Design, Modelling and Application of Microcontroller (MCU) on Marine Watertight Door

Abstract

In all Merchant Ship, to prevent water spilled to compartment in any weather condition, it is compulsory to fix with weather tight and watertight doors. Water tight door have to design carefully to have optimum function of safety. Normally on basic watertight doors, its design by hinged and operated manually without any power aid. In some severe condition, manual operate watertight door may bring harm to the personnel who operate it.

In this paper, author proposes a sliding watertight door with electromotor controlled by microcontroller and simulated on Proteus software and compiled with PIC c compiler and programmed into the microcontroller using a PIC 8 bit microcontroller programmer. This design of microcontroller was tested and simulated and found functioning well.