Gait planning for steady swimming control of biomimetic fish robots

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 23, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 805-829

  Low, K H ^a   Zhou, Chunlin ^a   Zhong, Yu ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biomimetics; Fish robot; Gait planning; Parallel mechanism; Serial open chain mechanism

Indexed keywords

CAUDAL FINS; FISH PROTOTYPES; FISH ROBOT; FISH ROBOTS; FISH SWIMMING; GAIT CONTROL; GAIT PLANNING; GENERIC SOLUTIONS; KINEMATICS EQUATION; MECHANISM DESIGN; MOTOR CONTROL; MULTI-LINK; PARALLEL MECHANISM; PARALLEL MECHANISMS; SERIAL OPEN-CHAIN MECHANISM;

BIOMIMETICS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FISH; MEATS; MECHANISMS; ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 67650243006     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855309X443124     Document Type: Article

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