Title of Document: DESIGN OF COMPLIANCE ASSISTED GAITS FOR A QUADRUPEDAL AMPHIBIOUS ROBOT Andrew Richard Vogel, M.S., 2013 Directed By: Professor Satyandra K. Gupta Department of Mechanical Engineering The goal of this thesis was to develop an amphibious legged quadrupedal robot and associated gaits. Gaits of interest included walking, swimming, and smoothly transitioning between the two. Compl...

The ability to execute true distributed and collaborative planning for amphibious operations, including ship-to-objective maneuver, selected intelligence and meteorological functions, and plan rehearsal is critical in the fast moving littoral/expeditionary warfare area. As part of an ongoing series of newly developed Tactical Decision Aids (TDA) for the Global Command and Control System – Marit...

With the goal of supporting close-range observation tasks of a spherical amphibious robot, such as ecological observations and intelligent surveillance, a moving target detection and tracking system was designed and implemented in this study. Given the restrictions presented by the amphibious environment and the small-sized spherical amphibious robot, an industrial camera and vision algorithms ...

A facile and green approach for the synthesis of amphibious fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) from natural polysaccharide is reported. Light-emitting polymer nanocomposites with excellent optical performance can be easily prepared by incorporation of the amphibious CDs into the polymer matrix.

Abstract The European Union (EU) and Taiwan (officially the Republic of China) are both non-conventional polities in international relations study diplomacy. On one hand, EU is a ‘unique economic political union between 27 countries’. other able to concurrently carry out two distinct forms foreign relations. First, diplomacy as sovereign country with states that it maintains formal diplomatic S...

This paper presents the design calculations, implementations, and multi-engineering based computational constructions of an unmanned amphibious vehicle (UAmV) which efficiently travels underwater to detect collect deep-sea minerals for investigations, as well creative usage purposes. The UAmV is expected operate at a 300 m depth from water surface. deployed above surface near approximate target...

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istorically, the Navy’s mine countermeasures ships and helicopters were designed for Cold War applications, which emphasized clearance of our own ports and gave amphibious assault low priority. Today’s naval mission requires regional contingency operations where friendly forces must be capable of projecting power ashore. For example, the attempted assault of Kuwait during Desert Storm by the U....

Insects are the most diverse form of life on the planet, dominating both terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems, yet no species has a life stage able to breath, feed, and develop either continually submerged or without access to water. Such truly amphibious insects are unrecorded. In mountain streams across the Hawaiian Islands, some caterpillars in the endemic moth genus Hyposmocoma are truly a...