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AUV Ballast & Thruster Control

Interactive 3D AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle) simulator: fill or empty ballast tanks to control buoyancy and depth without spending thruster energy, and vector six thrusters for full 6-DOF motion — surge, sway, heave, roll, pitch and yaw.

Robotics & Kinematics3DModerate60 FPS💧 Water

Details

CategoryRobotics & Kinematics

RenderingThree.js · WebGL

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsBallast fill slider (0-100%) floods/purges the ballast tanks to sink, rise, or hold neutral buoyancy; direction pad buttons (Fwd / Rev / Sway left / Sway right / Yaw left / Yaw right / Stop) fire the four horizontal thrusters in the real vectoring combination for that motion; Reset returns ballast, depth, heading and velocity to the start state.

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A 3D control simulator for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), demonstrating the two real mechanisms that give underwater robots full 6-DOF freedom of motion. Slide the ballast control to flood or purge the vehicle's ballast tanks — watch the hull sink, rise, or hover at neutral buoyancy exactly like a submarine, without spending any thruster energy. Then use the direction pad to fire the six vectored thrusters for forward/reverse, lateral sway, and yaw rotation, with a live readout of every thruster's individual output. The buoyancy meter and depth gauge track the vehicle's real-time state as both systems combine to move it anywhere in the water column.

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Interactive 3D AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle) simulator: fill or empty ballast tanks to control buoyancy and depth without spending thruster energy, then vector six thrusters for full 6-DOF motion - surge, sway, heave, roll, pitch and yaw. Live buoyancy meter, per-thruster output panel and depth gauge.

Three.jsRoboticsUnderwaterAUVBuoyancy Control

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install