Development of Pressure Type Underwater Glider / 氣壓式水下滑翔機製作

碩士 / 國立臺灣大學 / 工程科學及海洋工程學研究所 / 97 / The principle of the traditional buoyancy engine used in the underwater glider, is to use a screw rod to push a bladder, so that the inflow/outflow of the water volume in the water chamber is controlled by the bladder volume change. In this paper, the design and test of a underwater glider with pressure type buoyancy engine is conducted. The pressure type buoyancy engine is consisted of a tank with high pressurized liquid CO2, and a balloon in a buoyancy control water chamber. Through the electronic control valves and piping design, the vaporized CO2 would flow in (or out )of the balloon so to push the water out (or in) of the water chamber, eventually increased (and decrease )the buoyancy force of the glider.
The vertical lift /sink distance is monitored and controlled by a microprocessor and water depth pressure sensor to minimize the power consumption of the battery.
In order to avoid any malfunction and for the sake of recycling, an airbag is connected at the tail of the glider, which is controlled by an independent micro-controller, so that the airbag would inflate at time preset in advance, enable the glider to resurface.
A series of test in the towing tank and field test in the reservoir have been conducted to verify the feasibility of this concept. Testing result shows that the concept of the design is satisfied.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/097NTU05345029
Date January 2009
CreatorsQuan-Yu Wen, 溫冠宇
Contributors謝傳璋
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format64

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