closely because they are
communicate with each other
currently it is being implemented with
lorries on roads so they can get more
trucks going along certain lanes but I thought
that could really really help the
railway industry with their capacity
problems.
I was working with a team of four people and our aim was
each of us to build an item or module that would be
attached to a remotely operated
vehicle my aspects of that project was to
do with user interface
so essentially
the controller and the monitor that
would display the data.
I chose this
particular project after chatting with
my project supervisor about my interests
where I wanted to go. My project supervisor was very
supportive he knew what I had an
interest in railways and I liked building
stuff as well another key motivator so
we thought this could be a really good
package of work it'd be really
interesting and it's something that is
really quite futuristic so certainly the
industry through all the industry
mags that I've read they're starting to talk
about this kind of thing so it was
something that is really new and that
kind of exciting really changed
certainly the railway industry if it was to be implemented
A lot of my programming was based off a language
that we actually learnt in first year and also a lot of
electronical areas was again stuff
we'd learnt in first year so we'd learnt
about the communication whereby
the data could be transferred from one
place to another
almost instantly and you'd have to be able to learn how to
deal with that. My graphical user interface was also
based off an art module that I'd done being able to kind
of think about what the user wants to see
how is the data going to be displayed such that the user can actually understand it
like almost immediately
Apart from the obvious
technical skills that I picked up
throughout the duration of course I found that
working through WorkLink on campus
has really helped me to learn to organise my time I
efficiently so I find that that's helped
me to organise myself for the project just
knowing how to implement all those different things
