Parametric study of the swimming performance of a fish robot propelled by a flexible caudal fin

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Low, K H ^a   Chong, C W ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE OF OSCILLATION; CONTROLLABLE PARAMETERS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; EFFICIENT EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS; EXPERIMENTAL PLATFORM; PERFORMANCE STUDY; STATISTICAL APPROACH; SWIMMING PERFORMANCE;

ASPECT RATIO; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FISH; ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIN (ORGAN); FISH; INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SHIP; SWIMMING;

ANIMAL FINS; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FISHES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ROBOTICS; SHIPS; SWIMMING;

EID: 78649722688     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/5/4/046002     Document Type: Article

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