I’ve started designing a boat using a relatively slow-speed catamaran configuration. Each pontoon has a thruster underneath to control propulsion and steering. Floating debris can enter the net bag at the stern between the two pontoons. After testing with a 1.5-meter-long net bag, I found the turning performance was very poor. I significantly reduced the net bag length to 0.5 meters, which improved steering significantly, though the turning radius remains about 2 meters.
I’m using an H734 flight controller, 6S battery, and thrusters with 5kg thrust each. During manual operation, the boat can effectively collect debris into the net bag. However, I’m struggling with image recognition for floating objects and how to make the boat automatically navigate toward identified targets. Are there any mature tutorials I could reference? I have a Raspberry Pi 3b and a camera module available.
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