EngineeringTV has two tasty interviews with Boston Engineering about their tuna-like AUV, GhostSwimmer. GhostSwimmer is a project sponsored to by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to create an underwater robot that mimics the swimming motion of fish. The smoothness of motion of this vehicle is amazing. GhostSimmer weighs about 40 lbs and can carry up to a 10lb payload. The vehicle is fully functional is “user ready”. GhostSwimmer has 7 degrees of freedom in the tail, and each pectoral fin has 2 degrees of freedom. The vehicle was developed with $100k USD of STTR grants.


You can see the two interviews below. Sorry about the horrible “auto play” issue.