Data repository associated with the manuscript "Field testing of biohybrid robotic jellyfish to demonstrate enhanced swimming speeds"
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Biohybrid robotic designs incorporating live animals and self-contained microelectronic systems can leverage the animals’ own metabolism to reduce power constraints and act as natural chassis and actuators with damage tolerance. Previous work has shown that a biohybrid robotic jellyfish can exhibit enhanced speeds up to 2.8 times its baseline behavior in laboratory environments, but it remained unknown if the results could be applied to a natural, dynamic ocean environment. Deploying this system in coastal waters of Massachusetts, we show comparable results to prior laboratory work, with enhancement factors up to 2.3 times the baseline speed, or absolute swimming speeds up to 6.6 ± 0.3 cm/s. These experimental swimming speeds can be predicted using a theoretical model with morphological and time-dependent input parameters obtained from field experiment videos. With future work to increase maneuverability and incorporate sensors such as pH and salinity, biohybrid robotic jellyfish can achieve the potential to track environmental changes in future applications for ocean monitoring.
Description
Type of resource | software, multimedia |
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Date created | August 2019 - 2020 |
Creators/Contributors
Author | Xu, Nicole W | |
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Author | Townsend, James P | |
Author | Costello, John H | |
Author | Colin, Sean P | |
Author | Gemmell, Bradford J | |
Principal investigator | Dabiri, John O |
Subjects
Subject | jellyfish |
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Subject | biohybrid robot |
Subject | swimming speed |
Subject | ocean monitoring |
Genre | Dataset |
Bibliographic information
Related Publication | N. W. Xu, J. P. Townsend, J. H. Costello, S. P. Colin, B. J. Gemmell, J. O. Dabiri. (2020). Field testing of biohybrid robotic jellyfish to demonstrate enhanced swimming speeds. Biomimetics, 5(4), 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics5040064 |
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Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/mh950tt5866 |
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Preferred citation
- Preferred Citation
- Xu, Nicole W and Townsend, James P and Costello, John H and Colin, Sean P and Gemmell, Bradford J and Dabiri, John O. (2020). Data repository associated with the manuscript "Field testing of biohybrid robotic jellyfish to demonstrate enhanced swimming speeds". Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/mh950tt5866
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- nicolexu@alumni.stanford.edu
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