Intelligent carp robot

The flexible plastic carp swims in the pool of the laboratory. Triangular head, attached to electronic devices and microchip. Fish body is composed of three plastic joints left. The tail is made by a piece of plastic, soft. The fish swims along the rim of the lake, occasionally changing direction when encountering obstacles.

' It took us eight months to produce this carp ' - Nguyen Dang Phuc, a senior student in mechanical engineering, University of Technical Education Ho Chi Minh City, shared.

Manufacturing team and carp fish robot - Photo: Ngoc Truong.

Carp carp is the work of a group of four students in the same class: Dang Minh Nhat, Nguyen Dang Phuc, Pham Thanh Trung and Le Minh Thuan. The construction of the group's carp robot started in August 2010, with the summer days always "direct" at the school's open lab. It took the group more than a month to see just how much the carp was swimming, and it took nearly three months for the carp to 'bear' the water.

' Thoroughly calculate it, but when it is released into the water, it is absorbed', Thuan recalls. In the end, the robot fish also swim with silicon heat-insulating glue and all the circuit boards are covered with resin.

Carp robot is a type of biological simulation robot. Although this form of carp carp looks like an unimaginable fish like real carp, it has many smart features. ' Infrared sensors help fish avoid obstacles. Acceleration sensor helps fish keep balance when impacted by thrust. An electronic compass helps fish to navigate programmatically , 'Thanh Trung explained the salient features of robotic carp.

Camera attached to the ankle can transmit image signals to the computer when fish enters the water. Pressure sensors also allow users to determine the depth of fish swimming. In addition, robotic carp can operate on a pre-programmed program without the need for constant user intervention.

Now this fish can swim at 1 meter deep water at 1cm / sec. ' Robotic carp can handle tasks such as dike monitoring, identification of sources of water pollution, as well as use in empirical research on determination of underwater forces, currents or as a concern. High-tech toys , 'Minh Nhat said.

The field of manufacturing underwater robots is now quite new, the group of students said that online materials are also rare to guide in detail how to build robots. But ' because of the frustration of the fact that Ho Chi Minh City has so many seriously polluted canals' , so this group of four students boldly tried with this highly applicable topic, Minh Nhat added .