OA-004
FASt Lab Robotic Fish Research
Measured real hydrodynamic drag on lab-built robotic fish hardware.
Contributed to research on robotic fish systems, experimental hardware, and fluid-structure interaction. This included water tunnel work with a hydrofoil mounted on a load cell to measure drag, plus CAD work for an adapter and fin used in water tunnel testing.
Role
Undergraduate research contributor
Organization
University of Florida · FASt Lab
Measuring drag in the water tunnel
I contributed to research on robotic fish systems and fluid-structure interaction. A big part of that was experimental: mounting a hydrofoil on a load cell in the water tunnel to directly measure drag, with the instrumentation, setup, and data collection done on real hardware.
CAD test hardware
To run the experiments I designed the adapter and fin used in the water tunnel, modeling the geometry so the test hardware would mount cleanly and support repeatable drag measurements.