Mintlaw ROV Team
2024
We are Mintlaw ROV Team
Here at Mintlaw ROV, we are a small group of 3rd-6th-year students at Mintlaw Academy building our own Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle. With support from our sponsors and mentor, Ali Hynd, we aim to compete internationally at the MATE ROV Competition. We then aim to share our newly established skills and passion for engineering with anyone we can.
Company values
We have laid out some values that are close to us as individuals and help us understand how to operate better as a team.
Success
Ensure not only success in competitions but also personal success in becoming the best we can be in all aspects along with helping others achieve the same.
Education
Use our knowledge and lessons from the project to inspire and promote engineering and equality to ALL.
Aspiration
Always aspire to push ourselves to new heights. Never be afraid to progress our skillset and design and never give up trying.
2024 Project
What makes us unique?
We manufacture the majority of components we utilise in our vehicle ourselves, on-site. Our vehicle's frame will be made from transparent acrylic when our prototyping stage is complete. Our current test frame consists of 3mm acrylic held with M6 bolts, we are yet to see how our design copes with various factors. We design all of our parts in CAD software and laser-cut a given material to the accurate dimensions we require.
Later this year, we as a team plan to experiment with 3d printing some elements of our design such as protection shrouds to cover our six Blue Robotics T100 thrusters. Such components would be an upgrade from our last vehicle with inferior laser-cut shrouds with mesh, cable-tied to secure the part to the thruster.
2021-22 vehicle with pressure vessel internals and control box