The Unmanned Autonomous Cruise Ship for Water Quality Monitoring and Sampling

Abstract

Regular manual sampling and fixed node on-line detection are main methods of water quality monitoring in waters at present. Sampling nodes are subj ect to great restrictions. This paper presents an autonomous cruise unmanned ship for water quality monitoring and sampling, which can be achieved in the waters of any designated location for water quality sampling, achieves the real-time on-line monitoring of the whole water environment by means of the combination of dynamic nodes and static monitoring nodes. This paper introduces the control unit system, the ground station control unit system and the water quality sampling and the monitoring unit system of the unmanned ship and carries out the actual test. The unmanned ship designed in this paper has successfully achieved autonomous cruise, designated water quality sampling and dynamic online real-time water quality monitoring, which provides a new means for water quality monitoring in waters.