Dr. Ridhi Bansal

Robotics & Automation Specialist

Simulation Developer

Electro Mechanical Specialist

Technical Consultant

Mechanical Engineer

Product Design

Innovation Enthusiast

Dr. Ridhi Bansal

Robotics & Automation Specialist

Simulation Developer

Electro Mechanical Specialist

Technical Consultant

Mechanical Engineer

Product Design

Innovation Enthusiast

Bristol Robotics Laboratory

  • Position: Robotics Research Engineer, Energy Harvesting
  • Location: Bristol
  • From: Jul 2021
  • To: May 2022
The project aimed to harvest energy from the environment and convert it to useful energy. This technology can help to build soft robots which can use energy from the environment, providing unlimited battery life. This research holds the potential to revolutionize the areas of autonomous robots, environmental monitoring systems, and wearable healthcare sensors. We get extensive background research in existing energy harvesting techniques and developed a model inspired by the Kelvin Water drop experiment to generate electricity. The electricity was generated by simply using water, metal buckets, and wires, which showed the potential to extract energy from the environment and power devices. The project involved working with electronics, DEAs, data acquisition devices, Arduino, and MATLAB. A research paper would soon be published for this research.