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Re: NY aqueduct tunnel inspector bot
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:04:29 GMT
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Chris,
Actually it has been done! The University of Rhode Island Oceanography
Undergraduate/Graduate Program entry to the 2000 International Autonomous
Underwater Vehicle Competion (AUVISI -
http://www.auvsi.org/competitions/water.cfm) won the competition with a
submersible whos engine was a LEGO RCX block! Yes they won the competition
with the LEGO Block.
If you are interested in their entry you can see the journal papers written
by them and the other entries here at
http://www.auvsi.org/competitions/2000/papers.cfm
A URI news article about it can be found here
http://advance.uri.edu/pacer/september2000/story5.htm
Ed
In lugnet.robotics, xenon@3dnature.com writes:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/12/science/12AQUE.html
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> I found this article talking about remote robotic submersible tunnel
> inspection very interesting. I recall a Mindstorm tunnel-roof inspector
> bot that was part of my inspiration to build my own remote sensing bots,
> such as the LIDARStation:
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> http://www.arcticus.com/Lego
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> As a diver myself, I've often speculated about building submersible
> robots, but I don't think Mindstorms are the proper medium. Too difficult
> to seal the electronics.
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> Building bouyancy-control mechanisms would be cool. Not sure how well
> IR data transmission would work under water. Maybe short distances in
> shallow water, but I bet you couldn't transmit through the air-water
> interface at the surface. Your IR tower would itself probably have to
> be submerged.
>
> Chris - Xenon
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