A team of 28 students from various study programs across faculties at UI designed a ship called the Makara Pumpkin. The ship made it into the 15 fastest teams that were able to pass the mission at the 2022 Singapore Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge (SAUVC). The Singapore Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge 2022 is a competition for underwater robot ships that are contested by carrying out various missions, ranging from navigation, visual identification, localization, and manipulation.
“Makara Pumpkin was designed for the Singapore AUV Challenge race by the AMV UI team and made it into the 15 fastest teams in the qualification test with a record time of 16.9s. The AUV design is the work of the AMV UI team with the help of alumni, mentors, and also AMV supervisor, M Arif Budiyanto (Lecturer in Marine Engineering), as well as sponsors, such as Petrosea, Adaro Logistics, Telkomsel, Metropolitan Kentjana, and Jasa Marga,” said Adli Aulia Fattah Harahap, Makara Pumpkin team leader.
The robot used by the AMV UI team is a type of autonomous underwater vehicle robot named Makara Pumpkin. This name was inspired by the shape of the Makara Pumpkin aluminum body, which is shaped like a pumpkin. Makara Pumpkin can move autonomously or autonomously thanks to the help of the integration of several components. The first component is the depth sensor which functions so that the robot can know the depth of the pond or the terrain. After doing Computer vision sensors or Razer Kiyo X-type cameras are used as image input for AUV with high resolution and frame rate so that AUV can perform image processing.
The data captured by the camera is then processed using a mini-computer, Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX, with a fast processing time. The use of this mini-computer allows the Makara Pumpkin AUV to perform tasks such as image processing, object recognition, and data aggregation in parallel. The processed data is then driven by a T200-type thruster called 6 thrusters which allows the Makara Pumpkin AUV to move freely. These components are housed in a watertight enclosure made of acrylic which was designed by members of the Autonomous Marine Vehicle Indonesia team. The Makara Pumpkin Enclosure is specifically designed to accommodate the electrical components in our AUV.
The AMV UI team consists of Adli Aulia Fattah Harahap (Electrical Engineering ’19), Christofer (Shipping Engineering ’19), Ester Vinia (Biomedical Engineering ’19), Evans Hebert (Computer Engineering ’19), Fauzan Valdera (Electrical Engineering ’19), Reynard Henderson (Electrical Engineering ’19), Muhammad Akbar Attalah (Electrical Engineering ’19), Vincent Brendli (Shipping Engineering ’19), Felix Yaman Kusuma (Electrical Engineering ’20), Abu Bakar Aakif Muhammad (Electrical Engineering ’20), Gemilang Bagas Ramadhani (Computer Engineering ’20), Glene Felix (Actuarial Science ’20), Mahardhika Adhi
Prabowo (Electrical Engineering ’20), Glene Felix (Electrical Engineering ’20), Muhammad Gavin Dirgantara (Electrical Engineering ’20), Rizky Rivaldi (Electrical Engineering ’20), Valerie Olive Suryono (Electrical Engineering ’20), Virdian Harun Prayoga ( Computer Science ’20) Althaf Nafi Anwar (Computer Engineering ’21), Muhammad Daffa Nafis Shafwan (Shipping Engineering ’21), Hafizhuddin Rasyid (Electrical Engineering ’21), Bhamakerti Mohammad Aydan (Mechanical Engineering ’21), Zaki Ananda (Computer Engineering ’21), Umar Maulana (Electrical Engineering ’21), Steffi Natalie Paliyama (Electrical Engineering ’21), Salman Hadi (Industrial Engineering ’21), Rahmat Bryan Naufal (Computer Science ’21).
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