By Evan Ackerman -
Multimodal robots are robots that are designed to be able to get around on different types of terrain. For the purposes of this article, we’re going to pretend that the word “terrain” doesn’t explicitly refer to land, because we’ll be looking at some concepts for robots that can handle both aerial and aquatic environments using flapping wings and water jets.
The first paper we’ll be taking a look at is “A Novel Degree of Freedom in Flapping Wings Shows Promise for a Dual Aerial/Aquatic Vehicle Propulsor,” by Jacob S. Izraelevitz and Michael S. Triantafyllou, from MIT.
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Ref: A Novel Degree of Freedom in Flapping Wings Shows Promise for a Dual Aerial/Aquatic Vehicle Propulsor. arXiv (December 2014) | http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.3843
A Water Jet Thruster for an Aquatic Micro Air Vehicle. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (May 2015 | https://workspace.imperial.ac.uk/aerialrobotics/Public/AquaMAV_Thruster.pdf
