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Prototypical robotic fish with swimming locomotive configuration in fluid environment
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Date Issued
July 26, 2011
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Aquatic animal has always inspired many researchers' interest to develop such living creations' behavioral robots. Numbers of animal-liked aquatic robots have been invented in the past; however, very few works involved the study of full behavioral movement of these aquatic animals. This paper presents a study and design of a robotic fish that imitate natural aquatic animals' forms of locomotion by focusing on the apparatus of swimming performances. The main research focus is the behavioral movement of the propulsion and maneuvering of a robotic fish in a fluid environment. The robot could dynamically generate a series of behavior selection network to form the operational plan, avoiding obstacle as well as fish-liked maneuver; forward, backward and turning. This robot differs from other research that not only uses the tail peduncle to propel its movement but also use pectoral fin in stabilizing and maneuvering. The proposed paradigm has been implemented to develop a prototypical robotic fish. The experiments also illustrate the conventionality, and the robustness of such a fish-robot framework.
Citation
Imecs 2011 International Multiconference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2011, 2, 850-855, 2011