Society of Robots - Robot Forum
General Misc => Robot Videos => Topic started by: Admin on June 04, 2011, 05:11:18 PM
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Skip to 0:39, and watch from there. Its called the Voith Schneider propeller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith_Schneider_Propeller), and looks to be perfect for a UUV . . .
Stingray Underwater Craft (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYVhpFxxofE#ws)
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Old technology, I remember seeing them on the discovery channel as a kid.
Seems to me like it's too many moving parts, more to break. But I also don't claim to know much about mech engineering at all. ;D
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Yea, youtube has plenty of videos on it . . . but this is the first time I've seen it on a robot. Mechanically, it's very complicated, and not nearly as efficient as a prop. That said, it offers 2 DoF while a prop offers only 1 DoF.