{"id":600,"date":"2016-12-11T16:05:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T16:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/fsiblog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2016-12-11T16:05:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T16:05:57","slug":"royal-visit-to-towing-tank-and-fsi-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/2016\/12\/11\/royal-visit-to-towing-tank-and-fsi-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Visit to Towing Tank and FSI Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of a recent visit to the University of Southampton the Duke of Kent<\/a> and guests toured\u00a0our maritime robotics and performance sports labs Building 176 -meeting\u00a0Dr Joe Banks, Agata Tomaszewska, DrJon Downes and Sophia Schillae.
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Looking out of the PSEL to avoid the secret stuff..<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The workings of Delphin2 explained<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nJames Bowker and Cath Hollyhead used the wavemakers to demonstrate Fleur’s impressive wave crawling ability- just using wave energy to propel herself into and with the waves.
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Fleur in Action<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nCommissioning of the tank instrumentation continues apace with recent tests\u00a0on LDV, operation\u00a0of the new rolling bridge\u00a0as well as regular use of the Qualisys optical motion capture system.\u00a0 The InnovateUK project led by PlanetOcean\u00a0associated with the design of an ASV launchable AUV\u00a0 ecoSUB<\/a> has reached an important milestone with the recent vehicle’s\u00a0\u00a0official launch at the NOC.\u00a0 Soon after a prototype was being tested\u00a0in\u00a0the towing tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of a recent visit to the University of Southampton the Duke of Kent and guests toured\u00a0our maritime robotics and performance sports labs Building 176 -meeting\u00a0Dr Joe Banks, Agata Tomaszewska, DrJon Downes and Sophia Schillae.   James Bowker and Cath Hollyhead used the wavemakers to demonstrate Fleur’s impressive wave crawling ability- just using wave … Continue reading Royal Visit to Towing Tank and FSI Labs<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4066,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}