{"id":1872,"date":"2017-11-15T12:54:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T19:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2017-12-17T01:57:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:57:39","slug":"bio-inspired-manta-ray-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hhhh.org\/joeboy\/blog\/?p=1872","title":{"rendered":"Bio-Inspired Manta Ray Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sketching up designs for the AUV frame I keep getting drawn towards doing a bio-inspired design. As part of that design arc I have started looking at what other people have done with bio-inspired underwater drones. Two of the inspirations I keep getting drawn back to are the whale shark and the manta ray. So I was really excited to find this. Researchers created a tiny manta-ray inspired swimming robot. <\/p>\n<p>Posting it here so everyone on the project can see it, but even if you don&#8217;t look at any of the other AUV stuff this work is awesome and I highly recommend looking at it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Light-guided Biohybrid Robotic Ray\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V1D4FPNnoig?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On a larger scale, back in 2012 the Bio-Inspired Engineering Research Laboratory (BIER Lab) (http:\/\/www.bartsmithlabs.com\/index.html) put together an interesting ROV ray based robot. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robotic Ray Takes a Swim\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1-iyPHse8uk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This video is worth watching. It does have that TV show puffery, but it makes up for it. The video shows how they used x-rays of cartilage of the rays as inspiration. It also shows their mechanical actuator for driving the fins in more details. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Discovery Channel finds UVa&#039;s Robotic Manta Rays\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FO4b0RifdB8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is probably my favorite stingray inspired robot. Not really bio-inspired, but its still kind of awesome. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stingray Underwater Craft\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pYVhpFxxofE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Update: Dec 17, 2017 &#8211; Just ran across this german company Festo, which also put out a ray inspired robot. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.festo.com\/group\/en\/cms\/10246.htm\">Link to it Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sketching up designs for the AUV frame I keep getting drawn towards doing a bio-inspired design. As part of that design arc I have started looking at what other people have done with bio-inspired underwater drones. Two of the inspirations I keep getting drawn back to are the whale shark and the manta ray. 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