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Smart materials
Thermally activated coiled structures made of cheap polymers that shows ground breaking performances:
- Energy density 4-5 kJ/kg
Activities:
- Manufacturing procedure
- Development of a custom experimental setup
- Experimental characterization
High altitude wind energy
Objectives:
- Investigating offshore HAWE systems
Activities:
- Modeling of floating platform HAWE
- Investigates energy extraction
- Define design procedures for the float
- Validation optimization and control strategies
Energy Harvesting
- Innovative transducers based on Dielectric Elastomers for Wave Energy Harvesting.
- Coupled hydrodynamic-electro-hyperelastic models
- New optimized materials for energy harvesting
- Optimal Control of DE generators
- Experimental testing of Poly-WEC
Mechatronic systems
Snake Robot with variable impedance series-elastic actuation to improve locomotion efficiency.
In collaboration with Centro Gustavo Stefanini
Granted by: Finmeccanica
Activities:
- Study of the actuation/locomotion architecture
- Design and development of a test bench prototype