Conclusion

In conclusion, the design proposed here could potentially overcome submarine 's propeller problems which could perform under low flow conditions, in confined spaces, near the surface and in unsteady flow. Turtle's method of propulsion system, which is through it's fins can overcome all this challenges making a more efficient submarine design.

For recommendation of excellent project, the design can be drawn out using Solid Work. Once the design in Solid Work has been done, it can goes through ANSYS analysis and CFD to see how the submarine with turtle's fins as propulsion system operate under fluid.

Reflection

Alvin Diong Wern Xiong

The creation of blog allowed me to learn so much about nature and inspire me to use them as solutions. Nature appear to provide more solution for engineering design challenges. Besides, the fins of turtle, I also discover that when the turtle are in upside down position, it uses it's neck to make it go back to it's original position which can be applied for further research in future for the application of in robot inspection. In addition, I also update the 'Novel Industry application suggestion'  by 'describes rational behind design'. Finally, I write down the conclusion and suggest 'future recommendation' for this project improvement.

Azzam Syafiq bin Samsuddin

By adopting a pet tortoise for this module and creating this blog, I had learned so much about how engineers use inspiration from the nature to solve engineering challenges. I am tasked with taking care of the pet for the whole duration of the semester, and I learn more to respect the abilities of my pet. They can move underwater with good agility and gracefulness. They can swim without exerting much effort using their efficient fins. This can certainly be adopted for underwater vehicles for increased maneuverability in underwater. From this whole project, I am more interested in looking to nature in solving engineering challenges, as they are usually more environmentally-friendly and time-proven.

Fadhli Hazim bin Abu Bakar

Creating the blog with the whole team throughout the semester opened my eyes to the amazing possibility in the field of biomimicry. Many real world problems could be solve by fully understanding the natural world around us. Adopting the turtles for the purpose of studying them really helped us in understanding how they perform certain tasks much better, and this contributes in adopting some features that is applicable. We were also able to come up with a novel design for a one man submarine for sea exploration purposes. We believe that the design can help solve current problems one man submarines and be an inspiration for other such designs.

Muhammad Akmal bin Zulkifli

Throughout the study I realize that nature can inspire a lot of amazing and unbelievable solution to the engineering challenges. By studying about the turtles I learn that this special creature possessed certain characteristics and function which can inspire us human in many aspects especially in the underwater movement which covered in the novel design article before. I sincerely hope that we can investigate more in terms of nature strategies and how they work so that we can solve problems arise in this world with better solution, inspired by nature.

Wandeh Elwon

The creation of this blog made me realize that there's a lot of biology based engineering solution available out there. For this project, we selected tortoise as our adopted pet and using the tortoise leg movement mechanism we decided to apply this concept into the submarine design. this idea doesnt stop here as there are many others potential concept from others biologocal organism that havent been investigate yet.