Development and design of a robotic Manta Ray featuring flexible pectoral fins

2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 519-523

  Jun, Gao ^a   Shusheng, Bi ^a   Yicun, Xu ^a   Cong, Liu ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fish robot; Flexible pectoral fin; Oscillation motion

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETICS; BIPED LOCOMOTION; EXPERIMENTS; FISH; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; PROPULSION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SILICONES; SUBMERSIBLES; WATER CRAFT;

BEAT FREQUENCIES; FISH ROBOT; FISH ROBOTS; FLEXIBLE PECTORAL FIN; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; OSCILLATION MOTION; PECTORAL FINS; ROBOT FISHES; SILICONE RUBBER; SKELETAL STRUCTURES; UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE);

EID: 49249124373     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2007.4522216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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