An overview
Here
you find what previous teams and students have achived during their time at ENSPIRE!
The first HSRW racing submarine. Rivershark 1 was propelled by a pair of counterheaving fins inspired by the wing-like tail of a sailfish.
The second HSRW submarine, Inia was designed to be an acceleration specialist. Propelled by a chain-driven counterheaving mechanism, Inia's low aspect ratio tails provided the high thrust required to accelerate over the first part of the racecourse.
The third HSRW submarine was designed primarily with manoeuvrability in mind. Taking inspiration from the knifefish, Trichitala was driven by three ribbon-like undulatory propulsors.
The fourth HSRW submarine was a complete rebuild of the first one. Only the hull remained of the original Rivershark. The propulsion this time was a pair of turtle or penguin-inspired flapping twisting foils.
The team creates an entirely new submarine every year. Each year's project has a different propulsion system, based on a propulsion system found in nature. How about a submarine swimming like a dolphin? The only common denominator: Every submarine needs to be human powered. No combustion or electrical engines are allowed. The team also partakes in submarine races regularly. How would you like to be a part of a submarine racing team?
Here you can see the different approaches the team has taken to creating a human powered submarine so far.
The system test
Previously a test platform developed by the German navy, the navy surplus autonomous surface vessel SpoyWiesel was given to the University. The mission is to give it a new career as a research and development tool for autonomous shipping applications.
Short-term plan: Get her rebuilt and launched into the Spoy where she can start learning to navigate autonomously in a safe and familiar environment.
Medium-term plan: She’ll be out dodging tugs and barges on the Rhine
Long-term plan: Building a survey vessel that can find whales and dolphins in the North Sea.
First things first, though. We need to get her rebuilt and back in the water. Who’s with us?
Baxter Research Robot is a two-arm collaborative robot that combines a number of unique technologies designed to allow deployment without some of the traditional safeguard.
We have developed Waale to talk and answer simple questions. We also connect it with lab facilities and others in our Internet of Things project, thus we can give commands to Waale in order to turn on/off the light, ask Turtle Bot delivering the food, or tell Baxter to grab and give the drinks to our guests.
Ampere is a mobile manipulator robot based on the Summit-XL mobile robot platform. It has holonomic drive for indoor navigation and skid steering for outdoor. It is equipped with UR5 arm from universal robot and two fingered adaptive grippers. For the navigation and manipulation task, the robot uses 2D laser scanner and stereo camera.
We have applied SLAM algorithms to map an artificial maze, deliver drinks and food to guest, as well as follow humans.
The Robotics Club of Hochshule Rhein-Waal, Campus Kleve was founded in 2015. The Lab includes both Master and Bachelor students from various departments and academic backgrounds, who share a passion in the field of Robotics.
The research projects of the robotics lab focus on the development of necessary technologies, starting from AI Algorithms to special purpose sensors or actuators to enable the robots performance of servicing task such as welcoming guest, delivering food and drinks or shopping in the supermarket.
A student project using Deeplearning model to recognize Human faces as well as Human Facial Expressions
Field robot is developed as a solution to tackle the challenges of autonomously controlling the vehicle in a field and automatically track and eliminate undesirable plants species (i.e: weed). This robot was built completely from scratch by our team members.
Mini Mars Rovers were designed to participate in the Matlab Competition: Mission on Mars. The robots must navigate the area, recognize the objects, and avoid obstacles. These robots are completely build from scratch based on the open-source blue print design from Mathworks.
A student project in the past, which was developed for an autonomous take off and landing system for conventional drone. The drone was modified to have a landing gear so that it would land in the upright position always.
We have developed Waale to talk and answer simple questions. We also connect it with lab facilities and others in our Internet of Things project, thus we can give commands to Waale in order to turn on/off the light, ask Turtle Bot delivering the food, or tell Baxter to grab and give the drinks to our guests.
One day to introduce every Team to all interested students. Planning to become a part of a team but unsure where to start? On the ENSPIRE day the teams gather to answer everyone's questions in person. Simply join the event and ask away.
By now tradition at hsrw, the Feuerzangenbowle is a yearly viewing of the movie with the same name. Acting both as a get together and a sponsoring event for ENSPIRE
Communicating ENSPIRE activities is at the core of the Communication Team. Anything that includes communicating with students outside of Supervisor E-mails goes hand in hand with this teams efforts:
Organizing the different teams' appearances at the Fresher's Market, communicating and helping organize ENSPIRE events like the Feuerzangenbowle and ENSPIRE day or designing and maintaining the website of ENSPIRE all fall under this teams responsibility.
If you like the sound of the above projects, and want to get involved, then drop by the project webpage to find more information or speak to the teams directly.