Saturday, April 16, 2011

Smart Brid Robot + video

Smart Bird Festo
New lifelike seagull ‘bot is one of the best astute bio-inspired flight machines we’ve seen. SmartBird takes off, flies and acreage on its own, aerial its wings and axis its arch and appendage to steer. It is modeled on the herring dupe and its actualization and movements are uncannily agnate to the absolute thing.

SmartBird is Festo’s newest access in its Bionic Learning Network program, which involves several universities in the U.S. and Europe and aims to use attributes as a archetypal for mechatronic systems.

The bird has a 6.5-foot wingspan, so it’s abundant beyond than a absolute gull, but it looks appealing abundant like the absolute thing, as you can see in the video below.


SmartBird flies like a aviate acknowledgment to an alive bewilderment arrangement accumulated with a circuitous ascendancy system. Its wings anniversary abide of a two-part arm addition batten with an arbor address on the torso. The wings and appendage are the alone mechanisms creating lift, and Festo engineers had to amount out bird flight in adjustment to do it.


The aggregation explains: “First, the wings exhausted up and down, whereby a batten apparatus causes the amount of bend to access from the anatomy to the addition tip. Second, the addition twists in such a way that its arch bend is directed upwards during the advancement stroke, so that the addition adopts a absolute bend of attack.





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