Soft robotics
Jun 16, 2021
In this article, we propose a soft eel robot design using soft pneumatic actuators that mimic eel muscles. Four pairs of soft actuators are used to construct the eel robot body. Pulse signals with suitable shifting phases are utilized to control deli...
Scientific reports
May 28, 2021
Underwater robots are useful for exploring valuable resources and marine life. Traditional underwater robots use screw propellers, which may be harmful to marine life. In contrast, robots that incorporate the swimming principles, morphologies, and so...
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
May 26, 2021
The importance of the leading-edge sweep angle of propulsive surfaces used by unsteady swimming and flying animals has been an issue of debate for many years, spurring studies in biology, engineering, and robotics with mixed conclusions. In this work...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
May 20, 2021
While fish use continuous and flexible bodies to propel themselves, fish robots are often made from interconnected segments. How many segments do robots need to represent fish movements accurately? We propose a new method to automatically determine p...
Journal of sports sciences
May 9, 2021
Researchers have heralded the power of inertial sensors as a reliable swimmer-centric monitoring technology, however, regular uptake of this technology has not become common practice. Twenty-six elite swimmers participated in this study. An IMU (100H...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Apr 12, 2021
Fish robots have many possible applications in exploration, industry, research, and continue to increase in design complexity, control, and the behaviors they can complete. Maneuverability is an important metric of fish robot performance, with severa...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Apr 1, 2021
Fin kinematics is the key to thrust generation of oscillatory pectoral fins of manta rays. This could be one of the main reasons that fin designs of robotic manta rays are becoming more complex to simulate the fin kinematics more closely so as to gen...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Mar 5, 2021
Tunas are flexible, high-performance open ocean swimmers that operate at high frequencies to achieve high swimming speeds. Most fish-like robotic systems operate at low frequencies (≤3 Hz) resulting in low swim speeds (≤1.5 body lengths per second), ...
Soft robotics
Mar 2, 2021
Bioinspired soft robotics aims at reproducing the complex hierarchy and architecture of biological tissues within artificial systems to achieve the typical motility and adaptability of living organisms. The development of suitable fabrication approac...
Proceedings. Biological sciences
Feb 17, 2021
Fish routinely accelerate during locomotor manoeuvres, yet little is known about the dynamics of acceleration performance. Thunniform fish use their lunate caudal fin to generate lift-based thrust during steady swimming, but the lift is limited durin...