Background

A drifting sensor platform for ocean research is a small and cheap device which is able to measure water temperature and salinity on the waters surface. Oceanographers need these information to build models to investigate on water densities and ocean currents. Since the properties of the water strongly change in the upper water layer, not only surface information but also measurements in the first meter depths are of great interest. So far those kind of measurements bring a simple and cheap drifter to its limitations and much larger and more expensive tools have to be used.  

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Example Images show the deployment of a Carthe Drifter

Task Description

Given is a Drifter, which already has the implementations for measuring Temperature and Salinity on the waters surface. The Drifters dimensions are shown in the figure below.

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To keep the Drifter a low-cost device, the total costs of the diving device should be less than 100€.

Diving Procedure

The diving procedures are determined by the drifters logic and the divers logic needs to process the given instructions to control the diving process. A Diving procedure contains a set of three different water depths (up to a maximum of 10meters) which should be reached within a time frame of 2 minutes. Each target depths should be hold for 10 seconds with an accuracy of +/-0.1m.  The diver should keep its horizontal position at the moment of the start diving signal. Due to currents in the water, the divers downwards path might be disturbed in horizontal directions. 

Environment

You can use "environment.slx" file for making different connections between your model and environment. It has some input and output ports. As an example, a simple system connecting to the environment in the "sample.slx" file is shown.  Some items such as, the water flow velocity, density, and gravity are defined inside of the environment. You need to only put the inserting forces from drifter to the environment as input and connecting the poles of battery to your model. As can be seen in "sample.slx" you can show the X, Y, Z place, current, and voltage, by scope blocks.