Oil Spill Clean Up Robot

A lot of work concerned by removing the oil from water there were many advanced tools for this task this paper presents a multi robot system that works on the surface of water to help cleaning up.

Oil spill clean up robot.

Consisting of a fleet of vehicles that may make cleaning up future oil spills both less expensive and. A new idea from the senseable city lab researchers in sa p s senseable city lab have created a prototype robot for a system they call seaswarm a fleet of vehicles that could make cleaning up future oil spills like the bp spill in the gulf of mexico both less expensive and more efficient than current skimming methods. Each robot consists of a head covered by a layer of. Mit researchers develop autonomous oil absorbing robot to clean up oil spills by darren.

The researchers estimate that a fleet of 5000 seaswarm. This cute little robot floats to oil spills and sucks up the oil inside the robot is a nanomaterial made from leaves that repels water and attracts oil. Oil spills oil remote sensing tracking oil spills oil spill response remote sensing. These robotic submarines and ocean gliders may be the best way to map out.

It works as a fleet or swarm of vehicles communicating their location through gps. Courtesy tejas sanjay kabra. The robot can hold up to 20 times its weight in oil. Article august.

One big challenge facing cleanup crews during an offshore oil spill such as 2010 s deepwater horizon disaster in the gulf of mexico is determining just how much oil is involved. Design of multi robot system for cleaning up marine oil spill. Most of the tools for containing the vast spill on the sea surface like skimming burning and using dispersants are low tech and have been in the oil spill toolbox mostly unchanged for.