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Kristof Balasanian

Internship Highlights

7/25/2025

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What is Amidon Heavy Industries?

  • amidonheavyindustries.com
  • Seed stage startup building a autonomous marine robot ecosystem to monitor critical subsea infrastructure more frequently, cheaper, and faster
  • Vocabulary:
    • USV: Unmanned Surface Vehicle
    • AUV: Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
    • ROV: Remotely Operated Vehicle
  • Joined as an intern when the company only had 3 full time employees
    • The goal was to build a working demo vehicle as quick as possible
    • The following slides are high level overview of my projects, speed was the priority so a majority of the engineering was done on excel and whiteboards
    • “Prototypes are easy production is hard”

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Fishing Hole

  • Architecture for ROV to USV recovery system
  • This deploys and recovers the vehicle in the previous slide to the surface boat

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Linear Actuator Test Bed

  • Used to tune rudder PIDs

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Battery

  • Full battery presentation

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Architecture

Voltage (V)

Capacity (Wh)

Cost

BR

4S6P

16.8

302.4

$400.00

AHI

6S6P

25.2

453.6

$255.62

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Propeller Test Stand

  • Used load cell, arduino, and V/I sensors to find efficiency of custom propellers

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AUV Electronics Tray

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AUV Electronics Tray

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Hull CAD

  • Supplier did not provide CAD but we needed a model for our assembly
  • Used 3D printed jigs to check dimensional accuracy for mounting holes

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ROV

  • Assembled, troubleshooted, and tested a off the shelf ROV

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CFD

  • Hull drag characterization for AUV