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The Effects of Fluidic Loading on Underwater Contact Sensing with Robotic Fins and Beams.

IEEE transactions on haptics Oct 1, 2015
As robots become more involved in underwater operations, understanding underwater contact sensing with compliant systems is fundamental to engineering useful haptic interfaces and vehicles. Despite knowledge of contact sensation in air, little is kno...
Humans Animals Robotics Computer Simulation Biomechanical Phenomena Animal Fins Models, Biological Transducers Equipment Design
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Predicting propulsive forces using distributed sensors in a compliant, high DOF, robotic fin.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics May 18, 2015
Engineered robotic fins have adapted principles of propulsion from bony-finned fish, using spatially-varying compliance and complex kinematics to produce and control the fin's propulsive force through time. While methods of force production are well ...
Animal Fins Elastic Modulus Swimming Stress, Mechanical Equipment Failure Analysis Transducers Equipment Design Biomimetics Robotics Animals
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Mechatronic design and locomotion control of a robotic thunniform swimmer for fast cruising.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Mar 30, 2015
This paper presents mechatronic design and locomotion control of a biomimetic robotic fish that swims using thunniform kinematics for fast cruising. Propulsion of the robotic fish is realized with a parallel four-bar propulsive mechanism that deliver...
Biological Clocks Micro-Electrical-Mechanical Systems Animal Fins Fishes Computer-Aided Design Feedback, Physiological Feedback Swimming Ships Biomimetics Robotics Central Pattern Generators Equipment Failure Analysis Animals Computer Simulation Equipment Design Models, Biological
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Performance of synchronized fins in biomimetic propulsion.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Mar 30, 2015
By using a two-dimensional model of ray fins, we numerically investigate the thrust generation by closely-coupled fins with an immersed boundary approach. The concentration is on the performance enhancement through fin-fin interactions and the underl...
Computer Simulation Animals Robotics Models, Biological Feedback, Physiological Biological Clocks Rheology Fishes Animal Fins Swimming Biomimetics
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Phototactic guidance of a tissue-engineered soft-robotic ray.

Science (New York, N.Y.) Jul 8, 2016
Inspired by the relatively simple morphological blueprint provided by batoid fish such as stingrays and skates, we created a biohybrid system that enables an artificial animal--a tissue-engineered ray--to swim and phototactically follow a light cue. ...
Cues Swimming Biomechanical Phenomena Animal Fins Skates, Fish Animals Robotics Tissue Engineering Muscle, Skeletal Light Optogenetics
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