Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are playing a growing role in modern sub ocean operations, generating a demand for faster, more maneuverable designs which are capable of deployments of increasingly longer duration. In order to meet these demands, vehicle developers have been looking at biological aquatic animals for inspiration. This is because these creatures have been evolving for millions of years, fish and cetaceans have developed a fast and efficient locomotion techniques, with levels of maneuverability that far outperform conventional engineered marine locomotion systems.
Autonomous underwater vehicle biomimetic design
The design of AUVs has a direct effect on factors such as speed, maneuverability, maximum deployment time, reliability, and general robustness. All these factors directly affect operational costs and thus commercial viability. In order to improve these factors, developers are looking towards the growing subject of biomimetics.
Tadpoles are potential creatures for research on developing underwater vehicles with higher capabilities. A recent developed robot inspired by tadpole is called a Tadro (TADpoleRObots) which basically seeks light since its the basic of photosynthesis.
Listen to an inspiring interview by the developer from the link below:
Tadro Prototype
How is tadpoles help for developing the underwater vehicle?
ReplyDeleteDear our follower, tadpoles are inspirations in many ways for under water vehicles, for instance despite the light weight, they have a very flexible and hydrodynamic style of swimming and observing these factors not only can be a new gate to develop unique technology in under water vehicle area but also an opportunity to study more about these creatures to get inspiration. Tadpoles pretty much like other creatures in the world, have been through evolution and that means they have developed certain qualities according to the environment they have been, and in their case is underwater, hence any difficulties and challenges current technology is facing can be studied further by looking into them.
DeleteHow about the type of body parts used ? and how much weight it can support ?
ReplyDeleteare you asking about the body parts used in the tadro?
Deletegood read..:)
ReplyDeletethank you, im glad you liked it
DeleteDeep sea exploration can be enhanced by using tadpoles as inspiration. Good article guys!
ReplyDeletethank you kala :)
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