AIMC Topic: Swimming

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Fish-inspired robots: design, sensing, actuation, and autonomy--a review of research.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Underwater robot designs inspired by the behavior, physiology, and anatomy of fishes can provide enhanced maneuverability, stealth, and energy efficiency. Over the last two decades, robotics researchers have developed and reported a large variety of ...

Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots.

Nature materials
Microorganisms move in challenging environments by periodic changes in body shape. In contrast, current artificial microrobots cannot actively deform, exhibiting at best passive bending under external fields. Here, by taking advantage of the wireless...

Hydrodynamics of a robotic fish tail: effects of the caudal peduncle, fin ray motions and the flow speed.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Recent advances in understanding fish locomotion with robotic devices have included the use of biomimetic flapping based and fin undulatory locomotion based robots, treating two locomotions separately from each other. However, in most fish species, p...

RoboFish: increased acceptance of interactive robotic fish with realistic eyes and natural motion patterns by live Trinidadian guppies.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
In recent years, simple biomimetic robots have been increasingly used in biological studies to investigate social behavior, for example collective movement. Nevertheless, a big challenge in developing biomimetic robots is the acceptance of the roboti...

Evolutionary multiobjective design of a flexible caudal fin for robotic fish.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Robotic fish accomplish swimming by deforming their bodies or other fin-like appendages. As an emerging class of embedded computing system, robotic fish are anticipated to play an important role in environmental monitoring, inspection of underwater s...

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

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
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 ...

Distributed flow sensing for closed-loop speed control of a flexible fish robot.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
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. ...

Effects of non-uniform stiffness on the swimming performance of a passively-flexing, fish-like foil model.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
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...

Modelling cephalopod-inspired pulsed-jet locomotion for underwater soft robots.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
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...

Improved Quantum Artificial Fish Algorithm Application to Distributed Network Considering Distributed Generation.

Computational intelligence and neuroscience
An improved quantum artificial fish swarm algorithm (IQAFSA) for solving distributed network programming considering distributed generation is proposed in this work. The IQAFSA based on quantum computing which has exponential acceleration for heurist...