Robot Fish Research

     In January 2021, I joined Olin's Robot Research Lab and became a researcher for the Robot Fish Project, which aims to design and build the technologies needed to create biomimetic autonomous undersea robots. During my first two years as part of the project, I conducted fabrication research and materials testing for the fish's fins.

     During the 2022-23 academic year, I researched the design of stall-resistant pectoral fins and created a testing framework for creating, evaluating, and optimizing pectoral fin shapes. I designed a procedure for quickly generating generations of pectoral fin morphologies in CAD, fabricating and testing them, and inputting the results into a genetic algorithm to return a new generation of fins.

     This year, I am exploring simulation tools for modeling the locomotion of the robotic fish, in order to achieve higher-fidelity motion on our physical robot.