{"id":155,"date":"2022-03-11T09:04:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T08:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/au.feri.um.si\/lpa\/?p=155"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:46:15","slug":"regulator-plovnosti-potapljaca-s-potapljaskim-jopicem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/au.feri.um.si\/lpa\/en\/regulator-plovnosti-potapljaca-s-potapljaskim-jopicem\/","title":{"rendered":"Diver buoyancy controller using a buoyancy compensator"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull au-section au-section--dark au-projhero is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group au-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"au-back wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/lpa\/en\/raziskovalno-delo\/#raziskovalni-projekti\">\u2190 Research projects<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"au-eyebrow wp-block-paragraph\">01.1 \u00b7 Research project<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Diver buoyancy controller using a buoyancy compensator<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"au-lead wp-block-paragraph\">A controller that automatically raises and lowers a diver using a buoyancy compensator (BCD). Manual buoyancy control is difficult because buoyancy depends on depth and visibility under water is often poor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-group alignfull au-section is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group au-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns au-projbody is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-89c98654 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diving equipment manufacturers are constantly trying to make diving more comfortable and safer. One of the major problems is controlling the volume of the buoyancy compensator. The aim of the project is to build a diver buoyancy controller for automated and autonomous ascent and descent with a buoyancy compensator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are at least two good reasons why manual buoyancy control is difficult:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list au-steps\">\n<li><strong>Compressibility<\/strong>: the diver's buoyancy depends on depth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Poor visibility<\/strong>: information about the speed and depth of the dive is hard to perceive.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column au-facts is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table au-facts__table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Type<\/td><td>Research project<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Task<\/td><td>Automatic ascent and descent of the diver<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Actuator<\/td><td>Buoyancy compensator (volume)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure 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steam<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 Raziskovalni projekti 01.1 \u00b7 Raziskovalni projekt Regulator plovnosti potaplja\u010da s potaplja\u0161kim jopi\u010dem Regulator, ki potaplja\u010da samodejno dviga in spu\u0161\u010da s potaplja\u0161kim jopi\u010dem. Ro\u010dno krmiljenje plovnosti je te\u017eavno, ker je plovnost odvisna od globine, pod vodo pa je pogosto tudi slaba vidljivost. O projektu Proizvajalci potaplja\u0161ke opreme se ves \u010das trudijo pove\u010dati udobje in varnost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"page-brez-naslova","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-raziskovalno-delo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/au.feri.um.si\/lpa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/au.feri.um.si\/lpa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/au.feri.um.si\/lpa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/au.feri.um.si\/lpa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/au.feri.um.si\/lpa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/au.feri.um.si\/lpa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/au.feri.um.si\/lpa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/au.feri.um.si\/lpa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/au.feri.um.si\/lpa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}