Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 02, 2018 - June 05, 2018
In this study, a small glider type underwater robot for environmental surveying is being developed. It is expected that the introduction of the glider system will extend the survey range of the robot by several folds. The authors are studying gliding experiments by using a simplified model composed of a flat plate wing and a weight connected to it. Stable long distance gliding was achieved using the simplified model, but verification of the mathematical model using simulations is difficult due to the significant number of parameters that cannot be neglected and the incompleteness of the wing characteristics. This paper describes the current state of the simulation as well as results of stable gliding of the model flat plate wing.
