Past Projects

An overview of previous year's achievements

An Overview

Here you find what previous teams and students have achived during their time at ENSPIRE!

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    The first HSRW racing submarine. Rivershark 1 was propelled by a pair of counterheaving fins inspired by the wing-like tail of a sailfish.

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    The second HSRW submarine, Inia was designed to be an acceleration specialist. Propelled by a chain-driven counterheaving mechanism, Inia's low aspect ratio tails provided the high thrust required to accelerate over the first part of the racecourse.

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    The third HSRW submarine was designed primarily with manoeuvrability in mind. Taking inspiration from the knifefish, Trichitala was driven by three ribbon-like undulatory propulsors.

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    The fourth HSRW submarine was a complete rebuild of the first one. Only the hull remained of the original Rivershark. The propulsion this time was a pair of turtle or penguin-inspired flapping twisting foils.

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The Submarine Team

The team creates an entirely new submarine every year. Each year's project has a different propulsion system, based on a propulsion system found in nature. How about a submarine swimming like a dolphin? The only common denominator: Every submarine needs to be human powered. No combustion or electrical engines are allowed. The team also partakes in submarine races regularly.

The Racing Team

The first Rhine-Waal Racing team built the foundational framework for future developments of the race car. From drafting a prototype, to designing the packaging, bending and welding the tubing to create the frame, installing the batteries and dimensioning the tires and breaks. Similarly to the submarine team, this is a gigantic project. Even more so as the engine needs to be designed and built as well. A correspondingly big team with specialized groups is needed to work out every detail.

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Spoy Wiesel

Previously a test platform developed by the German navy, the navy surplus autonomous surface vessel SpoyWiesel was given to the University. The mission is to give it a new career as a research and development tool for autonomous shipping applications.

Robotics Club

The Robotics Club of Hochshule Rhein-Waal, Campus Kleve was founded in 2015. The Lab includes both Master and Bachelor students from various departments and academic backgrounds, who share a passion in the field of Robotics.


The research projects of the robotics lab focus on the development of necessary technologies, starting from AI Algorithms to special purpose sensors or actuators to enable the robots performance of servicing task such as welcoming guest, delivering food and drinks or shopping in the supermarket.

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Communication Team

Communicating ENSPIRE activities is at the core of the Communication Team. Anything that includes communicating with students outside of Supervisor E-mails goes hand in hand with this teams efforts:


Organizing the different teams' appearances at the Fresher's Market, communicating and helping organize ENSPIRE events like the Feuerzangenbowle and ENSPIRE day or designing and maintaining the website of ENSPIRE all fall under this teams responsibility.

Student Projects

Got interested ?

If you like the sound of the above projects, and want to get involved, then drop by the project webpage to find more information or speak to the teams directly.