How fishes swim: Flexible fin thrusters as an EAP platform

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6524, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lauder, George V ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuator; EAP; Fin; Fin ray; Fish; Hydrodynamics; Kinematics; Polymer

Indexed keywords

BILAMINAR STRUCTURE; BIOROBOTIC FISH; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER; FIN RAYS; FIN THRUSTERS;

ACTUATORS; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; MANEUVERABILITY; POLYMERS; SHIP PROPULSION; WATER CRAFT;

FISH;

EID: 35148846009     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.714512     Document Type: Conference Paper

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