KenMankoff » robots http://kenmankoff.com Antarctica, My PhD, Life, Stuff, etc. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:04:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 BUBBLES And A Fish http://kenmankoff.com/2011/03/13/bubbles-and-a-fish http://kenmankoff.com/2011/03/13/bubbles-and-a-fish#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:58:38 +0000 Ken Mankoff http://kenmankoff.com/?p=4099 Bubbles is a small ROV built from a kit with a customized camera mount for looking up at ice from below and down at the bottom. Her construction was motivated by some underwater footage of bed load transport due to wave action.

BUBBLES is an acronym for some combination of the words Bubbles the Underwater Undersea Blue Bathymetric Basal Buoyant Little Liquid Exploration Submersible or Submarine.

Bubble was previously deployed in a hot-tub and in Younger Lagoon, Santa Cruz, CA, as test sites. Recently Bubbles went swimming under the ice-covered Silver Lake near Kirkwood, CA. Due to the late season, we could not walk on the ice and the shore-based deployment was complicated by the shallow waters. Nevertheless, she again proved to be liquid-worthy, and spent some time swimming in the shallow waters with some fish.



Bubbles Deployment

Bubbles heading under the ice. Photo by E. Lynne Harden

Bubbles deployment

Bubbles operations. Photo by E. Lynne Harden

Bubbles was built by Ken Mankoff and E. Lynne Harden.

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]]> http://kenmankoff.com/2011/02/22/wissard-introduction/feed 0 Mars Landing http://kenmankoff.com/2008/10/21/mars-landing http://kenmankoff.com/2008/10/21/mars-landing#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:59:41 +0000 Ken Mankoff http://kenmankoff.com/?p=739 An animation of how the next Mars Mission (MSL) will touch down. Note that the Mars Exploration Rovers are still going strong, a few days past their 90 day mission which began in late 2003 / early 2004

(video credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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