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The MIT research team developed a robot capable of repeated experiments 100,000 times a year so that they can observe the experimental results.
One of the phenomena requiring repeated observation is Vortex-Induced Vibration (VIV). This kind of disturbance is important when designing ships that sail more smoothly in places like water. To do this, you have to repeatedly observe the boat moving on the water. A similar experiment is conducted when trying to reduce the air resistance of the car body.
An experimental robot called ITT (Intelligent Tow Tank), created by the MIT research team, plays a role in repeating it until results are obtained, such as observing the results and changing settings to obtain different information, as well as the physical task of pulling something from the water. According to a dissertation published in Science Robotics, ITT has already completed 100,000 experiments and an experiment conducted by doctoral students every two weeks while in school.
What was more difficult than the design of the robot body was the logic of the subsequent execution part of observing and understanding the liquid surface stream to obtain results. Usually humans observe each run, set parameters that change randomly, and decide what to do next. By replacing these mechanical repetitive tasks with robots, humans are trying to focus on high-level conceptual studies.
The research team says that it will lead to a paradigm shift in research involving experiments, and that robots, computers, and humans will cooperate to accelerate discovery and quickly and effectively find large parameters that were unreasonable until now. Related information can be found here .
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