Free-locomotion of underwater vehicles actuated by ionic polymer metal composites

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 603-614

  Aureli, Matteo ^a   Kopman, Vladislav ^a   Porfiri, Maurizio ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Force measurement; hydrodynamics; intelligent actuators; underwater vehicle propulsion; underwater vehicles; vibrations

Indexed keywords

ADDED MASS; BIOMIMETIC UNDERWATER VEHICLE; COMBINING FORCE; FLUID ENVIRONMENT; HYDRODYNAMIC EFFECT; INTELLIGENT ACTUATOR; IONIC POLYMER METAL COMPOSITES; MODEL PREDICTION; MODELING FRAMEWORKS; REDUCED-ORDER MODELING; RIGIDBODY DYNAMICS; TIME VARYING; UNDERWATER VEHICLE PROPULSION; UNDERWATER VEHICLES; VEHICLE BODY; YAW MOTIONS;

ACTUATORS; AUTOMOBILE BODIES; BIOMIMETICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODAL ANALYSIS; ORGANIC CONDUCTORS; PROPULSION; SUBMERSIBLE MOTORS; SUBMERSIBLES; UNDERWATER BALLISTICS; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; UNDERWATER STRUCTURES; VIBRATION ANALYSIS; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT; WATER CRAFT;

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT;

EID: 77955231022     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2009.2030887     Document Type: Article

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