SKI-E12 / Engineering / Underwater robotics
Use bio-inspired flow to collect microplastics with less clogging.
A manta-ray-inspired underwater ROV concept for microplastic collection, environmental sensing and marine monitoring.
01 / THE CHALLENGE
Fine-particle filtration usually trades capture for continuity.
Conventional filters can clog rapidly in mixed marine environments. The project investigates whether vortex-controlled flow and manta-ray-inspired feeding structures can sustain transport while separating microplastic particles.
02 / THE SYSTEM
Locomotion, flow and filtration designed as one organism-like system.
The ROV combines a manta-inspired body and underwater platform with a vortex-driven micro-scale filtration path, environmental sensing and data acquisition for pollution mapping.
03 / SYSTEM LOGIC
From requirement
to controlled output.
The project is organised as an explicit operating sequence rather than a collection of disconnected features.
CAPABILITIES / WORK SCOPE
What the system contains.
- 01Manta-ray-inspired underwater platform
- 02Vortex-driven filtration mechanism
- 03Microplastic collection pathway
- 04Reduced-clogging design intent
- 05Marine-monitoring sensors
- 06Environmental data acquisition
- 07Pollution-mapping workflow
- 08Bio-inspired robotics architecture
04 / OUTCOME