A centimeter-scale autonomous robotic fish actuated by IPMC actuator

2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 262-267

  Ye, Xiufen ^a   Su, Yudong ^a   Guo, Shuxiang ^a,b  

^a HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Infrared sensor; IPMC; Obstacle avoidance; Robotic fish

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AUTOMATION; BIOMIMETICS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; FISH; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; METALS; REMOTE CONTROL; RESEARCH; ROBOTS; TURNING; WEIGHT CONTROL;

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; CAUDAL FINS; INFRA-RED SENSORS; INFRARED SENSOR; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; IPMC; LIMITED SPACE; LOW SPEED; MICRO-CONTROLLER; OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE; ROBOTIC FISH; ROBOTIC FISHES; WIRELESS CONTROLLING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 49249099336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2007.4522171     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (13)

1. T. Fukuda, H. Hosokai, and I. Kikuchi, "Distributed type of actuators by shape memory alloy and its application to underwater mobile robotic mechanism," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1990, pp. 1316-1321.
2. L. J. Garner, L. N. Wilson, D. C. Lagoudas, and O. K. Rediniotis,"Development of a shape memory alloy actuated biomimetic vehicle,"Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 9, pp. 673-683, 2000.
3. M. Shahinpoor, "Conceptual design, kinematics and dynamics of swimming robotic structures using ionic polymeric gel muscles," Smart Materialsand Structures, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 91-94, 1992.
4. M. Mojarrad and M. Shahinpoor. "Biomimetic robot propulsion using polymeric artificial muscles," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1997, pp. 2152-2157.
5. S. Guo, T. Fukuda, and K. Asaka, "A new type of fish-like underwater microrobot," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 8, no.1,pp. 136-141, 2003.
6. B. Kim, D.-H. Kim, J. Jung, and J.-O. Park, "A biomimetic undulatory tadpole robot using ionic polymer-metal composite actuators." Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 14, pp. 1579-1585, 2005.
7. M. Shahinpoor and K. J. Kim, "Ionic polymer-metal composites: I.fundamentals," Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 10, pp. 819-833, 2001.
8. Y. Bar-Cohen. "Electric flex," IEEE Spectrum, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 29-33, 2004.
9. Huosheng Hu. Jindong Liu, Ian Dukes and George Francis, "Desing of 3D Swim Patterns for Autonomous Robotic Fish", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2006, pp:2406-2411.
10. Xiaobo Tan, Drew Kim, Nahan Usher and Dan Laboy, "An Autonomous Robotic Fish for Mobile Sensing," in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems, 2005, pp.5424-5429.
11. Na Seung Y., Shin, Daejung, Ali, M. Sowket, Kim Jin Y., Baek Seong-Joon, Lee Bae-Ho, "Estimation of distance, sizes and angles of obstacles for fish robots," WSEAS Transactions on Electronics, vol. 3, pp: 172-178, 2006.
12. Michael Sfakiotakis, David M. Lane, and J. Bruce C. Davies, "Review of Fish Swimming Modes for Aquatic Locomotion," IEEE Journal of Ocean Engineering, vol. 24, pp.237-252, 1999.
13. Xiufen Ye, Yudong Su, Shuxiang Guo "Infrared Motion Guidance and Obstacle Avoidance of an ICPF Actuated Underwater Microrobot," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, 2007, pp: 1851-1856.