Now navigation next!

A few updates for last week: The new motor drivers have been successfully stress tested and integrated into the rear tray. Our primitive driver is completed and communicating through our hardware application layer to control the drivers. The merge board, which accepts connections from our two battery pods and separates the supply voltage into our tewo rails (16V and 32V) and can handle hot swapping pods and or a shore power connection, is completed and programmed. The board offers over-current p
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Navigation box assembly and integration

After finalizing and testing all of the motor drivers and thrusters, we’ve begun work on assembling the navigation box and its components. The navigation box includes the DVL, the IMU (mounted directly onto the auto pilot board), and the depth sensor. The first hurtle to tackle was realizing that we didn’t have all of the Fischer connectors which connect the DVL transducer head to its electronics box. We needed four right angle connectors (there are two cables), but we only had two.
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