Water Transport Infrastructure

Group Members

Name	Student Id
Han Wei Chia	1002684
Hans Chia	0979848
Joost Roordink	1005406
Dennis Rizviç	1020540
Minjin Song	1194206
Thomas Gian	0995114

Subject

According to research, one in six people have no access to drinkable water. Even if they have a water source, it takes them hours of travelling long distances to reach it. This causes a harsh environment for humans to survive in. Current methods of transporting water require expensive infrastructure investments, which is often not affordable for areas where water access is limited (they often tend to be fairly poor). Using a robot instead allows for using smaller sources of water where the water production doesn’t justify the cost of necessary infrastructure. It also has the added advantage of not needing many man hours to operate compared to carrying by hand or even using a truck. We want to design an infrastructure that incorporates these robots that is more viable than currently in use infrastructures.

Objectives

Our objective is to design a autonomous water gathering infrastructure. More precisely, to realize water transport robots that can locate, transport and clean water. See if incorporating these in currency infrastructures is viable or/and design a new infrastructure ourself incorporating this idea.

Users

Communities that have no convenient access to water in areas with a semi-arid or desert climate. We assume these areas can generate the amount of solar power needed to power the water transport robot for most of the day.

Approach

Before we can start anything, we got to research papers around our subject and summarize the content of them. The main reason for gathering this information is to expand our current knowledge about this subject and get accustomed to different techniques or approaches. This is closely followed by establishing the USE aspects. With all of this we will start researching 5 things: Locating water, Water transport, Water cleansing and Existing infrastructures. With this we able to realise our water transport robots and able to research if corporating these in currency infrastructures is viable and create an optimal infrastructure by combining strengths of these infrastructures.

Milestones

• Summaries research papers
• USE Aspects
• Locating water research
• Water Transport research
• Water cleansing research
• Existing infrastructure research
• Realize water transport robot
• Incorporate water transport robot in infrastructure.

Deliverables

• Logbook
• Planning
• Final document (including code)
• Presentation
• Research paper of the infrastructure , With Advantages, disadvantages and cost comparisons.

Literature study

Summary of Literature's