Bio-inspired unmanned undersea vehicle

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7644, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Smith, Colin F ^a   Priya, Shashank ^a,b  

^a State University   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bio inspired; Biomimetic; Composite; Energy; Force; Jellyfish; Shape memory alloy; UUV

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION MATERIALS; ANALYTICAL MODEL; AURELIA; BIO-INSPIRED; BIOMIMETIC COMPOSITES; BLOCKING FORCES; COMPRESSION FORCE; CONTRACTION FORCE; CURRENT-DRIVEN; ELECTRICAL POWER; LARGE STRAINS; MATRIX MATERIALS; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; POWER REQUIREMENT; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY; STRUCTURAL MATERIALS; THEORETICAL MODELS; UNMANNED UNDERSEA VEHICLES; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

ALLOYS; BELLS; BIOMIMETICS; BUILDING MATERIALS; DEFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT; SILICONES; SUBMERSIBLES;

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 77953520997     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.847761     Document Type: Conference Paper

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