Rotor history
Previous Versions
Prototype collection 2012–2017 – from the first sketches to version 4.
Version 4
Final prototype of the start-up phase
Video
Tests on Lake Starnberg (2015)
The final prototype is launched from a boat and towed through the lake to test it at defined speeds – and recovered afterwards.
Project
Production and Technology Management, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg
Version 3
Tube cage design
Version 3
Version 3 without second swimmer
Version 3 with double rotor module
Video
Test run, November 2014
The prototype in a fast-flowing channel: view from above onto the turning rotor and measurement of the generated power.
Version 2
Second prototype
Project MOTAU
Industrial Design, TUM
Video
Boat-shaped prototype in the water
Test of the boat-shaped design developed in the Industrial Design project MOTAU at TUM.
Version 1
The first prototype (2012)
Video
Mock-up in the TUM flume (2012)
Before the first prototype, simple mock-ups made of a tube and wooden blades were tested in the flume of the TUM Hydromechanics Laboratory.