Design and Application of Microcontroller (MCU) On Sliding Watertight Doors Operated by Servo Motor

Abstract

Watertight doors are special type of doors found on the ships which prevent the ingress of water from one compartment to other during flooding or accident and therefore act as barrier. There is 3 classes of watertight door which is Class 3 is sliding powered watertight doors. Sliding watertight doors normally powered by electrical and mechanical. The main objective of this paper is to describe a simple design with effective system, and application of the microcontrollers unit (MCU) based system on Sliding watertight doors. These design using ARDUINO UNO R3 and were simulated using the software Proteus 8 Professional and then later to implement and test in the hardware models. The program has then compiled using CCS C compiler, the output, hex file of the program is loaded into PIC microcontroller using the ARDUINO UNO R3. Regardless this system program is to improvise and ensures the effectiveness operation of sliding watertight doors. Beside that is to ensure the operation of these sliding watertight doors meets requirement by SOLAS.