Biorobotic fins for investigations of fish locomotion

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2120-2125

  Tangorra, James L ^a   Esposito, Chris J ^a   Lauder, George V ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUDAL FINS; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; KINEMATIC PATTERNS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; ROBOTIC DEVICES; TIME COURSE;

FORCED CONVECTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; KINEMATICS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PROPULSION; ROBOTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE);

EID: 76249118634     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5353953     Document Type: Conference Paper

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