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Design considerations for an underwater soft-robot inspired from marine invertebrates.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Oct 29, 2015
This article serves as an overview of the unique challenges and opportunities made possible by a soft, jellyfish inspired, underwater robot. We include a description of internal pressure modeling as it relates to propulsive performance, leading to a ...
Computer-Aided Design Robotics Equipment Design Models, Biological Ships Computer Simulation Animals Elastic Modulus Scyphozoa Biomimetics Swimming Sense Organs Equipment Failure Analysis
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Analytical model and stability analysis of the leading edge spar of a passively morphing ornithopter wing.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Oct 26, 2015
This paper presents the stability analysis of the leading edge spar of a flapping wing unmanned air vehicle with a compliant spine inserted in it. The compliant spine is a mechanism that was designed to be flexible during the upstroke and stiff durin...
Animals Computer-Aided Design Birds Rheology Equipment Failure Analysis Morphogenesis Flight, Animal Robotics Wings, Animal Elastic Modulus Equipment Design Aircraft Models, Biological
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Distributed flow sensing for closed-loop speed control of a flexible fish robot.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Oct 23, 2015
Flexibility plays an important role in fish behavior by enabling high maneuverability for predator avoidance and swimming in turbulent flow. This paper presents a novel flexible fish robot equipped with distributed pressure sensors for flow sensing. ...
Biological Clocks Animals Equipment Failure Analysis Computer-Aided Design Transducers Robotics Equipment Design Feedback, Physiological Fishes Elastic Modulus Biomimetics Rheology Swimming
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Effects of non-uniform stiffness on the swimming performance of a passively-flexing, fish-like foil model.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Oct 8, 2015
Simple mechanical models emulating fish have been used recently to enable targeted study of individual factors contributing to swimming locomotion without the confounding complexity of the whole fish body. Yet, unlike these uniform models, the fish b...
Computer Simulation Animals Robotics Models, Biological Swimming Stress, Mechanical Fishes Viscosity Shear Strength Elastic Modulus Biomimetics Animal Fins Rheology
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A biomimetic underwater vehicle actuated by waves with ionic polymer-metal composite soft sensors.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Sep 28, 2015
The ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) is a soft material based actuator and sensor and has a promising potential in underwater application. This paper describes a hybrid biomimetic underwater vehicle that uses IPMCs as sensors. Propelled by the en...
Rheology Hydrodynamics Water Movements Computer-Aided Design Manufactured Materials Equipment Failure Analysis Transducers Metals Motion Hardness Elastic Modulus Robotics Ships Electric Power Supplies Energy Transfer Equipment Design Biomimetics Polymers Ions
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Effect of bladder wall thickness on miniature pneumatic artificial muscle performance.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Sep 28, 2015
Pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) are actuators known for their high power to weight ratio, natural compliance and light weight. Due to these advantages, PAMs have been used for orthotic devices and robotic limbs. Small scale PAMs have the same adv...
Equipment Failure Analysis Elastic Modulus Miniaturization Elastomers Stress, Mechanical Pressure Muscle Contraction Equipment Design Models, Biological Computer Simulation Biomimetics Computer-Aided Design Artificial Organs Muscle, Skeletal Robotics
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Modelling cephalopod-inspired pulsed-jet locomotion for underwater soft robots.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Sep 28, 2015
Cephalopods (i.e., octopuses and squids) are being looked upon as a source of inspiration for the development of unmanned underwater vehicles. One kind of cephalopod-inspired soft-bodied vehicle developed by the authors entails a hollow, elastic shel...
Computer Simulation Animals Computer-Aided Design Robotics Equipment Design Models, Biological Ships Elastic Modulus Biomimetics Animal Shells Rheology Cephalopoda Swimming Equipment Failure Analysis
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3D printing antagonistic systems of artificial muscle using projection stereolithography.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Sep 9, 2015
The detailed mechanical design of a digital mask projection stereolithgraphy system is described for the 3D printing of soft actuators. A commercially available, photopolymerizable elastomeric material is identified and characterized in its liquid an...
Muscle, Skeletal Photography Printing, Three-Dimensional Equipment Failure Analysis Robotics Humans Biomimetics Elastic Modulus Equipment Design Animals Artificial Organs Elastomers Stress, Mechanical Biomimetic Materials
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Texture recognition and localization in amorphous robotic skin.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Sep 9, 2015
We present a soft robotic skin that can recognize and localize texture using a distributed set of sensors and computational elements that are inspired by the Pacinian corpuscle, the fast adapting, uniformly spaced mechanoreceptor with a wide receptiv...
Pacinian Corpuscles Skin, Artificial Pressure Equipment Failure Analysis Skin Physiological Phenomena Machine Learning Hardness Vibration Animals Touch Robotics Transducers Equipment Design Elastic Modulus Humans Biomimetics Mechanotransduction, Cellular
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Anthropomorphic finger antagonistically actuated by SMA plates.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Aug 20, 2015
Most robotic applications that contain shape memory alloy (SMA) actuators use the SMA in a linear or spring shape. In contrast, a novel robotic finger was designed in this paper using SMA plates that were thermomechanically trained to take the shape ...
Alloys Equipment Failure Analysis Biomimetics Transducers Humans Stress, Mechanical Elastic Modulus Muscle, Skeletal Fingers Robotics Muscle Contraction Equipment Design Hot Temperature
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