High-Level Project Summary
The Dolphin Team created an artificial intelligence submarine that makes data on plastic waste in the oceans more accessible and valuable to citizen scientists, remote sensing experts, as well as policy makers and regulators. With the help of a mini sub-dolphin financially capable of engaging different classes of scientific research also created and designed by our team, this platform can analyze and quantify the plastic in Earth’s seas. With this system, the international population can monitor the plastic life, geography conditions and studies about the impacts of debris in marine life.
Link to Project "Demo"
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Detailed Project Description
Method
This submarine transmits the collected data to the software in use. This data can be relayed to research centers around the planet. Allowing scientists to better detect plastics using remote sensing data and policy makers to use that information to effect change.
How to collect data
The sub-dolphin will face the plastic with its sensors, the analyzing will take around 10-15 minutes to get a complete construction in online form to send it to the database of the artificial intelligence will be responsible for catalog according to the measurements, depth and other details of the plastic and send this information to different centers of research that can monitor and take care of the plastic analyzed.
Coding languages and their usability
JavaScript and Java for the animation.
HTML for texts.
CSS for stylization.
Tools for sub-dolphin
To create the exterior design, we used the Tinkercad software and ideas we searched about the outside of a submarine.
- aluminum
To create the sub-dolphin model from inside, we used the Ibis Paint and develop with ideas that we searched about hardware:
- dc motor (9)
- Reduction motor (2)
- Arduino mega 2560 (1)
- Arduino Uno r3 (2)
- Rotating helixes (producible_ different size and shapes [7])
- Universal waterproof lnbf(1)
- Micro self-performing antenna (producible by aluminum and iron)
- Rtl sdr v3 (1)
- Mini gps tracker (1)
- SD card reader (1)
- Microsdxcs (1 or +)
- Solar plate connection (3)
- Bms (1)
- Voltrimeter (1)
- 9v Ion Lation Battery (1)
- Bridges h (3 or +)
- Ipec magnetic sensor (1)
- Portable Thermal Camera (1)
- Reflective Infrared Sensor (1)
- Camera sq11 (2)
Expectations
To develop a sustainable science research and get the data that engineering needs to combat the pollution in seas with innovator technology.
Benefits
The low cost of the sub-dolphin can help with the financial problems of developing an usable and sustainable way to do the research that the database of a new platform can involve. The coding has been made to run in a lot of devices too.
Space Agency Data
We will need to use the satellites of GPS (Global Positioning System) scattered all around the world for live accompaniment of the sub-dolphin. There are 62 satellites from the GPS mission that can provide precise measurements of geographic and geodetic location. The Standard Positioning Service (SPS) is the most used segment for civil usage but Precise Positioning Service (PPS) offered by the Department of the United States can also be used for more precise data for the US Government.
Hackathon Journey
The experience
Being part of the community of hackers to participate in the Space Apps is an honor for us. We are glad to learn more about developing an app and also designing, creating, selecting, collecting and all of the verbs that can tell a little more about our work with the sub-dolphin.
Inspiration
Brazil is a big polluter of the seas, generating around 325 thousand tons of plastic garbage per year. All of this has an impact on our beach shores and environment. Unfortunately, our generation has to deal with the damage that has been occurring since our times of colonialism. The huge lack of information is one of the biggest problems that Brazil has to solve, an ignorance that isn’t based on scientific truth. Our inspiration is the wish of solving this trouble from years ago, becoming the ‘this end with us’ generation. Quoting the King Stephen Hawking:
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Teamwork
All of the participants in the team are from different states of Brazil and to solve our challenges we had to use the internet. Creating polls and debates became our most effective form of getting a fast solution for the project.
We’re thankful for...
Professors from the TC (Technology Center) and CNES (Center of Natural and Exact Sciences) from the Federal University of Santa Maria in Brazil that inspired us to pursue the aerospace field and create a wonderful project.
the online lives from the state of Mato Grosso that have an impact in our decision to choose to participate in the challenge.
the creators and ambassadors of the Space Apps, for never stop trying to give us the best support.
References
https://www.embrapa.br/satelites-de-monitoramento/missoes/gps
https://www.epa.gov/trash-free-waters/toxicological-threats-plastic
Ibis Paint X
Tinkercad
PowerPoint
CSS, HTML, Java and JavaScript
Tags
#SpaceApps #overseas #sub-dolphin #marinelife #design #hardware #ia #online #accessibleplatform #research #submarine #online #HTML #CSS #creators #seas #pollution # innovation #aiinprogress
Global Judging
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