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Solar Boat Twente 2020
Will you help Solar Boat Twente to fly?
We are a team of dedicated and enthusiastic students at the University of Twente who are building the boat of the future! Solar Boat Twente promotes environmental awareness through the use of sustainable energy in the maritime sector.
This year the multidisciplinary team will focus on building a reliable, "flying" solar boat. As a team, we are entrepreneurial, interested in technology, innovative, environmentally aware, competitive and, where necessary, support each other to develop a reliable solar boat that can fly above the water. By pushing the boundaries of technological innovations together with our partners, we have a great challenge: designing and building the boat of tomorrow.
In 2020 we will participate in the Solar Sport One competition, the Dutch Championships in Akkrum and the World Championships in Monaco. As the third Solar Boat Twente team, we want to lay a technical foundation for future teams. That is why this year we mainly focus on the proper adjustment and optimization of last year's prototypes. The hydrofoils are a very special part of our boat. These ensure that our boat can "fly" above the water. By flying we reduce the resistance of the water so that we use less energy, or use our energy more efficiently!
This year we will make the wings and the associated struts themselves from carbon. We do this because we can produce our hydrofoils thinner and lighter this way. The wings will be made of solid carbon. To guarantee quality, we have to cut this layer by layer and put it in the mold. The struts will be made in a similar way, only they will get a foam core to save weight. This foam is self-swelling and will therefore perfectly fill the space in the strut. In this way the strut is very light and thin, but very strong and waterproof. In order to be able to pay a part of the wings and the associated struts, we need your help!
All the little bits help, for a small contribution you can help us make the boat fly! It would help us enormously if you would support us with a contribution on this crowdfunding platform so that we can fly over the finish during the races!
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RoboTeam Twente
Help us build a soccer team!
RoboTeam Twente is a student team that aims to innovate in robotics and artificial intelligence. We do this by developing soccer robots that we take to the annual RoboCup, the world championship for robot soccer. In 2017, the first year that we joined the tournament, we reached the 14th place. In 2018, the 7th place was obtained and last year, in Sydney, Australia, we reached the 5th place!
This year, we aim to reach the top 3 at the RoboCup, that will take place in Bordeaux, France. This enables us to show the innovations in robotics in The Netherlands, Twente and the University of Twente and Saxion University of Applied Sciences even better. However, the RoboCup is not only the world championship for robot soccer, but has a larger, common goal: “By the middle of the 21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a soccer game, complying with the official rules of FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup.“
RoboTeam Twente takes part in the Small Size League, that mainly focuses on hive-mind decision making: communication and decision making within the team in a dynamic environment. This technology can be used in logistics, for example self-driving cars or sorting systems, or in health care. It can also be applied for emergency response, where a quick and accurate coordination is essential. All those examples show that the technologies we are working on are useful for humans in making lives and work more save and efficient.
This year, the RoboCup is expanding to make a step toward the goal for 2050. The Small Size League teams will play with 11 robots, instead of the 8 robots in previous years. This means we have to build extra robots. And you can support us by contributing in the crowdfunding! Do you help us to get new bolts and nuts, a shooting mechanism or electronics for the extra robots?
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