1299results about "Propulsive elements of non-rotary type" patented technology

A pelagic free swimming aquatic vehicle includes a rigid forebody having a predetermined volume; a watertight chamber in the forebody; and a flexible afterbody having a lesser volume than the forebody and including a maneuvering and propulsion propulsion structure and a drive system for driving the structure with a traveling sinusoidal wave motion.

To access the inexhaustible energy source like seas and oceans we need to learn how to convert its wave motion to the customized power for our ships, for our existing littoral settlements and our future ocean settlements. Here is an attempt to develop method of the conversion the wave energy to power with floating means based on a gyroscope strong capability to resist against the outer force moment trying to tilt it to any side.The gyroscope is used as the fulcrum torque dynamic supporting instead traditional static base used in the issued devices. Alternate force moment created by the waves and transmitted to the gyroscope (via the floating body and the wave energy converter) inducts alternative gyro precession so as the gyroscope axis hesitates about mean position. This is important because it allows the gyroscope to keep dynamic fulcrum torque in unlimited time.The few gyroscope precession control devices and methods have been developed to compensate other reasons enforcing the mean gyro axis to drift from initial plumb.Also here are developed the new ship architecture with the separated floating gyro section. The wagging propulsor driven by the pitching and with strokes amplified by the fulcrum gyro section, the spring moment generator for the gyroscope drift compensation, non gyroscope floating power station able to derive, convert, accumulate and transmit wave energy to consumer also have been developed here.

A robotic architecture for capturing the autonomous performance advantages the animal models enjoy in the natural environment is disclosed. A biomimesis process is employed to allow selective utilization of basic physical components and adaptation of a common control paradigm for each of different vehicle types. The biomimetic architecture involves five functional elements: a basic biomorphic plant for capturing the biomechanical advantages of the model organism; a neural circuit-based controller consisting of a finite state machine; myomorphic actuators producing linear graded force in response to trains of current pulses for mediating movements; labeled line code output by neuromorphic sensors; and a reactive behavioral sequencer executing command sequences defined within a behavioral library.

A novel water craft, which may include a hull with a keel, having propulsion means extending below the water line. The propulsion means comprises a pair of flappers each adapted to oscillate through an arcuate path in a generally transverse direction with respect to the central longitudinal dimension of the watercraft. Means are operatively associated with the propulsion means for applying input force to the propulsion means. The flappers twist to form an angle of attack for providing forward thrust with respect to the longitudinal dimension of the watercraft while moving in both directions along the arcuate path.

Devices for navigating in a fluid medium having a solid boundary include a vehicle body and a fin attached to the vehicle body. The fin is configured to oscillate relative to the body such that interaction between the fin and the fluid medium produces propulsive forces that propel the vehicle body in a desired direction in the fluid medium. The fin is also configured to rotate relative to the body along a transverse axis such that engagement between the fin and the solid boundary propels the vehicle body in a desired direction on the solid boundary.

The invention discloses a novel modular bionic underwater robot based on full-flexible pectoral fins. A hydrodynamic module of eagle ray pectoral fins is analyzed, and motion of the pectoral fins is decomposed into vertical bending flapping in the vertical body longitudinal axis direction and twisting motion taking the vertical body longitudinal axis direction as the axis. The whole robot comprises a sectioned main body, a left flexible pectoral fin module, a right flexible pectoral fin module and a tail fin module, and a group module is formed by connecting fin connecting parts; the left and right flexible pectoral fin modules are identical in structure and are in mirror symmetry; a pectoral fin framework adopts a structure similar to that of a plane rib, a symmetrical airfoil is taken as the basic shape, and the pectoral fin modules with streamline sections are spliced through serial connection of straight pectoral fin trunk bones and steel wires. A large steering engine and a small steering engine are arranged at the root and the tip of each pectoral fin to control vertical flapping and twisting motion of each pectoral fin. Through adjustment of motion amplitude, motion frequency and phase difference of the two steering engines of each pectoral fin, different pectoral fin motion postures can be realized, and fish body motion can be finished better.

For any directed sea waves the rocking propelled ship can reach high speeds if it utilizes an sea waves energy by means of 1. A rocking propulsor, which is a couple of hydrofoils kept elastic cross by pivots on the extreme points of streamline narrow keel-rocker, extended far out off long sizes of the ship and thus wags hydrofoils vertically with a speed and an amplitude being sufficient for its proper work; 2. A "pendulum design" of a rocking propelled ship, described by a light wide body with weight, concentrated in a middle lowest ship's part and having a vertical keel with a heavy bob. This design provides the highest efficiency of an energy transmission from waves to ship rocking. In case of need to increase ship's speed some more its rocker should be rigged by an on-board oscillator, which is a central heavy flywheel, which is alternately twisted up to speed by a serve motor in both directions on cross axle in time (resonance) of ship rocking. In order to accelerate and change revolution directions without energy loss the flywheel is supplied by spring returners. If the ship is assigned to navigate in both sea state cases (high or calm) the oscillator is mounted into the rocking propulsor, which is attached to the ship bottom with a hinger. It can be locked to the bottom to be swinged by a rocking ship hull to propell the ship by wave generated rocking motion. It can be unlocked to be swinged by the board oscillator undependently from the ship hull to propel the ship in case of calm sea.

The invention discloses a biomimetic robotic dolphin. The biomimetic robotic dolphin comprises a beak part, a head shell, a pectoral fin mechanism, a main advancing mechanism, a tail part, a control part and a dolphin skin, wherein the beak part, the head shell and the pectoral fin mechanism form a streamlined head for the robotic dolphin; a left pectoral fin and a right pectoral fin are arranged on the two sides outside the head of the robotic dolphin and driven by six steering engines to swing, flap and turn respectively; the main advancing mechanism consists of a main flapping mechanism, a turning mechanism, a main advancing mechanism shell, a main advancing mechanism rubber pipe, a supporting frame and a dorsal fin which are driven by a direct current motor and the steering engines to realize flapping and turning of the body; the tail part comprises connecting nuts, a tail part skeleton and a tail fin flapping mechanism which are driven by the steering engines to realize the flapping of the tail fin; the control part consists of a control board, a communication module and a motor driver and is used for controlling the movement of the dolphin; and the dolphin skin is sleeved outside the mechanical structure of the robotic dolphin to realize integral sealing. The biomimetic robotic dolphin has the advantages of compact structure, realistic appearance and capability of providing an experiment platform for manufacturing tools for underwater operation.

Devices for navigating in a fluid medium having a solid boundary include a vehicle body and a fin attached to the vehicle body. The fin is configured to oscillate relative to the body such that interaction between the fin and the fluid medium produces propulsive forces that propel the vehicle body in a desired direction in the fluid medium. The fin is also configured to rotate relative to the body along a transverse axis such that engagement between the fin and the solid boundary propels the vehicle body in a desired direction on the solid boundary.

A bionic mechanical fish is composed of casing consisting of upper and lower halves, chest fins driven by step motor, tail unit consisting of tail fin, skin, frame, and fixing plate, and driven by linear motor, detecting unit consisting of miniature camera head, infrared sensor and pressure sensor, control unit comprising microcontroller, information acquisition module, motor driver and communication module, and float regulating unit consisting of linear motor and piston-cylinder reciprocating unit.

The invention discloses a biomimetic mechanical jellyfish that is driven by shape memory alloy wires, relates to a biomimetic mechanical jellyfish and aims at solving the problems that the existing biomimetic mechanical jellyfishes only simulate jellyfish actions, do not cover devices such as a drive device and the like, and have complex structure and the biomimetic effect that is totally different with the action principle of real jellyfishes. The biomimetic mechanical jellyfish has following structure: an action unit (10) consists of the shape memory alloy wires (12), an elastic body (13), a coating skin (15) and a substrate (16), the substrate (16) and the shape memory alloy wires (12) are fixedly arranged on the elastic body (13), the action unit (10) is coated inside an umbrella-like soft layer (11), the coating skin (15) covers outside the shape memory alloy wires (12), the substrate (16) and a sealing cover (3) are fixedly connected with a supporting body (2), a power source (7), a control device (5), a communication device (6) and a sinking and floating control device (9) are fixedly arranged on the supporting body (2), and the power source (7) provides electricity respectively to the control device (5), the communication device (6) and the shape memory alloy wires (12). The biomimetic mechanical jellyfish has simple structure, lightness, low production cost, large action range and good biomimetic effect.

The bionic mechanical jellyfish consists of a power system comprising four electromagnet devices, a driving system comprising four baffles and two return springs, a water jetting system comprising two leather bags, two water inlet pipes and four water outlet pipes, and a fixing rack comprising a right and a left fixing beam. The present invention has no noise, complete functions, simple structure, high work efficiency, low cost and other advantages.

The invention provides a multimodal amphibious bio-robot, which comprises a head, a replaceable wheel paddle / flipper mechanism, a propelling unit and a caudal peduncle compound drive mechanism. In water, the propelling unit and the caudal peduncle compound drive mechanism oscillate back and forth to propel by imitating a fish in the plane, and a rotating mechanism rotates the propelling unit and the caudal peduncle compound drive mechanism for 90 degrees, and switches the moving mode of propelling by imitating a fish into that of swimming by imitating a dolphin; and the flipper mechanism assists the tail propelling to accomplish actions of moving forward, moving backward, turning and pitching, and the paddle mechanism assists the robot turning. On land, the flipper mechanism rotates continuously to make the robot creep on the ground, imitates the movement of a wheel mechanism when rotating continuously, thereby the robot improves the speed of the movement, has obstacle-climbing capability, and a driven wheel reduces the resistance of the movement on the land. The robot can induce the own environment in real time by two liquid level sensors arranged at the head and the propelling unit respectively; and when the land and water environments are changed, according to the information of the liquid level sensors, a main control panel uses corresponding movement policies to accomplish the intelligent switching between the modes of moving on the land and in the water.

The invention discloses a video-supporting remotely-controlled fishing biomimetic robotic fish with dual joints to which the power is supplied by coordinately swinging dual tail fins in an opening and closing way and coordinately swinging dual pectoral fins. The biomimetic robotic fish has the characteristics of high speed, flexible turning, high water resistance, high stability, support of fishing, long working time and support of video. The key technology of the biomimetic robotic fish is that: a gear shaft handle is used for pushing a U-shaped shaft arm actuating device, so that the swinging of the tail fins and the dual pectoral fins has the characteristics of continuousness, rapidness, stableness, high efficiency, strong force and the like; a bolt is used for driving a gear arm running device by rotating, so that fish body steering, closing of a fish mouth and receiving and releasing of a fish net can be realized, and rapidness, accuracy and firmness are realized; a dual-layer circular tube nipple joint is sleeved on an anti-water-seepage and inner cavity anti-water-seepage alarm device of a dual-layer rubber tube, so that a mechanism in the abdomen of the fish is ensured; an air pump and an air bag are combined skillfully and applied flexibility, so that the head of robotic fish rises upwards during floating and extends downwards during sinking, a biomimetic function is realized, and the flexibility and diving speed can be increased; and video and the remote control are integrated, so that the function of fishing real fishes with a biomimetic fish is realized.

The invention relates to a machine fish, wherein it is characterized in that: it comprises a fish head module sealed, left and right chest fin modules, at least two driving modules, and caudal fin; said fish head module has controller and main motor for floating the left and right chest fin modules whose main axles via movable sealing device are connected to the main motor; the left and right chest fin modules both have assist motors to drive the chest fins up and down; the axle of chest fin via the movable sealing device is connected to the assist motors; the driving module via the swing rod is connected; the first driving module via the head-tail connector is fixed on the back of fish head module; the caudal fin via the connector is connected to the back of driving module. The invention can be used in underwater detection, etc.

A bionic machine fish of multimode consists of rigid fish head, flexible fish body with multiple joints and bionic fin mechanism of left and right pectoral fins as well as tail fin. It is featured as setting driving unit of pectoral fins, control circuit, power supply module, radio duplex communication module, infrared sensing unit, ultrasonic distance measuring unit of fish depth in water, small size of transducer and amplification circuit of peripheral wave-filtering in fish head.

The present invention relates to a marmem wire driven pectoral fin wave propulsion bionic underwater robot. It includes self-body and pectoral fin. The described pectoral fin includes at least four pectoral fin wave joints connected with self-body, between every adjacent two pectoral fin wave joints a fin film is connected. The described pectoral fin wave joint is formed from elastic body, marmem wire, skin and matrix. Said invention is simple in structure and is high in working efficiency.

The invention discloses a bionic underwater glider, which comprises a glider main body, a buoyancy changing device, an empennage and a gliding wing; the buoyancy changing device is arranged on the glider main body, and changes the net buoyancy of the bionic underwater glider by changing the displacement volume; The tail fin is arranged on the tail of the glider main body through a tail fin swing mechanism to realize the back and forth swing function of the tail fin; Rotate function. Also disclosed is a bionic underwater glider propulsion method. The present invention can effectively cooperate in different working modes, so as to realize mixed propulsion and enhance the ability of diverse observation tasks. It has high propulsion efficiency, strong maneuverability, flexibility of bionic propulsion and high efficiency of gliding propulsion.

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a modular, biomimetic, underwater vehicle capable of propulsion using one or more tail undulation methods, such as anguilliform or carangiform propulsion methods.

The invention provides a bionic robot fish provided with a rising module and a tail module, relating to the bionic robot fish used underwater and aiming at solving the defects of the existing bionic robot fishes that the rising speed is low; rising characteristics are indistinct and adjusting the tail fin movement-diameter is inconvenient, etc. The other end of a screw (11) is fixedly connected with a piston (4) through a screw end closure (3), the piston (4) is arranged in a cylinder (1), and one end of a cylinder end closure (6) is fixedly connected with the cylinder (1); a straight-spur cone gearwheel (38) is arranged on a central shaft (43) and two ends of a central shaft (43) are rotationally connected with two sides of a box body (39), and two sets of sliding mechanism assemblies (84) are respectively arranged on a first disk (22) and a second disk (44) through a first eccentric shaft (25) and a second eccentric shaft (41). The bionic robot fish provided by the invention has a better rising characteristic and better bionic effect and can easily realize the adjusting to the tail fin movement-diameter of the robot fish so as to lead the swaying of the fish body to be rare and the moving stability to be better.

An underwater propeller simulating hydrovane for the underwater self-propulsion vehicle is composed of a bionic hydrovane simulating the fin, a swing unit for said hydrovane, a rotating unit for said hydrovane, and a fixing unit of baseplate for fixing said swing unit and rotating unit to baseplate.

The invention discloses a ray pectoral fin-imitated piezoelectric coupling propulsive mechanism. The ray pectoral fin-imitated piezoelectric coupling propulsive mechanism comprises a crankshaft, guide rods, a swinging block, a piezoelectric compound fin, a fish body pedestal, a crankshaft support, a driving motor, a battery pack and a main control panel, wherein the crankshaft is arranged on the crankshaft support; the swinging block comprises a pin shaft and a swinging block support; the pin shaft is arranged on the swinging block support; the crankshaft support and the swinging block support are fixedly arranged on the fish body pedestal; one of the guide rods is arranged between one end of the swinging block and the crankshaft; the driving motor and the crankshaft are connected through a gear; the piezoelectric compound fin is arranged at the other end of the swinging block; the battery pack can provide a direct current power source; the main control panel is electrically connected with the piezoelectric compound fin; the crankshaft is a four-turn crankshaft; the guide rod is arranged on each turning shaft of the four-turn crankshaft. The ray pectoral fin-imitated piezoelectric coupling propulsive mechanism can reduce the structural size, the weight of the fish body, and can realize chordwise fluctuation propulsion.

The Variable Foil Machine harnesses fluid flow energy and propels fluids. A variable foil (120) with reversible camber is secured to a leading draft member (150) movable on a leading support (122) and to a trailing draft member (130) movable on a trailing support (136). The trailing draft member (130) is secured to a trailing guide (132) via a crank arm (148). Apparatus can be installed on the ground or on a pivoting base (138). In one embodiment, the leading draft member (150) is fixed while the trailing draft member (130) oscillates. In another embodiment, an oscillation amplitude offset between leading draft member (150) and trailing draft member (130) promotes cyclic translation of the variable foil (120). An energy converter (142) may be cooperatively coupled to produce energy or perform work. Selective combination of moving parts provides a versatile choice of modes of operation for power generation, work and communication.

The invention provides a propulsion system based on “thuniform” movement of a foil member to achieve desired directional movement of a vehicle such as an unmanned submarine type of vessel. A pair of foil members are mounted to the vehicle body for reciprocating oscillating movement towards and away from each other, creating forward movement due to the compression of a fluid medium between the foil members and the expulsion of the compressed fluid rearwardly of the foil members. Each foil member is mounted to a pivot shaft for limited rotational movement with respect to the vehicle body. Damping means are connected between each pivot shaft and its associated foil member so that during operation of the propulsion system damping torque will offset hydrodynamic loads imposed on the foil members by the fluid medium. The damping means will in turn control the pitch angle of the foil members during operation, meaning that a thrust is generated for rigid foil members when moving at zero forward speed. The propulsion system of the invention exhibits increased efficiency and thrust in comparison to other such propulsion systems. The foil members are mounted to the vehicle body in such a manner that the thrust vector thereof can be directed through a full 360 degrees relative to the vehicle, thereby achieving superb maneuverability when the vehicle is provided with sets of the thrusters suitable located thereon.

A bionic flat propulsion mechanism ship is composed of two units which are left-right symmetrical relative to the longitudinal axis of ship and respectively installed at left and right of hull bottom at ship tail. Each unit consists of fixed wall, rotary arm and its axle, and two paddles. When the paddles are rotating, a bionic Weist-Fogh effect is generated between paddle and wall for increasing its propulsion efficiency.

The cuttlefish imitation type mollush large diving depth underwater bio-robot includes battery, control computer, sinking and floating control device, movement control circuit, communication device and base body. Besides, it also includes monopulse propeller and fin controller. Said invention also provides their connection and mounting mode.

This invention provides a vessel system and methodology that can be used to promote growth of phytoplankton in the oceans. Unmanned self-controlled wave-powered vessels are equipped with storage units for dispensing a fertilizer, and with sensors to monitor ocean conditions and effects. Fleets of vessels move autonomously by on-board processing of GPS and directional information, piloting a path that is coordinated by a central processing unit. The vessels travel through a defined target area, creating a detailed survey of chemical and biological characteristics that affect grown. The data are processed in a computer model to identify precise locations and precise amounts of fertilizer that will produce the best results. Projected benefits of fertilizing plankton include sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere, and enhancing the marine food chain to improve the fish stock in and around the treated area.

The invention relates to an underwater hybrid-power robot platform which comprises a housing, a mainframe cabin and a motion control cabin. The outer contour of the housing is in shape of bionic fish,one end of the housing is connected with a bionic fish tail structure, and propellers are arranged on two sides of the housing. The side, close to the front end of the housing, of the mainframe cabinis connected with a camera, and an electronic compass and a controller are arranged in the mainframe cabin. A pitching gravity center adjusting mechanism is installed in the motion control cabin. Thepropellers, the electronic compass and the pitching gravity center adjusting mechanism are electrically connected with a battery cabin. The underwater hybrid-power robot platform adopts the hybrid-power driving design of the propellers and the bionic fish tail structure, and the operating capability of a robot in a complicated ocean current environment is greatly improved. The underwater hybrid-power robot platform can carry multiple types of detection devices, can meet complicated task demands, can performs operations such as water quality extraction, detection and photography, can sample and detect water at different depths through a water pumping cabin and has a wide application prospect.