A high speed, high resolution camera for analyzing ultrafast motions in natural and synthetic model systems.
Abstract
The field of microrobotics and bioinspired robotics is continually moving towards exploring and exploiting extremely high speed phenomena with complex spatial features. By leveraging multi-scale, multimaterialfabrication processes, our lab has developed new high-speed and impulsive robotic systems. Our analysis of the dynamics of such robots and physical models of biological organisms is currently limited tothe spatial resolution and frame-rate of our high-speed cameras. To address this, we propose a high-speedcamera with a six-fold improvement in performance over our current instrumentation. The proposed systemwould allow us to capture high-speed phenomena and provide us the ability to perform high-resolutionfluid flow visualization by way of Particle Image Velocimetry.This proposed system would immediately impact the ONR RoboBee project, the ONR BRC SEA-STARproject, the ARO Impulsive Systems MURI, and our DARPA SHRIMP projects. This high-speed camerawill also provide a portable solution enabling strengthened experimental analysis which can be sharedwith all of our collaborators, while also proving to be a valuable tool for use in engineering courses at theJohn A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Sep 11, 2020
- Source ID
- N000142012829
Entities
People
- Robert J Wood
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- President and Fellows of Harvard College
- United States Navy