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The project idea is a swimming robotic jellyfish, that would be propelled by the motion of its body and legs contracting. The jellyfish would be mostly constructed of soft silicon materials, with pneumatic actuators installed to create motion. The components of the pneumatic system could be installed outside the tank and have air tubes running
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This is a building called “Revolving Bricks Serai”. The purpose of the design is to provide privacy to the occupants of the building while allowing for natural lights to come through. The varied of angles of the wooden blocks create an “illusion” effect to viewers, and was designed via “parametric design”. The artist seemed to
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I began my search by googling some terms like “kinetic sculpture”, “bio inspired”, “soft sculpture”, and “moving art”. I saw an article about a kinetic sculpture to mimic the movement of a sea turtle. Even though it wasn’t a “soft” sculpture, it created life like motion. I scrolled to the bottom of the article and
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Paper Title: Thrust force characterization of free-swimming soft rob Jennifer Frame, Nick Lopez, Oscar Curet, and Erik D. Engeberg. Thrust force characterization of free-swimming soft robotic jellyfish. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, 2018. doi:10.1088/1748-3190/aadcb3 Originality. All papers must present original work. This paper appears to present original work. The authors designed and implemented the jellyfish robots. They
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Source Paper: Thrust force characterization of free-swimming soft robotic jellyfish. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics I started with this paper from the course bibliography. Since I’m interested in making a robotic jellyfish/octopus swimmer, I was interested in past works on this topic. The authors made 5 different soft jellyfish robots that could freely swim underwater, and compared
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Physical structures were generated for soft robots using an evolutionary algorithm that determined where actuated material should be placed versus passive materials.J. Hiller and H. Lipson. Automatic design and manufacture of soft robots. Robotics, IEEE Transactions on, 28(2):457–466, 2012. doi:10.1109/TRO.2011.2172702. This paper proposes a kinematic model for soft robots that fits a deformable curve to
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