Oystamaran: An Implementation of Autonomy in Surface Vehicles for Oyster Farming

With the evergrowing field and demand of aquafarming, many farms must find ways to optimize their processes. For Ward Aquafarms down in Cape Cod, one particular bottleneck is the flipping of oyster bags. The workers must regularly flip the bags filled with oysters and other products in order to encourage the flow of oxygen. With hundreds of bags, this is a strenuous and time-consuming process that is currently done by hand. In this thesis, we present a design and approach of the software and hardware design components to reaching a robust and cost-effective, automated solution via surface vehicle. This system is currently being designed and implemented for testing in cooperation with Ward Aquafarms and MIT SeaGrant.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2021

Author dc:creator

• Tung, Matthew Chhamnan

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Triantafyllou, Michael

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
• Copyright MIT

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139084

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/139084