Determining the bodily motion of a biomimetic underwater vehicle under oscillating propulsion

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 983-988

  Guo, Jenhwa ^a   Chiu, Forng Chen ^a   Chen, Chih Chieh ^a   Ho, Yueh Sheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Biomimetic; GAs; Underwater vehicle

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION; SPEED CONTROL; SUBMERSIBLES; WAVE EQUATIONS;

BIOMIMETIC UNDERWATER VEHICLE; OSCILLATING PROPULSION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0345307663     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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