Design and experiments of a robotic fish imitating cow-nosed ray

Journal of Bionic Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 120-126

  Cai, Yueri ^a   Bi, Shusheng ^a   Zheng, Licheng ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cow nosed ray; Flexible structure; Robotic fish; St Number; Thrust coefficient

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS RESULTS; BODY STRUCTURE; DRIVING PARAMETERS; NORMAL CONDITION; PNEUMATIC ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; PROPULSION PARAMETER; ROBOTIC FISH; ROBOTIC FISHES; SOFT-BODIES; SWIMMING VELOCITIES; THRUST COEFFICIENTS;

EXPERIMENTS; FISH; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77954263709     PISSN: 16726529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1672-6529(09)60204-3     Document Type: Article

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