PRE2015 4 Groep5

Seaweed farming

Group members

• Aniceta, N.M.F (0876672)
• Boelsums, N.M (0964376)
• Brandts, A (0895917)
• Haenen, S.R.R (0889428)
• Kuijpers, J.J.L (0838617)

Benefits

• Enhances natural water ecosystem
  • Various types combats a monoculture
• Cheaper and sustainable food supply
  • For livestock (veevoer)
    • Decreases the need for deforestation
  • For humans
• Descreases the magnitude of waves
• Reduces the CO2/ increases the O2 in the water
• Zee is better than in a basin
  • Natural nutrition supply

Proposals

• Floating robot
  • Solar panel
  • Lowering (anker-style) cutter
  • Hard to position,
    • Drifts
    • “Dijnst[dutch]”
• Rover robot
  • Stable polypoid (crab-style)
  • Hard to cut above his head
• Swimming robot
  • May become struck between the weed
  • Perfect mobility and can cut everywhere

Combination of multiple robot’s for every seafruit a suitable robot.

USE: stakeholders and benefits

• Why? => Provide a feasible feedback
• Users: Livestock farmers (veevoer), Foodbuyers
• Enterprise: Seafarmers
• Society: Reduces the shortage of food

Tasks

Logbook

Drive

USE Waterptret

Sources

• The Seas Will Save Us: How an Army of Ocean Farmers are Starting an Economic Revolution
• Handbook Seaweed Cultivation
• Maritime Robotics [32C3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iouy-vnBYA8
• World map of sea-depth; original image (slow commection), faster image.