The complete papers written by my partner George Knight and I are below
(George's is on the right and more focused on the control alogrithm I was assigned to catelog construction methods)
As part of the Boston University Bio-Morphable Roboitcs lab we are developing new propulsion technologies and methods, primerally for underwater use in soft robots.
During testing we realized that we could also use one of our developed methods (unpublished so I can't say much more) in air instead of water.
So we developed a test bed that could be precisely controlled and used to test this new technology.
Our initial prototype used hobby drone propellors but future iterations would be replaced by the novel propulsion method.
The complete papers written by my partner George Knight and I are below
(George's is on the right and more focused on the control alogrithm I was assigned to catelog construction methods)