Design Summary Analysis Final
In the article, “The RoboBee Flies Solo,” Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (2019) has stated that after decades worth of research, it has successfully developed technologies to create the lightest ever vehicle to maintain sustained untethered flight. The article stated that it has developed an extremely lightweight circuit and has integrated high-efficiency solar cells to tackle the trade-off between mass and power. The additional pair of wings and more efficient transmission due to changes in actuator and transmission ratio gave the vehicle the extra lift, enabling it to run on solar power alone. According to the Burrows (2019), the solar-powered RoboBee currently requires the strength of three earth suns to work, as demonstrated by simulation with halogen lights in a laboratory. This experiment clearly demonstrates the limits of solar power for the RoboBee and why developing an alternative approach to power the RoboBee is essential. ...