I'm making a few experiments with a quite simple rover car I made using Arduino UNO and a few spare parts. Just for the heck of it I made it waterproof and now I want to toss it in my pool to make some underwater exploration. Maybe I'll fit some scrubers under it to make it easer to clean the floor.
My problem is: my rover navigates on its own, avoiding walls and objects using an ultrasonic sensor. But underwater the speed of sound goes up, and different qualities of water make it even harder for this system to work. Sometimes the pool is full of particles, and the scruber will probably worse the water quality around the robot.
My question is: what kind of system is better to navigate underwater, simply avoiding walls? The current behavor (on dry ground) is to turn to the right and go on when it finds a wall, I would like to keep this behavior, but underwater. As it's a simple toy, I'm hardly willing to spend a hundred bucks on a fancy laser proximity sensor, neither I need to map the entire pool with a single pulse, it should be a simple wall avoiding system.
Thank you!
