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Sea Pollution Fought By Robotic Buoy
Posted on August 4, 2008 with 1569 views
Osaka University have engineered a sophisticated new robotic buoy which aims to minimise sea pollution. The robot aims to reduce oil spillages aboard oil tankers. The prototype, termed SOTAB (Spilled Oil Tracking Autonomous Buoy), is a 110Kg GPS-enabled robot which measures 2.7m in length and 27cm in diameter. The concept allows the robot to be dropped into the sea automatically when an oil spillage occurs. Unfortunately the robotic buoys will not be instilled for a further three years, as it will take that duration of time to develop them from the labs into productive use.
Naomi Kato, professor of Submersible Robotic Engineering in the department of Naval Architecture, developed the system and has described it as able to "conduct education and research on underwater robotics, biomechanics on aquatic animals and its application to engineering, computational hydrodynamics of viscous flow fields.
In layman's terms this essentially translates into the fact that the buoy can monitor the oil flow by day or night via four highly sensitive cameras designed to pick up on black shadows caused by oil leaks. The robot will stay submerged at 10metres, and during the night its lights will be turned on to offer 24 hour monitoring.
The buoy will record speed of the current, water temperature, wind direction and velocity which will be computed and humans will be informed of the extent of the leak and which direction and how fast the leak is spreading. Sounds like a great idea, and will definitely be put into good use in three years time. It's just a shame it has taken so long for such a product to be engineered.
- Anonymous says on 27th August 2008How do you call this machine??..
- lynly says on 21st August 2008Its good!
- lynly says on 21st August 2008Its good!
- i\'m the b says on 21st August 2008Great job kato.
- i\'m the b says on 21st August 2008Great job kato.
- bob says on 20th August 2008We might need 1 ov thoz 4 mah pool jk!
- kinjal says on 18th August 2008I wud juz lyk 2 thank d technology its do usefull to human beings but V shud not only depend on these we shud also try 2 save the resources 4 d future generations..
- Cano bugto says on 18th August 2008Amizing invention
- pretty_ain says on 16th August 2008Nice...! Great help! How much is that?hahaha
- Krishanu says on 11th August 2008Why is it only for sea pollution? Why not for air pollution also?
- apurve kad says on 10th August 2008Great help to save aquatic life
- nicely nd says on 10th August 2008Kainggit....
- jk says on 9th August 2008
- Anonymous says on 7th August 2008Your message here..
- asi jr. says on 5th August 2008Wala paba yan d2?
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