Four flippers or two? Tetrapodal swimming with an aquatic robot

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 20-29

  Long Jr , John H ^a   Schumacher, Joseph ^a   Livingston, Nicholas ^a   Kemp, Mathieu ^b  

^a VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Nekton Research LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ROBOT; BIOLOGICALLY-INSPIRED ROBOTS; LINEAR ACCELERATIONS; ONBOARD PROCESSORS; POWER SUPPLY; RAPID STARTING; START ACCELERATION; UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

COSTS;

ROBOTS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EQUISETUM; FISH; HISTOLOGY; MOTION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; EQUISETUM; FISHES; MOTION; MOVEMENT; ROBOTICS; SWIMMING;

TETRAPODA;

EID: 33745728794     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/1/1/003     Document Type: Article

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