The design of underwater unmanned vehicles is an interdisciplinary study that includes several fields, such as computational fluid dynamics, modeling and control of systems, robotics, image processing, and electronic card design. The operational cost of such vehicles is high because it is dependent on variable fluid properties like salinity and high pressure while its’ mobility must be resistant to environmental conditions such as undersea. The study describes an operating platform, called Lucky Fin, on which the students can develop various control algorithms and can test and extract hydrodynamic parameters of the underwater vehicle. The platform consists of an underwater vehicle and two testing tanks. The control card, the user control program interface, and a manipulator’s arm are designed to be used for a series of control applications such as depth, heading, target tracking, and capturing. The results of several tests are illustrated in this article.

水下无人飞行器的设计是一项跨学科研究，包括计算流体动力学、系统建模和控制、机器人技术、图像处理和电子卡设计等多个领域。这种车辆的运营成本很高，因为它依赖于可变的流体特性，如盐度和高压，而它的机动性必须能够抵抗海底等环境条件。该研究描述了一个名为 Lucky Fin 的操作平台，学生可以在该平台上开发各种控制算法，并可以测试和提取水下航行器的水动力参数。该平台由一个水下航行器和两个测试罐组成。控制卡，用户控制程序界面，机械臂设计用于一系列控制应用，例如深度、航向、目标跟踪和捕获。本文说明了几个测试的结果。