System Conceptual Design for an Air-Deployable Amphibious Vehicle

This report presents a conceptual design for an Air-Deployable Amphibious Vehicle (ADAV) system. It outlines the system's requirements, including the need for integration across land, air, and sea operations, and the enhancement of geographical maneuverability. The report covers user requirements, industrial capabilities, and activities such as design (geotechnical technologies, hardware/software integration), manufacturing, modeling/simulation, logistic support, and training. Key constraints, including maneuverability, system integration, security, communication systems, reliability, and user interface, are addressed. The system aims to use clean energy, minimize environmental impact, and ensure full functionality. It includes an online system connected to the ADAV device for monitoring and data recording. The report also details the hardware and software requirements, including cloud-based architecture for system integration and external hardware monitoring. The conceptual design includes a data flow diagram and focuses on providing authorities with efficient monitoring capabilities for border protection, rescue missions, and secret operations.

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Executive Summary:
The report deals with the conceptual design of an Air-Deployable Amphibious Vehicle system.
The system requirements and the needs for the system has been provided in this report. The
designing of the system has been done according to the needs of the system. This report has been
used to provide all the major details about the conceptual design for the system. For the
understanding of the conceptual design for the system additional illustrations have also been
provided in the report.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Overview of User requirements.......................................................................................................3
Industrial capabilities and Activities...............................................................................................3
Air-Deployable Amphibious Vehicle System.................................................................................4
Diagrams and Illustrations:..............................................................................................................7
Conclusions and Recommendations................................................................................................8
Bibliography....................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
System and Capability
The designing of a system is very important as this process makes the implementation of
the system easier. The design can be developed conceptually with help of several tools
(Chernyshova et al. 2015). The conceptual design helps in the illustration of different types of
limitations and constraints prevalent within the organization. This report is concerned with the
development of conceptual design for the Air-Deployable Amphibious Vehicle system. From the
case study the major requirement for the system has been identified is that the system should be
having a perfect integration with the land and the sea operations. In addition to this, the
geographical maneuvers for the authorities should also be increased to a great extent. The
geographical barriers are also required to be reduced to a great extent.
Air-Deployable Amphibious Vehicle
The Air-Deployable Amphibious Vehicle system depends on the current situation in
Australia. The country has a huge variety of complex landscapes. It is known that the country is
involved in the various type of international collaborative missions all over the world. Hence, it
is very important that similar type of capability is required for their international development as
well (Ho et al. 2015). The system operates on water and on the air in addition to the land.
The system should be capable of providing support to the defense forces and taking part
in the defense missions and the surveillance of the country. The system would also be helpful in
various firefighting, rescue missions and secret operations. This system would be very active in
the collaborative missions taken up by the country and assist them in the process.
Overview of User requirements
The main user for the system would be authorities and the clients. The authorities require
to monitor over the army and the marine. This can be done by the by providing the users with the
ability to move around without any difficulties. This would enable the authorities to obtain
proper monitoring abilities over the border protection, firefighting events, and disastrous events,
carry out rescue missions and secret operations as well. In addition to this, the authorities should
be able to move on land, air, and water as well (Donovan, Roberts and Wolff 2015). The
response time in between the administrator and the users should be reduced to a certain extent so
that the methods would work better.
Industrial capabilities and Activities
The industrial capabilities and the activities of the Air-Deployable Amphibious Vehicle
system are provided below:
Design: The designing would majorly be based on the geotechnical technologies. The system
will be designed to provide the authorities with a good monitoring opportunities. The designing

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of the hardware and the software have to be well integrated and all the hardware devices have to
be integrated to the system (Lev et al. 2017). The system designed would be meeting all the
criteria for the users. All the users would be able to use the system and perform the required
operation for the benefit of the authorities. The concepts used for the development of the system
would enable the system to keep track of all the incidents around the area. This would help in
safeguarding the area and help in the defense system of the area. In addition to this, in case of an
incident, a proper follow can be taken and the situation can be resolved accordingly.
Manufacturing: The hardware manufacturing should be done in separate factory where the
designing and the testing of the hardware of the system would be done. Additionally the raw
materials are to be collected and stored in a separate location. The system has to be manufactured
with a high stability is different types of landscapes.
Modeling/Simulation: The simulation phase would involve the hardware devices to be tested on
different form of landscapes and the speed and the efficiencies of the devices would be tested
(Nocente et al. 2017). There will be a network of hardware that has to be integrated successfully
with the system. The authorities would be present during the simulation and would be able to
provide important insights on the development of the systems. This would provide an excellent
analysis of the system and help them in up gradation.
Logistic Support: The main focus would be on the major issues of the system and hence the
support system would be required to address the issues related to the system. There are
transformations in the defense mechanism for the region and hence, the situation can be easily
addressed with the up gradation of the system (Scharre 2014). Other issues such as time
constrains and budget complexities would require addressing. The best options are to be adopted
so that the system can be implemented within the budget and maintain the time constrains. The
main issues are to be handled by the managers handling the development of the system.
Training: The staffs and the authorities have to be trained on the systems so that they can
understand the working of the system and would be able to perform efficiently on the systems.
The staffs of the organization have to get accustomed with the system and all the devices that are
integrated with the system. Additionally, the staffs hired for performing the operations on the
system should be divided into three categories and each group should be provided with distinct
training facilities. Hence, a strict training schedule is to be maintained by the authorities and the
organization intending to deploy the Air-Deployable Amphibious Vehicle System.
Air-Deployable Amphibious Vehicle System
The main constraints for the development of the system are:
Maneuverability: The designed system should be maneuverable easily across water, land and air
as well. This would be very helpful for the authorities to move to the location of incident in a
short span of time. The system should also be resistant to a variety of complex situations
(Abhisesh et al. 2017). The devices should have protection mechanisms installed in them so that
they can deploy automatic protection for themselves in extreme conditions.
System integration: The system design would be complex as the Air-Deployable Amphibious
Vehicle system is a large system. Hence, the system would involve a large number of hardware

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to be assembled together. In addition to this, they have to incorporate with the software as well.
Additionally there are a large number of other monitoring devices that have to be connected with
the main system as well. This involves a complex procedure and hence the integration of all the
parts of the system has to be done efficiently.
Security: The system developed should fully secure. This is because the data stored in the system
would be very confidential and should be restricted. In case of data loss or data hampering the
work of the authorities would be hampered. Hence, security is very essential.
Set up of communication system: The Air-Deployable Amphibious Vehicle system that would
be developed has to be configured with an efficient communication system. This would help the
authorities in conveying the message across the area (Crosdale et al. 2016). As a result they
would be able to take action with an alacrity. The communication system deployed in the system
should also be a wireless one, so that there would be no constrains of cable connection.
Reliability: The system developed should be reliable enough. The system should not be lagging
and the response time would be reduced or else the efficiency of the system would get reduced.
The system should also have a very efficient data storing function installed in it. This would
make sure that the data from the system are not lost or the data is not deleted easily. This would
reduce the hassles that take place during the operations.
User Interface: The User Interface of the system should also be very user-friendly and the users
would be able to get to the options they are looking for without much of a hassle (Gordon et al.
2014). The navigation and the menus in the system have to be implemented efficiently so that the
user is guided to the right option that he or she is looking for.
Policy Statement: The Air-Deployable Amphibious Vehicle system has to be provided with a
policy statement for the designing, planning and maintenance. This would ensure that the
sustainable practices are adopted by the organization and the stakeholders related to the
development of the system. The developed policy be developed keeping in mind constrains for
development of the system. The major capabilities of the system that the authorities are required
to work on are provided below:
 Energy: The energy used by the Air-Deployable Amphibious Vehicle system should be
clean energy and should be using renewable energy as much as possible. The people
developing the system should also keep in mind the safety of health of the people during
the deployment phase.
 Natural Resources: For the development of the system the natural resources should be
not be hampered and it is to be kept in mind that the waste products of the system do not
hamper the natural environment. In addition to this, it should be kept in mind that the
release of the greenhouse do not affect the nature and the atmosphere should remain
unaffected.
Functionality: The system should be fully functional and all the requirements for the clients
should be maintained. Failing to provide any functionality would result in the system is
inefficient. System design: For the meeting the demands of the clients it has been decided that an
online system would be developed for the Air-Deployable Amphibious Vehicle that would be
connected to the ADAV device.

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Monitoring: The officials would be able to monitor the areas directly from the devices. In
addition to this, the system would be connected to all the surveillance device across the area.
Hence, the authorities would be able to keep track of the incidents across the area. In addition to
this, a database system would be able connected to the backend of the system that would record
all the major activities occur in the area (Laske and Sweeney 2016). The authorities would be
able to view the incidents and assign people to actions for the incidents. Once the actions have
been completed the incidents would be closed automatically by the system. All the data would be
recorded in the system and used for future references.
Requirements Analysis and Allocation: For the implementation of the project, there are two
types of requirement. First is the hardware requirement and the hardware should be adaptable on
the land, air, and water as well (Murphy, Hoffman and Schaub 2016). Additionally, the
monitoring hardware are to be connected to the system and there should be scope of management
of the hardware. This would enable the system to keep track of the details across every type of
landscapes. In addition to this, the main software requirement for is that the cloud-based
architecture is to be adopted for the development of the system. Software required for the
integration of the different part of the system and the monitoring the external hardware
connected to the system are required to be installed into the system.

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Diagrams and Illustrations:
Conceptual Design
Figure 1: Conceptual Design
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Data Flow Diagram
Figure 2: Data Flow Diagram
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Conclusions and Recommendations
For conclusion, it can be said that the ADAV would work best on a cloud-based solution.
This system would help in the monitoring and maintain the security of the area. The defense
mechanism for the system is also required to be up to the mark as the Air-Deployable
Amphibious Vehicle System would be working on very complex landscapes at time.
Additionally it can also be said that the designed system would be a multipurpose one and would
be able to perform a huge variety of takes. In addition to this, some additional recommendations
are there:
Firstly, the system should be maintained and updated regularly so that the systems are not
outdated and perform their task on time. Secondly, hardware should also be monitored regularly,
so that the system works properly. In addition to this, the data storing mechanism within the
system should be properly implemented so that important data from the system are leaked or
deleted. The leakage in information can hamper the organization that are deploying the system.

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