| Budget Amount *help |
¥17,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥5,980,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,380,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥6,630,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,530,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The sea transportation by ships covers most of trade volume, and the technologies to make fuel efficiency better and to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions are key research topics for future. One of the technical issues to improve fuel efficiency of ships is how to prevent the marine biofouling to the ship hulls and remove organisms from ships. In general, the cleaning of ship hull is carried out during the ship inspection in dockyard or by divers in harbour. Frequent cleaning of ship walls is desirable to keep good fuel efficiency, however, the ship inspection on dock is done once a year and the cleaning by divers is high-cost and involves high risk. One of the solutions for the problem is to introduce underwater robots with the function of cleaning ship surfaces. In this research, an underwater robot for ship hull cleaning is developed and examined through ship hull cleaning experiments.
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