April Fool's Day each year on the eve of the Federation of German automation company Festo Bionic announced the launch of the new robot, following the previous seagull, dragonflies and kangaroos, Festo animal robot family Adds two new members: ants and butterflies.
Festo company "Bionic Learning Network (Bionic Learning Network)" project has always insisted on inspiration from nature in order to achieve the power of technology to provide new applications and industrial practical purposes, "to join the network (Join the Network)" is one of the themes of this year, this projects focusing on the development of small to emulate insect robot interaction and cooperation.
Bionic ant BionicANT
BionicANT long 13.5 cm, weighing about 105 g, body by laser sintering (3D printing) from head mounted 3D stereo camera, tentacles can use as a charging device, a small circuit covering the surface, science and technology lifestyle.
Light sensor BionicANT body beneath (similar to the mouse) to identify the direction of the ground infrared navigation markers, also comes with the camera can locate landmarks. The use of piezoelectric actuators leg bending sensor technology for precise control, sensor not only energy and minimal space requirements.
Bionic ant BionicANT cooperative behavior intended to imitate animals, according to clear rules for cooperation, communication and coordination with each other and act together to accomplish complex tasks. Festo BionicANT cooperative behavior is the first time the complex control algorithms applied to an empirical art.
Festo company said, "ANT" represents not only the nature of the ants, but also independent of network technology (Autonomous Networking Technologie) acronym fit "Bionic Learning Network" Project subject.
Butterfly eMotionButterflies
Festo company to manufacture bio-inspired flying robots have been numerous, eMotionButterflies regarded as one of the most beautiful one. Each butterfly is eMotionButterflies biomimetic autonomous, independent of the wings can be manipulated to achieve self-guided flight.
This bionic butterfly wings length 50 cm, the body weight of only 32 g, each equipped with a miniature motor drives the wings. eMotionButterflies wings 1-2 times per swing, 15 minutes on a single charge can be 3-4 minutes of flight speeds of up to 2.5 m / sec. In addition, each butterfly is also equipped with bionic inertial measurement unit, accelerometer, gyroscope, compass and two 90 mA lithium battery. A list of devices a lot, but on eMotionButterflies appearance with real butterflies are very similar, elegant facial flight attitude even more amazed.
Bionic butterfly flight to using technology is not difficult to understand, with the infrared camera in a specific sense of space in real-time measurement of the butterfly position, the position of the camera will transmit data to the computer to adjust the trajectory of a butterfly, to avoid collisions.
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