Scientists can dive beneath the water surface to create a robot fish

Robotics researchers in Singapore mimics the movement of a carp that their new robot fish in the marine environment says a number of uses that can.

autonomous underwater robotic vehicle, nooks and corners of debris or sunken cities by the sea, underwater archaeology communication cable laying support, or can a number of military applications, he said .

National University of Singapore researchers program their robots to perform specific functions, and an underwater is freedom of movement within the environment can be.


"At present, 2-D movements of the robot fish to these models [below] are unable to dive in the water, are common means," Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University's Xu Jianxin.



"It's a real fish like diving and using his wings, can float as the movement of our model is capable of 3-D," a university release said Wednesday. I said. "Compared to traditional AUVs, with the highest mobility are certainly more mobile."

Researchers spent 3 months studying the movement of carp.

"We, like most fish swim because they have chosen to study carp," is Lupeng fan.A camera is used to capture and animation using various actuators on our real robot carp's movements. "

The researchers' prototype, about 5 feet in length and weigh about 22 pounds, diving to a depth of 6 feet can.