The Systems and Design Philosophy of Mosquito 2.0

Abstract

The MSOE Underwater Robotics Team is a fifth year student organization at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. Last year, the team attended the international competition at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory and placed fifth attracting the attention of the new students and faculty members. This year’s ROV, Mosquito 2.0, was designed specifically to be compact, practical and modular, focusing on adaptability and stability to be able to complete any scheduled task, while being able to change critical systems for future endeavors. A subsystem approach to design allowed a lot of collaboration to happen since each part of the ROV could be worked on separately and brought together with ease.