Created polar robot Rover that is powered only by the wind

Beijing University of aviation and Astronautics (China) created a prototype Autonomous robot for the study of the effects of global climate change in Antarctica. At first, the robot as a robot, he can overcome obstacles up to half a meter, the design of a traditional chassis, but the power source — it is something!





The car was equipped with a wind turbine in which vertikalna the axis of rotation (horizontal center of gravity would have been unacceptably high), it was developed by the U.S. company Urban Green Energy. The height of the wind turbine — 1.2 m (standard version — 1.3 m) nominal power 200 W (at wind of 12 m/s and above). The total mass of Polar Rover was 300 kg, which means not very much power. It would seem that this is bad, but remember that the Mars Curiosity Rover, which is three times heavier, costs 125 watts of peak power and gets its power not more than 2.5 kWh per day.



In addition to the smaller height fiberglass turbine and its relatively modest weight (40 kg), she is also very compact: the width is only 0.8 m, sweeping area of 0.84 m2.

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