Towards the body shape design of a hydrodynamically stable robotic boxfish

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 5412-5417

  Kodati, Parasar ^a   Deng, Xinyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HYDRODYNAMICS; TURBULENT FLOW;

FLUID FLOW SIMULATION SOFTWARE; MICRO UNDERWATER VEHICLES; ROBOTIC BOXFISH; VORTEX GENERATION;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 34250675764     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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