airPenguin –空中企鹅——自动飞翔的机器企鹅.
随着空中企鹅的问世, Festo公司的工程师们创造了人造企鹅,并教会他们“在空中自主飞行”。为此,控制和调节技术进一步发展成自我调节生物机电一体化系统,该系统可以在今后的生产适应性发挥作用。
一组3只自动飞行的企鹅自由盘旋在空中超声发射站监控下的固定区域。企鹅能够自由的在这个空间内移动,因为一个微控制器赋予了他们自由的意志来以开拓这片空间。
autonomously flying robotic penguins
With the AirPenguins, the engineers from Festo have created artificial penguins and have taught them "autonomous flight in the sea of air". For this purpose, control and regulating technology had to be further developed into self-regulating biomechatronic systems, which could also play a future role in adaptive production.
A group of three autonomously flying penguins hovers freely through a defined air space that is monitored by ultrasound transmission stations. The penguins are at liberty to move within this space; a microcontroller gives them free will in order to explore it.
水下企鹅- 技术-水下自动运载工具AquaPenguins - technology-bearers as autonomous underwater vehicle.与它自然界的原型一样,来自费斯托(Festo)公司的水下企鹅具有一个带水动力的身体轮廓。其优雅的推进力以及其可向各个方向移动的机翼头部和尾部,让机器人企鹅可以在狭窄的空间条件下自由穿行,并且在必要时及时出现甚至可以向后游——这一点可不像它们的自然界的原型。
仿生企鹅设计成水下自动运载工具,可以自由定位并且可在水池中穿行。这种工具有一个3D的海豚音声纳系统,使得“企鹅”可以与周围的伙伴们交流,比如避免互相碰撞。Like its natural archetype, the AquaPenguin from Festo has a hydrodynamic body contour. Its elegant wing propulsion and its head and tail sections, which can be moved in all directions, allow the robotic penguins to manoeuvre in cramped spatial conditions, to turn on the spot when necessary and – unlike their biological counterparts – even to swim backwards.
The bionic Penguins are designed as autonomous underwater vehicles that independently orient themselves and navigate through the water basin. They are supported by a 3D sonar system which, as with dolphins, allows communication with their surroundings and with other robotic penguins – for example to avoid collisions.