Tag: design
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Beach Cleaner Project from BCC
The Beach Cleaner Project focuses on developing a lightweight, practical, and affordable tool designed to clean beaches efficiently from plastics, general debris and natural material, without compromising the natural environment. The aim is to create a user-friendly solution that allows anyone to maintain coastal areas and beachfront properties, such as hotels and beach clubs in a
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Control of an aquatic snake robot inspired by lampreys’ Central Pattern Generator
Aquatic robots inspired by snakes or eels can move with extreme agility and maneuverability, and are able to swim through narrow spaces and confined environments, opening the possibility to use these robots for environmental monitoring, search and rescue or infrastructure inspection. This robot is composed of nine modules that move generating a wave traveling from
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Remote Centre of Motion Compliant Mechanisms as supports for ECRH mirrors
General Introduction on nuclear fusion (reading is strongly advised!) The goal of this activity is to improve the current design of the DTT ECRH mirror flexible supports (see Figure 3). These components are flexible monolithic structures, which allow large rotations of the mirror about its horizontal axis, while being very stiff with respect to all
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Development of a statically balanced Remote Centre of Motion flexure pivot
General Introduction on nuclear fusion (reading is strongly advised!) Flexure pivots are monolithic devices that can undergo large rotations about one axis, while being very stiff with respect to all other degrees of freedom. Remote Centre of Motion flexure pivots, like the one shown in Figure 3, allow rotations about a virtual axis that is
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Design of a small-footprint MEMS gyroscope
MEMS gyroscopes are micro sensors for angular rate, which can be found in almost any electric device, from smartphones to drones, cars, and robots. The trend of the industry nowadays is to go for ever smaller footprint sensors so that they can be embedded in a smaller system, absorb less energy, and last (but not