Robots & Design
Design plays a fundamental role in engineering and how well its solutions can be implemented in the real world. Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado Ph.D.
Design plays a fundamental role in engineering and how well its solutions can be implemented in the real world. Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado Ph.D.
Exploiting natural modes of vibration of a flexible body to obtain desired body motions for locomotion. Structural modes are tailored by manipulating the material distributions throughout the body. A fish example illustrates the main idea of traditional stiff complex assemblies vs. simpler monolithic flexible bodies.
The movies below give a good sense of the capabilities of these robots.
MOVIES:
Fish wake dye visualization
Fish start
Fish caudal fin back view
